Our submission to the Melbourne City Council opposes discontinuance of roads intended to provide space for new buildings that will radically alter the market’s traditional mode of operation.
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And to read the documentation that precedes this submission on QVM and other heritage campaigns click here.
read more...The winners were announce on Mon 14 October 2019 at the Victorian Arts Centre
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read more...Do you have a yen to trace your family? A desire to understand just why your home town grew like it did? A craving to understand the development of your favourite sport or your alma mater?
“The study of the past and telling its stories are critical to our sense of belonging, to our communities and to our shared future.” Opening paragraph of The Value of History Statement,
read more...The last bargain-hunters are sifting through the remnants of the Book Fair and tomorrow it will disappear so our wonderful Isaac Selby: Historian, Lecturer, Assassin! exhibition can be re-hung.
The Book Fair raised over $6,000 for the RHSV. I’d like to thank all those wonderful donors who gave us books throughout the year (the books were splendidly impressive this year). Without those donations we simply don’t have a Fair (and, as most of the books are sold at just $1,
read more...In this month’s CBD News you can read Cheryl Griffin’s wonderful ode to the Old Melbourne Cemetery which was a rich repository of information about our earliest settlers. Now gone for ever under the car park of QVM. CBD News can be picked up all over the CBD or you can find it online.
read more...Forty-two community history publications and projects from across Victoria have been shortlisted for the 2019 Victorian Community History Awards and Victorian Premier’s History Award.
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The feisty RHSV Heritage Committee has been active on many fronts recently with support for Buninyong & District Historical Society’s fight to save 400 trees including old-growth Manna gums and updates on the ongoing Queen Victoria Market campaign. You can read the submissions and more about the Heritage Committee’s work here.
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The 8 successful applicants for Holsworth Grants have been announced. The full list can be read here. The Holsworth Local Heritage Trust funds the print publication of history in regional and rural Victoria.
read more...In the lastest CBD News Cheryl Griffin muses nostalgically about a photo taken in 1900 of a crowd outside Nott’s Confectioners in Collins St. Nott’s boasted his sweets were “thoroughly wholesome, absolutely pure”! Read the full article …
read more...Today we were delighted to host a delegation from the National Audit Office of the People’s Republic of China who are visiting Australia.
They were intrigued by Richard Broome’s talk on Victoria’s indigenous history and loved the early Victorian legal document which Elisabeth Jackson showed them, from our manuscripts collection, which had some very detailed Chinese calligraphy.
The photos show Professor John Fitzgerald, from our Foundation committee, who is fluent in Chinese chatting over tea,
read more...Join us for a very different and very convivial history event, Fri 13 Sep 5:30pm.
Our hosts, David Dunstan and Ron Leslie, know their wine and their history and will be guiding us through both.
There will be a talk by David and a tasting of six wines organised by Ron, book-ended with some mood-lightening Prosecco.
More information and bookings.
read more...We are delighted that Jessica Scott has joined the RHSV team today as Marketing Co-ordinator. Jessica will be working on Monday and Wednesday and will be focusing on RHSV’s social media and reaching out to that large world of history enthusiasts and experts.
read more...Congratulations to Dr Andrew Lemon AM FRHSV
Andrew Lemon has been honoured, becoming a Member of the Order of Australia for services to community history and the racing industry, in the Queen’s Birthday list of honours.
Andrew Lemon has written sixteen books, four of which have won prizes, in subjects ranging from local history, education, sport and biography, his most recent being The Master Gardener (2018) on L. R Garnett, a principal of Geelong Grammar and a noted garden and environmental writer for The Age.
read more...On 29 May the Heritage Committee of the RHSV made a major submission to the Heritage Council of Victoria regarding planned amendments by the City of Yarra to Design and Development Overlays covering historic strip shopping centres. The RHSV has also been lobbying individual Councillors. We become aware, whilst preparing our submission, that the same approach was being applied not just by the City of Yarra but throughout the inner and middle suburbs of Melbourne.
read more...The Heritage Council of Victoria is currently reviewing arrangements for local heritage. On behalf of the Council, the RHSV surveyed its member societies, asking their thoughts on the current state of protection for heritage. We received 113 substantial responses. To learn more, read the report.
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