Royal Historical Society of Victoria
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Launch: Locating Australian Literary Memory
RHSV, Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaBrigid Magner's Locating Australian Literary Memory explores the cultural meanings suffusing local literary commemorations; orientated around eleven authors – Adam Lindsay Gordon, Joseph Furphy, Henry Handel Richardson, Henry Lawson, A. B. ‘Banjo’ Paterson, Nan Chauncy, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Eleanor Dark, P. L. Travers, Kylie Tennant and David Unaipon.
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ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW. MODULE 6: MAKING COLLECTIONS ACCESSIBLE
RHSV ZOOM by Invitation , AustraliaThe RHSV is offering a series of 6 linked workshops which cover cataloguing and digitisation. This series of workshops starts with basic concepts and builds in complexity. We have spaced the workshops so that participants have time in which to put into practice their new skills before the next workshop. Some participants will want to
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Exhibition launch: The Swamp Vanishes
RHSV, Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaBefore European settlers arrived in the Port Phillip district, a large wetland that lay between the Yarra River and the Moonee Ponds Creek sustained the indigenous people and the cultural traditions of the Kulin nation. While the wetland had initially been described in terms of beauty, within a few short years the swamp was noisome and reviled, and talk began of draining and reclamation. This exhibition traces the how a significant wetland vanished from sight.
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Workshop: Born Digital Documents
RHSV ZOOM by Invitation , AustraliaPresented by the Royal Historical Society of Victoria and Victorian Collections, this hands-on workshop provides an introduction to the principles of acquiring, storing, cataloguing and caring for born-digital material. This workshop is suitable for beginners who may have, or plan to acquire, digital images, media files or documents in their collection. Participants are asked to
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Seminar: EARLY MELBOURNE SUBURBS 1835-1880
RHSV ZOOM by Invitation , AustraliaThe RHSV and the Genealogical Society of Victoria are delighted to co-present this full-day seminar which will give participants a deep understanding of the forces and influences which have shaped Melbourne's early growth. The seminar will be opened with a overview by Gary Presland on how Melbourne's Geography shaped its development. Then the following historians
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Gippsland: Cataloguing and Digitisation series of six workshops
Federation University Gippsland Campus Library Northways Road, Churchill, VIC, AustraliaThe RHSV is offering a series of 6 linked workshops (three Saturdays over three months) which cover cataloguing and digitisation. This series of workshops is progressive, starting with basic concepts and building in complexity. We have spaced the workshops so that participants have time in which to put into practice their new skills before the
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Gippsland Workshop 1: COMPUTER CATALOGUING FOR ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS
Federation University Gippsland Campus Library Northways Road, Churchill, VIC, AustraliaThis is a workshop for those who are new to computers, and small organisations who do not have the resources to use cataloguing software. Using only Excel, we will demonstrate how to create a simple catalogue that still complies with international standards.
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Gippsland Workshop 2: USING CATALOGUING SOFTWARE
Federation University Gippsland Campus Library Northways Road, Churchill, VIC, AustraliaThis workshop is for small organisations that are going to start use cataloguing software. Participants will have the opportunity to create catalogue records using cataloguing software, and will learn how to move import an existing catalogue from Excel.
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John Marshall and Bounty Migration to Port Phillip
RHSV, Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaEmeritus Professor Graeme Davison AO, Chair of the History Council of Victoria, will launch Dr Liz Rushen's book, John Marshall: Shipowner, Lloyd's reformer and emigration agent. After the launch, Dr Rushen will deliver a paper which explores the significant role John Marshall played in the white settlement of the Port Phillip District
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Book launch: Gita: Melbourne’s First Yoga School – 65 years of history
RHSV, Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaDr Carolyn Rasmussen will be launching Fay Woodhouse's latest book, Gita: Melbourne’s First Yoga School – 65 years of history at the RHSV. This is the first published history of any yoga school in Australia and it provides a context to the development of yoga in Australia.
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