As part of History Week the Genealogical Society of Victoria is holding an information session especially for RHSV members and friends. For anyone contemplating researching their family this event is key. It is also of great interest for those undertaking more general research as family research skills and resources can be used to create histories for any characters, not just your family.

The Royal Historical Society of Victoria is hosting a A SPARKLING MORNING TEA TO CELEBRATE THE 90th BIRTHDAY OF Professor John Riddoch Poynter AO On Friday 8 November 2019 at 10:30am for 11am  at the rooms of the RHSV, Ground Floor, 239 A’Beckett Street, Melbourne We invite the family, friends, colleagues and students of Professor
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We are honoured that our last major lecture for 2019 will be delivered by Professor Katie Holmes, Director, Centre for the Study of the Inland and co-author of the soon-to-be-published Mallee Country: Land, People, History together with Richard Broome, Charles Fahey and Andrea Gaynor. In the early 1890s the Victorian Mallee was seen as a
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The Royal Historical Society of Victoria and Monash University Publishing are delighted to invite you the launch of Mallee Country: Land, People, History By Richard Broome, Charles Fahey, Andrea Gaynor and Katie Holmes Mallee Country will be launched by Tom Griffiths, Emeritus Professor of History, ANU. With a special performance by the celebrated gum leaf
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The RHSV invites our members and friends to attend the launch of our latest book, Melbourne's Twenty Decades.  To be launched by Emeritus Laureate Professor Stuart Macintyre AO FAHA FASSA.

This event booked out in less than 24 hours! We hope to organise more tours in the New Year so keep an eye out for further announcements. The RHSV is organising a special historical tour of The Melbourne Observatory for our members. The Melbourne Observatory was constructed in 1861–63, and expanded until 1902 to eventually
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We are delighted to present a talk by Catherine Gill who has been volunteering at the RHSV. Catherine writes, "As part of my recently completed Masters in Cultural Materials Conservation, I was given opportunity to study the portrait of Jack Wetherly.  The original artwork was painted in 1840 by Thomas Napier.  Records at the RHSV
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For our volunteers and staff to celebrate a wonderful year working together at the RHSV.