Women’s History Month Lecture

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

Professor Marilyn Lake AO