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2025 Billibellary Indigenous History Lecture: Breaking Australian Rules in Sport and History

RHSV Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett St, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

We are delighted to invite our members and friends to join us for the 4th annual Billibellary Indigenous History Lecture to be delivered by distinguished academic Professor Barry Judd. The Indigenous sport of Australian (Rules) Football is widely regarded as the national game at least in Melbourne and the State of Victoria. First codified in
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Get Tickets $10.00 – $20.00

AUTOMOTIVE HISTORIANS AUSTRALIA INC HONORS REG HUNT

RHSV Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett St, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Reg Hunt, motor dealer, racing driver, collector and property investor was one of Melbourne’s best known and successful automobilists during his working life. Maserati historian, enthusiast and long-time friend, David Zeunert, will discuss with Mark Bissett Reg’s life exploits following a light lunch at the Royal Historical Society of Victoria.

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Curator’s talk: Yarra Birrarung Artists, Writers and the River exhibition

RHSV Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett St, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Join the curator, Dr Judith Buckrich, of our current exhibition Yarra Birrarung: Artists, Writers and the River in a behind-the-scenes talk about the exhibition. The exhibition is an illustrated history of life on the Yarra. Through the lens of artists and writers, the exhibition explores how life has flourished on the river, including recreation, industry and land use, as well as infrastructure, natural history and social history.

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CATALOGUING CLINICS 2025

ZOOM Join from anywhere in the world

Join Jillian Hiscock, the RHSV Collections Manager, each month in this informative and easy-going Zoom forum on all aspects of cataloguing collections for historical societies. Jillian has a different topic each month and is happy to be guided by those who attend as to what they would like covered in upcoming clinics. Bring your questions
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Feminists to felons: exhibiting women’s history

RHSV Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett St, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Each year, to celebrate Women's History Month, the RHSV offers our Women's History lecture, part of our Distinguished Lecture series. Museums in the 1970s were largely masculine preserves, staffed almost
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Get Tickets $10.00 – $20.00