Upcoming Events
March 2019
Workshop: Scanning for beginners
A hands-on workshop for those who can use a computer and can navigate the internet but would like to learn how to use scanners.
Workshop: Keeping a digital collection for beginners
In this hands-on workshop we learn what should happen to a file after it has been digitised. Covering: file formats, image resolution, best practice file and folder naming, metadata, software, security and access.
April 2019
Waltzing Matilda: Australia’s Accidental Anthem. A forensic history.
This song that started as an accidental collaboration in outback Queensland in 1895 caused the death of a seven-year relationship and went on to inspire a nation during World War II, following Banjo Paterson's death in 1941.
Workshop: Publishing local history books for beginners
This seminar will cover all the basics of how to publish local history successfully.
Garryowen: the voice of early Melbourne
In 1888, Edmund Finn (alias ‘Garryowen’), Irish immigrant, journalist and raconteur, memorialized pre-Separation Melbourne in his Chronicles of Early Melbourne 1835 to 1852. The Chronicles are often regarded as the authority on the years of Lieutenant-Governor Charles La Trobe.
May 2019
WORKSHOP: STORAGE OF ARCHIVES. Venue: Castlemaine
This workshop will examine basic storage of archives and provide cost effective and simple tips for the storage of paper based and digital archives. Also, it will look at practical ideas for purpose built archival buildings.
Weston Bate Oration: Making History By Saving It
The RHSV is delighted that Kristin Stegley OAM, Chairman of the National Trust of Australia (Victoria), has accepted our invitation to deliver the 2019 Weston Bate Oration.
239 A'Beckett Street Melbourne, Victoria, 3000 
03 9326 9288 
office@historyvictoria.org.au 
Office: Weekdays 9am-5pm
