Lecture Podcasts

Between February and November, evening and lunchtime lectures are held at the Royal Historical Society of Victoria. Speakers address a wide range of topics relating to the history of Victoria.

2018 lectures are highlighted/outlined in blue.

Gary Presland
The Swamp Vanishes
Length: 17 mins
File Type: mp3
File Size: 19MB
When & Where: January 2020
4 Great Historians
A celebration of the contributions of Weston Bate and Don Gibb, plus presentations to Graeme Davison and Marian Quartley
Length: 36 mins
File Type: mp3
File Size: 33 MB
When & Where: February 2018
Simon Ambrose
The National Trust of Australia (Victoria)
Length: 1 hour, 2 mins
File Type: mp3
File Size: 57 MB
When & Where: RHSV AGM, May 2017
Robyn Annear
On Bearbrass and writing history
Length: 38 mins
File Type: mp3
File Size: 11.2 MB
When & Where: August 2013
Rozzi Bazzani
Hector Crawford
Length: 59 mins
File Type: mp3
File Size: 54 MB
When & Where: March 2017
Marilyn Bowler
‘How lucky my generation was’: Teaching studentships in Victoria 1950–78
Length: 28 mins
File Type: mp3
File Size: 12.1 MB
When & Where: PHA New Historians evening, July 2013
Margaret Bowman
The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Colonist: George Alexander Gilbert 1815–1877
Length: 36 mins
File Type: mp3
File Size: 15.3 MB
When & Where: CJ La Trobe Society – AGL Shaw lecture, June 2013
Judith Brett
Public Life, Private Man : Writing the Biography of Alfred Deakin
Length: 54:17 mins
File Type: mp3
File Size: 49.6 MB
When & Where: April 2018
Prof Ermeritus Richard Broome
Aboriginal activism and the Aborigines Advancement League
Length: 80 mins
File Type: mp3
File Size: 27 MB
When & Where: March 2014
Prof Emeritus Richard Broome
The making of ‘Marvellous Melbourne’ 1835-1890, the making of Remembering Melbourne 2015-2016
Length: 41 mins
File Type: mp3
File Size: 36 MB
When & Where: Melbourne Day Lecture, August 2017
Dr Judith Buckrich
Acland Street, St Kilda - Two ways of looking at St Kilda’s past. See also lecture by David Willis on this page.
Length: 29 mins
File Type: mp3
File Size: 27 MB
When & Where: October 2016
John Burch
Returning the Kulkyne
Length: 57 mins
File Type: mp3
File Size: 52 MB
When & Where: October 2017
Adam Cass
La Mama Theatre, 50 Years
Length: 48 mins
File Type: mp3
File Size: 43 MB
When & Where: July 2017
Carmel Cedro
Sweet Inspiration: the history and evolution of the Dolly Varden cake
Length: 22 mins
File Type: mp3
File Size: 9.5 MB
When & Where: PHA New Historians evening, July 2013
Celebrating 50 years of local history in Victoria (2012 Conference)
Chair: Professor Richard Broome, Panel: Assoc. Prof Don Gibb, Dr. John Lack, Dr Charles Fahey, Susan Priestley – The shock of the 1960′s: the influence of Professor Weston Bate on the writing of local history
Length:
File Type: mp3
File Size: 19.6 MB
When & Where: 2012
Celebrating 50 years of local history in Victoria (2012 Conference)
Chair: Dr Andrew Lemon, Panel: Rosalie Triolo, Carole Woods, Professor Janet McCalman Innovation and interrogation – local history in 2012
Length:
File Type: mp3
File Size: 43 kb
When & Where: 2012
Celebrating 50 years of local history in Victoria (2012 Conference)
Keith White & Darren Peacock : ‘Postcards from the past – an audiovisual case study – the Burrels of Arthur’s Seat’ and ‘Possibilities for the future’
Length:
File Type: mp3
File Size: 49 kb
When & Where: 2012
Maree Coote
The art of Melbourne
Length: 57 mins
File Type: mp3
File Size: 25.3 MB
When & Where: February 2013
Mimmo Cozzolino
What will the rare book of the future look like?
Length: 78 mins
File Type: mp3
File Size: 72 MB
When & Where: Melbourne Rare Book Week, July 2017
Annamaria Davine
Italians and Swiss: Italians on the Walhalla goldfield
Length: 39 mins
File Type: mp3
File Size: 6.8 MB
When & Where: October 2010
Paul de Serville
Observations on the upper classes in Melbourne, 1924-74
Length: 72 mins
File Type: mp3
File Size: 32 MB
When & Where: February 2014
Susanna De Vries
Melbourne Heroines of World War One
Length: 58:04 mins
File Type: mp3
File Size: 53.1 MB
When & Where: March 2015
Barry Dickens
Barry and The Fairies of Miller Street
Length: 46 mins
File Type: mp3
File Size: 18.3 MB
When & Where: October 2013
Peter Dowling
Secrets, Codes and the ‘Cable Girls’ of West Block
Length: 65 mins
File Type: mp3
File Size: 59 MB
When & Where: November 2017
Robert Flippen
The Vagabond in Virginia. See also lecture by Willa McDonald on this page.
Length: 25 mins
File Type: mp3
File Size: 22 MB
When & Where: September 2016
Rod Giblett
Lost and found : wetlands of Melbourne
Length: 42 mins
File Type: mp3
File Size: 38 MB
When & Where: Melbourne Day lecture, August 2015
Emma Gleadhill
Travelling trifles: the souvenirs of late eighteenth-century female British tourists
Length: 31:28 mins
File Type: mp3
File Size: 49 MB
When & Where: Emerging Historians Evening, June 2016
Peter Gregory
The world of the court reporter. In conversation with Andrew Lemon
Length: 1 hour 36 mins
File Type: mp3
File Size: 55 MB
When & Where: May 2017
Dr Madonna Grehan
Regulation of everyday life: implementing the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act in Victoria, c.1853 – 1858 combined La Trobe Society.
Length: 54:17 mins
File Type: mp3
File Size: 49.6 MB
When & Where: Royal Historical Society of Victoria Annual AGL Shaw Lecture, June 2015
Peter Gronn
Just as I am (Sir James Darling)
Length: 1 hour 23 mins
File Type: mp3
File Size: 76 MB
When & Where: February 2018
David Harris
Imagined natures, the Gippsland Lakes 1860s-1900: researching nineteenth century colonial relationships with the Gippsland Lakes
Length: 25:33 mins
File Type: mp3
File Size: 23.3 MB
When & Where: PHA Emerging Historians evening, July 2015
John Hirst
The Argus indexing project
Length: 42 mins
File Type: mp3
File Size: 7.1 MB
When & Where: Melbourne Day Lecture, August 2012
Hon. Dr David Kemp
Robert Menzies’ liberalism
Length: 42.20 mins
File Type: mp3
File Size: 42.4 MB
When & Where: February 2016
John Lack
with Margaret Atkins, Jacqui Donegan and David Thomson – An evening with Macpherson Robertson
Length: 1 hour 18 mins
File Type: mp3
File Size: 71.6 MB
When & Where: September 2015
Prof Marilyn Lake
‘Simply because I was an 18 year old hero’ : the Victorian Land Settlement Scheme. Introduced by Margie Anderson
Length: 50:25 mins
File Type: mp3
File Size: 46.1 MB
When & Where: May 2016
Andrew Lemon
Paying a visit to Henry Gyles Turner (1831-1920)
Length: 64 mins
File Type: mp3
File Size: 26.6 MB
When & Where: July 2013
Stuart Macintyre
Inaugural Weston Bate Oration on History and Heritage
Length: 65 mins
File Type: mp3
File Size: 59 MB
When & Where: May 2018
Iola Mathews
How to write an engaging family history or memoir
Length: 1 hour 5 mins
File Type: mp3
File Size: 60 MB
When & Where: February 2015
Dr Willa McDonald
The Vagabond in New Caledonia. See also lecture by Robert Flippen on this page.
Length: 25 mins
File Type: mp3
File Size: 22 MB
When & Where: September 2016
Ken McInnes
Launch of the digitized Hume & Hovell sketch map
Length: 42:38 mins
File Type: mp3
File Size: 39 MB
When & Where: November 2015
Malcolm McKinnon
The Farmer’s Cinematheque
Length:
File Type:
File Size:
When & Where: presented at the RHSV, February 2017
Ross McMullin
Australia’s gifted lost generation of World War I
Length: 45 mins
File Type: mp3
File Size: 7.8 MB
When & Where: November 2012
Ross McMullin
Disaster at Fromelles
Length: 53 mins
File Type: mp3
File Size: 53 MB
When & Where: April 2017
Ross McMullin
Never Forget Australia : Transformation at Villers Bretonneux
Length: 60 mins
File Type: mp3
File Size: 55 mb
When & Where: March 2018
Minna Muhlen-Schulte
Vergangenheitsbewältigung: struggle to come to terms with the past
Length: 23:05 mins
File Type: mp3
File Size: 21.1 MB
When & Where: PHA Emerging Historians evening, July 2015
Darren Peacock
& David Lawry – The Avenues of Honour Research Project The Avenues of Honour Research Project (with questions, *Some questions may be hard to hear)
Length: 1 hour 4 mins
File Type: mp3
File Size: 25.6 MB
When & Where: April 2013
Robert Perkins
with Andrew Lemon – In conversation with Robbie Perkins
Length: 73:26 mins
File Type: mp3
File Size: 66 MB
When & Where: April 2015
Gary Presland
The natural history of early Melbourne
Length: 57 mins
File Type: mp3
File Size: 52 MB
When & Where: Melbourne Day Lecture, introduced by Andrew Lemon, August 2016
Susan Priestley
The legacy and principles of bush nursing
Length: 48 mins
File Type: mp3
File Size: 43 MB
When & Where: September 2017
Prof Keir Reeves
The historical legacy of Victoria’s goldrushes
Length: 35 mins
File Type: mp3
File Size: 31 MB
When & Where: AGL Shaw Lecture, June 2017
Vicki Shuttleworth
Labassa – one historic property, 700 private lives
Length: 50:19 mins
File Type: mp3
File Size: 46 MB
When & Where: October 2015
Dr Marguerita Stephens
Assistant Protector William Thomas
Length: 50.01 mins
File Type: mp3
File Size: 47.8 MB
When & Where: AGL Shaw lecture, introduced by Dianne Reilly, June 2016
Paul Strangio
An Anti-Heroic Story: The History Of Political Labor In Victoria * Please note: there are some minor audio glitches in the second half of the lecture
Length: 56 mins
File Type: mp3
File Size: 21 MB
When & Where: May 2013
Barry Sturman
Up in Smoke: The colourful history of the Phoenix Fireworks Company in Australia
Length: 50:25 mins
File Type: mp3
File Size: 82 MB
When & Where: Melbourne Rare Book Week Lecture), May 2016
Hon. Chief Justice Marilyn Warren
Judge Walpole Willis’ Port Phillip Casebooks web launch
Length: 100 mins
File Type: mp3
File Size: 42 MB
When & Where: September 2014
Volkhard Werner
Victoria’s German community and the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71: unification twice over?
Length: 23:05 mins
File Type: mp3
File Size: 70 MB
When & Where: Emerging Historians Evening, June 2016
David Willis
The Majestic: Early apartment living in St Kilda. Two ways of looking at St Kilda’s past. See also lecture by Dr Judith Buckrich on this page.
Length: 27 mins
File Type: mp3
File Size: 26 MB
When & Where: October 2016
Clare Wright
The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka
Length: 71 mins
File Type: mp3
File Size: 62.8 MB
When & Where: November 2013