The concept of Women’s History Month was revived by the Royal Historical Society of Victoria during 2019 with support from several interested organisations. Every year the RHSV hosts a lecture to celebrate Women’s History Month.
2025
Margaret Anderson, Feminists to felons: exhibiting women’s history
2024
Professor Joy Damousi AM FASSA FAHA, Women’s humanitarian work is never done: Women humanitarians and war child refugees in the 20th century
2023
Iola Mathews OAM, Flos Greig, Australia’s first woman lawyer
2022
Janet McCalman AC FAHA FASSA, Unprotected: Aboriginal, Convict and Poor women in Colonial Victoria: or how everything bad was made worse by being female
2021
Carole Woods OAM, Vera Deakin in War and Peace
2020
Professor Lynette Russell AM
Lecture was to be delivered on 17 March 2020. Unfortunately the event had to be cancelled owing to the limitations on public gatherings arising form the COVID-19 pandemic, but Professor Russell kindly agreed to provide the text for publication in the Victorian Historical Journal Vol 91, Number 1, June 2020
2019
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