SEEKING VOLUNTEERS WITH LIBRARY SKILLS

Librarian / Library Technician

Jillian Hiscock, our Collections Manager, is always looking for volunteers with library skills and experience. She says …

If you like order and making sure that items in a collection are findable, we are looking for volunteers familiar with library operations, as a librarian or library technician to work with and assist the Collections manager to :

  • Accession, catalogue and maintain collection records [books,
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SAVE THE DATE: 18 + 19 May 2024 FOR RHSV’s REGIONAL SEMINAR WEEKEND IN MORTLAKE

We are delighted that Mortlake & District Historical Society will be hosting our first regional seminar for 2024.

We will release the full program and booking details shortly.

In the meantime, why not plan a weekend, or longer, in the Western District?

Mortlake is an historic settlement which lies at the base of Mount Shadwell, an extinct volcano. The town, which has a large number of impressive bluestone buildings,

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BOOKSHOP OPENS LATE FOR CHRISTMAS SHOPPING

On Monday 4 December, Tuesday 5 December and Wednesday 6 December 2023 the RHSV History Victoria Bookshop will stay open late for Christmas shopping.

The bookshop is stuffed to the gills with great books on every and all aspects of Victorian history – there is something for everyone.

We’ll be serving some Christmas cheer and there will be free wrapping service too. Come and join us.

Check out books on shipwrecks or crime.

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BIRCHIP REGIONAL SEMINAR HIGHLIGHTS

The Birchip Regional Seminar last weekend (May 19th – 21st) was a great success!

The weekend began on Friday with a warm welcome from the Nullawil Historical Society Heritage Museum, where visitors were treated to a carefully curated display of their museum and collection, along with afternoon tea and a marvelous dinner attended by Helen Laffin and historical society representatives from as far as Geelong. The evening included an ‘overall positive’ discussion of the Nullawil Silo Art project,

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RHSV SEEKS ARCHIVIST

The RHSV is seeking a part-time Archivist to work on project for 89 days, across 2023.

In late 2022 the RHSV took ownership of a large social history collection, the Jones Collection. It is a wide-ranging, deeply rich collection that documents a century of one family’s life in the Melbourne suburb of Coburg from the 1920s as well as from earlier generations. Its significance centres around the unusual survival of a relatively intact collection relating to the day-to-day lives of a family of modest means,

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RHSV CLOSED FROM 12PM FRIDAY 23 DECEMBER

 

 

The RHSV will close for 2 weeks over the Christmas / New Year period.

We close on Friday 23 December at 12 noon and reopen on Monday 9th January.

Bookshop – order on-line before Friday 16th of December for delivery by Christmas or by Wednesday 21st December if you opt for Express Post. Click and collect or just browsing the bookshop at 239 A’Beckett St is available until 12 noon on Friday 23 December.

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QUEEN VIC MARKET: NOW IT’S “PODS”

The next stage in the seemingly endless attempt to rob the Queen Victoria Market of its character and role as a traditional fresh food market has surfaced. Following the approval of a 21 storey building at 432-450 Queen Street, the City of Melbourne has applied to Heritage Victoria to use half the historic 1878 fruit and vegetable sheds (A-E) for hospitality, loading docks and a fenced-off area for storage. Further, the application requests the addition of modified shipping containers or ‘pods’ 2.4m wide by 2.6m high and either 3m or 6m long ‘painted monochromatically in one of three colours: cream,

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RHSV seeks BOOKKEEPER

The RHSV is looking to appoint a new book-keeper as soon as possible. We’d like the new book-keeper to start by Monday 9th May 2022.

We are seeking a motivated, experienced, part-time book-keeper to work in a small team. Life is never dull or repetitive at the RHSV and this position would suit someone who has worked in small business.

Although we are small, the RHSV is a complex organisation in terms of the range of activities in which we are involved.

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RHSV open again

We are back working in the Drill Hall and open to the public who want to see our exhibition Tales from the MacRobertson International Air Races, buy books in the bookshop (always available online), use our collection for research or attend an event.

However, in line with government restrictions, masks must be worn within the building and it is mandatory that everyone checks in with our QR code. There are also social distancing rules which limit us to one person per 4 sqm.

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Today in The Age: A new start for Australian history

The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald  newspapers (17 July 2021) published Richard Broome’s plea for Australian History to be given a ‘fair go’ but was unable to fit in this important paragraph:

“Fifteen teachers, academics and Cambridge University Press mounted a rescue mission, creating a four volume series, Analysing Australian History (2021), to provide texts for the new Year 12 Victorian Study Design in 2022. Some proceeds go to the Indigenous Reading Project.”

You can read Richard’s article below or by clicking on this link to The Age.

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HOLSWORTH GRANTS: closing date 31st July

Grants of up to $2,000 are available for the publication of any specific or general local history or natural history in rural and regional Victoria. The Grant is intended for small organisations with an interest in publishing works of historical value, even where the organisation has little or no experience of self publishing work. Joint projects encompassing several groups or annual/special edited journals incorporating submitted historical articles from a wide community are encouraged.

For guidelines and an application form visit our website: https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/programs/holsworth-local-heritage-grants/

Closing date: 31st July 2021

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