Our Event Calendar contains all of events of the RHSV (exhibitions, seminars, lectures), historical societies and organisations throughout Victoria. It’s free to add your group’s event to the RHSV Events Calendar as long as it is about Victorian History or an Australian History themed event occurring in Victoria. Note: recurring and lengthy programs such as exhibitions open for weeks are not permitted. Read the Terms of Use page for more information. You will need to be a member & logged in first (you can create a user account if you don’t have one).* Once logged in you can submit your event online and appropriate events will be approved by the RHSV Librarian.
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NAA webinar: How to preserve your own records
NAA webinar: How to preserve your own records
Join us for this free webinar, our first co-presentation with the National Archives of Australia for 2025.
This preservation and records handling webinar will provide practical advice for family historians and small records collections.
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Book Launch: Our Journeys in Australia 1947 -1977
Book Launch: Our Journeys in Australia 1947 -1977
The Polish Museum and Archives in Australia Inc. (PMAA) warmly invites you to the book launch of "Our Journeys in Australia 1947 -1977", on Saturday 1st February 2025 at Tobruk House, Melbourne, at 2pm.
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Think Tank: orientation/training programme for young people joining historical societies
Think Tank: orientation/training programme for young people joining historical societies
Murchison & District Historical Society wants to develop an orientation/training programme for young people - i.e. 14 - 18yo's - to become volunteers for their historical society. The RHSV thinks that this idea is worth putting effort into and seeing if we can develop a template that can be adopted by many historical societies. To facilitate this I’ve organised a Zoom meeting for 11am Tuesday 4 February 2025 for everyone interested to get together and share ideas and experiences and to work out what can be done. So please do join Kay and I on Zoom and bring your ideas and enthusiasm and we'll see what we can nut out together.
Transgender Australia: A History Since 1910
Transgender Australia: A History Since 1910
Join authors Noah Riseman and Sam Elkin as they enter a conversation about trans history. They will weave together personal experience with historical examples to discuss changes to trans life
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Collecting Egyptology and Ancient History
Collecting Egyptology and Ancient History
Please join us on Thursday Feb 6th for the first Antique Collectors Club meeting of 2025. We are going Egyptian for the evening. Jennifer J. from Ankh Antiquarian Books is
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Pre-European Indigenous culture in the St Kilda area with Gary Presland
Pre-European Indigenous culture in the St Kilda area with Gary Presland
The St Kilda area is part of the traditional lands of the Yalukit willam clan. As part of the Kulin nation, the Yalukit willam were connected to clans as far away as the Murray River. Dr Gary Presland will detail the nature of these connections and elaborate on how the Yalukit willam made a living, at the same time honouring and caring for their country.
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Labassa Open Day
Labassa Open Day
Although more than 700 people have lived at Labassa, it has miraculously survived with most of its opulent Victorian era decoration intact. Come and experience the complex richness of Labassa’s
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2025 Billibellary Indigenous History Lecture: Breaking Australian Rules in Sport and History
2025 Billibellary Indigenous History Lecture: Breaking Australian Rules in Sport and History
We are delighted to invite our members and friends to join us for the 4th annual Billibellary Indigenous History Lecture to be delivered by distinguished academic Professor Barry Judd. The
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AUTOMOTIVE HISTORIANS AUSTRALIA INC HONORS REG HUNT
AUTOMOTIVE HISTORIANS AUSTRALIA INC HONORS REG HUNT
Reg Hunt, motor dealer, racing driver, collector and property investor was one of Melbourne’s best known and successful automobilists during his working life. Maserati historian, enthusiast and long-time friend, David Zeunert, will discuss with Mark Bissett Reg’s life exploits following a light lunch at the Royal Historical Society of Victoria.
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Lithographers, Artists and Painters: a guided walking tour of St Kilda Cemetery
Lithographers, Artists and Painters: a guided walking tour of St Kilda Cemetery
The next Friends of St Kilda Cemetery guided walking tour will be held on Sunday 23 February 2025 at 1.45pm for a 2.00pm start. Please meet at the Dandenong Road
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Curator’s talk: Yarra Birrarung Artists, Writers and the River exhibition
Curator’s talk: Yarra Birrarung Artists, Writers and the River exhibition
Join the curator, Dr Judith Buckrich, of our current exhibition Yarra Birrarung: Artists, Writers and the River in a behind-the-scenes talk about the exhibition. The exhibition is an illustrated history of life on the Yarra. Through the lens of artists and writers, the exhibition explores how life has flourished on the river, including recreation, industry and land use, as well as infrastructure, natural history and social history.
Engineering Heritage Victoria: Matthew Churchward
Engineering Heritage Victoria: Matthew Churchward
Matthew Churchward, Senior Curator, Engineering and Transport at Museums Victoria will be delivering this lecture which is our first in partnership with Engineering Heritage Victoria in 2025. Matthew says on
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Reel History: A Journey Through Victoria’s Cinematic Past
Reel History: A Journey Through Victoria’s Cinematic Past
Step into the golden age of cinema at the PMI Victorian History Library's immersive film evening, presented by the Cinema and Theatre Historical Society (CATHS). This captivating event will transport
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Family History Workshop: Learn How to Publish Your Family History
Family History Workshop: Learn How to Publish Your Family History
Are you sitting on a treasure trove of family stories, longing to share them with future generations? Join us at the PMI Victorian History Library for an enlightening one-day workshop
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CATALOGUING CLINICS 2025
CATALOGUING CLINICS 2025
Join Jillian Hiscock, the RHSV Collections Manager, each month in this informative and easy-going Zoom forum on all aspects of cataloguing collections for historical societies. Jillian has a different topic
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