Upcoming Events
July 2019
Victoria’s Earliest Potteries
We are delighted that Gregory Hill, a leading authority on both Australian Colonial Pottery and Australian Art Pottery, will be delivering a lunch-time lecture on Victoria’s Earliest Potteries.
ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW: Cataloguing and digitisation workshop series.
A series of 6 graded workshops covering all you need to know on cataloguing and digitisation. Spaced over 6 months to give participants time to put into practice their new skills before tackling the next topic.
August 2019
Workshop: Making Archival Boxes
Wed 7 August 11am - 1pm Wed 11 September 11am - 1pm David Thompson is holding two workshops on how to make archival boxes. Using archival quality material the boxes are custom made for each book or object. Over the years David and other volunteers have made all the beautiful boxes the RHSV uses to protect our more fragile items. The workshops are limited to 4 persons each and they will be…
Celebrating Engineering History: a mini-conference
Victoria has many outstanding world-leading engineering works, but many of these achievements are not well documented, or have been forgotten, and need to be celebrated. Four papers will be presented focussing on the history of some of the significant engineering works in Victoria.
Trivia-au-go-go
Andrew Lemon is once again going to put us to the test. So, fancy yourself a bit of a history buff? Of course you do! Time to get competitive and pit yourself against all those other history buffs at the RHSV's world-famous Trivia-au-go-go.
Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria: Nature, Culture and Science
Professor Tim Entwisle, Director and Chief Executive, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria will talk about the history of the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, about what makes a modern botanic garden and about his plans for the Melbourne Gardens which centre around the three pillars of culture, nature and science.
September 2019
ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW: Cataloguing and digitisation workshop series.
A series of 6 graded workshops covering all you need to know on cataloguing and digitisation. Spaced over 6 months to give participants time to put into practice their new skills before tackling the next topic.
Workshop: Making Archival Boxes
Wed 7 August 11am - 1pm Wed 11 September 11am - 1pm David Thompson is holding two workshops on how to make archival boxes. Using archival quality material the boxes are custom made for each book or object. Over the years David and other volunteers have made all the beautiful boxes the RHSV uses to protect our more fragile items. The workshops are limited to 4 persons each and they will be…
RHSV Wine-Tasting
Join us for a very different and very convivial history event. Our hosts, David Dunstan and Ron Leslie, know their wine and their history and will be guiding us through both. A talk by David and a tasting of six wines organised by Ron will be book-ended with some mood-lightening Prosecco.
October 2019
ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW: Cataloguing and digitisation workshop series.
A series of 6 graded workshops covering all you need to know on cataloguing and digitisation. Spaced over 6 months to give participants time to put into practice their new skills before tackling the next topic.
November 2019
ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW: Cataloguing and digitisation workshop series.
A series of 6 graded workshops covering all you need to know on cataloguing and digitisation. Spaced over 6 months to give participants time to put into practice their new skills before tackling the next topic.
ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW: Cataloguing and digitisation workshop series.
A series of 6 graded workshops covering all you need to know on cataloguing and digitisation. Spaced over 6 months to give participants time to put into practice their new skills before tackling the next topic.
December 2019
ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW: Cataloguing and digitisation workshop series.
A series of 6 graded workshops covering all you need to know on cataloguing and digitisation. Spaced over 6 months to give participants time to put into practice their new skills before tackling the next topic.
239 A'Beckett Street Melbourne, Victoria, 3000 
03 9326 9288 
office@historyvictoria.org.au 
Office: Weekdays 9am-5pm
