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SUMMARY:History Writers' Group with Cheryl Griffin
DESCRIPTION:The History Writers’ Group is for RHSV members only. It is led by Dr Cheryl Griffin and meets monthly on the 4th Tuesday of each month from 11:30am – 1pm. These events are hybrid – some people choose to meet at the RHSV and others choose to Zoom in. The capacity of the group is flexible. When we set this group up in early 2020 it was capped at 15 however\, with some Zooming in\, we can increase the cap slightly. It is not a group where you can dip in or out – it really requires commitment to the full year to achieve the most and build rapport and trust within the group. \nThis is a very interactive group which shares information and assists each other with problems they have encountered in their history writing. There are the occasional guest speakers.  Cheryl is not only a respected historian but also a splendid teacher. Her own writing is delightful and she has the rare skill of making history personal and engaging. \n 
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/history-writers-group-with-cheryl-griffin/
LOCATION:RHSV\, Gordon Moffatt Room\, 239 A'Beckett St\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:What's On
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SUMMARY:ZOOM BOOKCLUB: Brenda Niall's Friends and Rivals: Four Great Australian Writers: Barbara Baynton\, Ethel Turner\, Nettie Palmer\, Henry Handel Richardson
DESCRIPTION:Join respected biographer\, Brenda Niall\, in talking about four Australian women writing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—a time when stories of bush heroism and mateship abounded\, a time when a writing career might be an elusive thing for a woman. \nOur bookclub is thrilled to have Brenda join our discussion. It is a rare opportunity to learn so much more about the work and research behind the biography and to meet an author who has spent a lifetime researching men and women who have shaped Melbourne and our wider world. \nFriends and Rivals is a vivid and engaging account of the intersecting and entwined lives of Ethel Turner\, author of the much loved Seven Little Australians\, Barbara Baynton\, who wrote of the harshness of bush life\, Nettie Palmer\, essayist and critic\, and Henry Handel Richardson\, of The Getting of Wisdom and The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney fame. \nBrenda Niall illuminates a fascinating time in Australia’s literary history and brings to life the remarkable women who made it so. \n\nOur bookclub has flourished through times of COVID and we’ve been thrilled to welcome the authors of the books chosen to join our discussions. We will be able to have a few people join us in real life\, not just by Zoom\, so if you hanker after a bit of company\, a glass of wine and some cheese do join me at the RHSV and the others can Zoom in. \nIf you’d like to buy a copy of Friends and Rivals it is available in our bookshop: https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/product/friends-rivals-by-brenda-niall/ \n  \nThe Zoom details you need: \nBook Club: Brenda Niall\nTime: Jul 14\, 2020 17:30 Melbourne \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82515572588?pwd=ZlVMMTVFUUo5bGVZcXEwbW5xbW1rZz09 \nMeeting ID: 825 1557 2588\nPassword: 540501
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/zoom-bookclub-brenda-nialls-friends-and-rivals-four-great-australian-writers-barbara-baynton-ethel-turner-nettie-palmer-henry-handel-richardson/
LOCATION:RHSV\, Gordon Moffatt Room\, 239 A'Beckett St\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200609T173000
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SUMMARY:Zoom Bookclub: Richard Broome's Aboriginal Victorians
DESCRIPTION:Although our book club is very new we have set an extremely high bar in that we’ve had great discussions with the authors every time. And June will be no different. Our choice for June is Richard Broome’s Aboriginal Victorians and we are delighted that Richard has agreed to join us. It is hard to predict what will be happening COVID-wise in 4 weeks but I think we can safely say that the meeting will be conducted by ZOOM. We are allowed to meet in small numbers so members of the book-club are more than welcome to come to the RHSV and share a glass of wine\, and others can join too by Zoom. \nThis book is a fascinating and sometimes horrifying story of Aborigines in Victoria since white settlement\, from one of Australia’s leading historians. Early settlers saw Victoria and its rolling grasslands as Australia felix happy south land a prize left for Englishmen by God. However\, for its original inhabitants this country was home and life\, not to be relinquished without a fierce struggle. \nRichard Broome tells the story of the impact of European ideas\, guns\, killer microbes and a pastoral economy on the networks of kinship\, trade and cultures that various Aboriginal peoples of Victoria had developed over millennia. From first settlement to the present\, he shows how Aboriginal families have coped with ongoing disruption and displacement\, and how individuals and groups have challenged the system. With painful stories of personal loss as well as many successes\, Broome outlines how Aboriginal Victorians survived near decimation to become a vibrant community today. \nThe first history of black-white interaction in Victoria to the present\, Aboriginal Victorians traces the story of Aboriginal people through consultation and interviews with Aboriginal communities and families and rich historical research\, to produce a compelling and even-handed epic. It won the NSW Premier’s History Awards Australian History Prize (2006) and the Victorian Community History Awards Best Print Publication Award (2007)\, and was short-listed for the Human Rights Awards Non-Fiction Award (2005). \n‘Richard Broome is to be congratulated for writing this history in a style that is easy to read\, very informative and brings the past to the present.’ – Jim Berg\, JP\, Gunditjmara man\, founder and director of the Koorie Heritage Trust \n‘This finely crafted and wonderfully compassionate book deepens our understanding of the history of colonialism.’ – Bain Attwood\, Adjunct Professor\, Centre for Cross-Cultural Research\, Australian National University \n  \nThe Zoom log-in details which you’ll need are:                                     \nTopic: Richard Broome Author Event / Bookclub \nTime: Jun 9\, 2020 17:30 Canberra\, Melbourne\, Sydney \nJoin Zoom Meeting \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/89342478771?pwd=cEthS1pPd3lrZFVuZTB1em1qS3h0dz09 \nMeeting ID: 893 4247 8771 \nPassword: 090874                      \n  \n  \nTHE BOOK CHOSEN FOR JULY IS BRENDA NIALL’S Friends and Rivals: Four Great Australian Writers: Barbara Baynton\, Ethel Turner\, Nettie Palmer\, Henry Handel Richardson
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/zoom-bookclub-richard-broomes-aboriginal-victorians/
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SUMMARY:ZOOM History Bookclub: The Maddest Place on Earth
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted that Jill Giese\, the author of he Maddest Place on Earth\, will join our Zoom book club on the 12 May. \nDue to  the COVID-19 pandemic this group will be conducted by ZOOM. Do read the book now (what else do we have to do except read?) so you’ll be ahead of the game when life resumes and we will keep you updated as to when and how the ZOOM meeting can occur. \nOur bookclub usually meets monthly on the 2nd Tuesday of each month from 5:30pm – 7pm at the RHSV. We ponder the big issues and the small over a glass of wine and some cheese but for the forseeable future it will be in your own lounge-room. \n\nGold-fuelled Melbourne was booming\, but dwelling in the fault lines of the proud young colony was an alarming fact – Victoria had the highest rate of insanity in the world. Was it the antipodean sun\, gold mania\, excessive masturbation\, the heady pace of modern life? \nThe true story of colonial Victoria’s quest to cure insanity unfolds through the lives of three English newcomers – a gifted artist\, exiled from his homeland for his madness; an ambitious doctor\, bringing enlightened treatment ideals to his post in charge of the overflowing asylum; and a mysterious undercover journalist\, who sensationally exposed the lunatics’ plight in Melbourne’s press. \nAmid the clamour of fraught endeavours and maddened minds\, the story reveals unexpected hope\, creativity and ennobling humanity – and surprising contemporary relevance as we continue to grapple with this ancient human malady. \nWinner 2018 Victorian Premier’s History Award \nLonglisted 2018 Nib Literary Award \nJill Giese is a clinical psychologist and writer\, whose extensive career in mental health encompasses many years of clinical practice and executive roles in policy and advocacy. \n\nThe following bookclub on Tuesday 9 June will read Mannix by Brenda Niall
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/history-bookclub-the-maddest-place-on-earth/
LOCATION:RHSV\, Gordon Moffatt Room\, 239 A'Beckett St\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
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SUMMARY:ZOOM History Bookclub: Truganini
DESCRIPTION:We are thrilled that Professor Cassandra Pybus\, author of our book this month\, will be joining our bookclub for a discussion. Start preparing your questions!\nOur History Bookclub is not taking COVID-19 lying down and we will be convening through ZOOM. Unfortunately we cannot pour you a glass of red wine through ZOOM but we can still chat. If you would llike to join us – sign up below and we will send you the link. \nIn normal times the bookclub meets monthly on the 2nd Tuesday of each month from 5:30pm – 7pm at the RHSV and we ponder the big issues and the small over a glass of wine and some cheese. But you can start reading our next book in preparation for the temporary situation of ZOOMing in for discussions: \nTruganini Journey through the apocalypse by Cassandra Pybus. \nThe haunting story of the extraordinary Aboriginal woman behind the myth of ‘the last Tasmanian Aborigine’. \n‘For the first time a biographer who treats her with the insight and empathy she deserves. The result is a book of unquestionable national importance.’ – PROFESSOR HENRY REYNOLDS\, University of Tasmania\n\n‘At last\, a book to give Truganini the proper attention she deserves.’ – GAYE SCULTHORPE\, Curator of Oceania\, The British MuseumCassandra Pybus’s ancestors told a story of an old Aboriginal woman who would wander across their farm on Bruny Island\, in south-east Tasmania\, in the 1850s and 1860s. As a child\, Cassandra didn’t know this woman was Truganini\, and that Truganini was walking over the country of her clan\, the Nuenonne.For nearly seven decades\, Truganini lived through a psychological and cultural shift more extreme than we can imagine. But her life was much more than a regrettable tragedy. Now Cassandra has examined the original eyewitness accounts to write Truganini’s extraordinary story in full.Hardly more than a child\, Truganini managed to survive the devastation of the 1820s\, when the clans of south-eastern Tasmania were all but extinguished. She spent five years on a journey around Tasmania\, across rugged highlands and through barely penetrable forests\, with George Augustus Robinson\, the self-styled missionary who was collecting the survivors to send them into exile on Flinders Island. She has become an international icon for a monumental tragedy – the so-called extinction of the original people of Tasmania.Cassandra Pybus is an award-winning author and a distinguished historian. She is author of twelve books and has held research professorships at the University of Sydney\, Georgetown University in Washington DC\, the University of Texas and King’s College London. She is descended from the colonist who received the largest free land grant on Truganini’s traditional country of Bruny Island.\n\nThe following bookclub at a time to be determined will be Jill Giese’s award-winning book\, The Maddest Place on Earth. \nAnd on Tuesday 9 June\, Brenda Niall’s biography\, Mannix.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/history-bookclub-truganini-journey-through-the-apocalypse/
LOCATION:RHSV\, Gordon Moffatt Room\, 239 A'Beckett St\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:What's On
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SUMMARY:RHSV History Bookclub
DESCRIPTION:This will be the inaugural meeting of our History Bookclub. And the first book chosen is Chloe Hooper’s The Arsonist: A mind on fire.  \nThe bookclub will focus on Victorian history but there may be little deviations. It will be moderated at first but it is planned for it to be self-sufficient. We will organise occasional author visits and guest speakers. The group size will be capped. There will be monthly meetings – currently planned for the 2nd Tuesday of each month. A bookclub is\, of course\, focused on the book but the word ‘club’ in the title is there for a reason – we want these gatherings to be fun. \nIf you have queries\, please contact Rosemary / 9326 9288 / rosemary.cameron@historyvictoria.org.au \nThe Arsonist is available through the History Victoria Bookshop at the discounted price of $19 \nThe Arsonist was awarded a Judge’s Special Prize in the 2019 Victorian Community History Awards. The Judges’ citation is: \n“This powerful and suspenseful story of the 2009 bushfires in the Latrobe Valley is told from the perspectives of the police\, the victims\, the alleged perpetrator and his parents. The drama revolves around the accused\, Brendan Sokaluk from Churchill\, a social misfit with a cognitive disability. The author raises the issue as to what extent was he knowingly responsible for the inferno as she reflects on the nature of his disability and pyromania theories. \nThe backdrop is a disadvantaged community that experienced widespread unemployment after privatisation of the State’s energy grid and loss of community facilities at Yallourn and elsewhere owing to obeisance to coal mining. \nHooper uses a novelist’s skills to evoke the savage fury of the fire\, a monster unleashed on a hapless little community\, but her writing is anchored in fact; her sources are primarily the 2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission and court records. Her creative narrative represents a compelling way of telling the history of a catastrophe.”
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/rhsv-history-bookclub/
LOCATION:RHSV\, Gordon Moffatt Room\, 239 A'Beckett St\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
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SUMMARY:RHSV History Writers' Group inaugural meeting
DESCRIPTION:Writing can be a lonely occupation and there are only so many drafts one’s partner is prepared to read!   \nOur RHSV History Writers’ Group will meet monthly at the RHSV to peer-edit and share feedback with other writers of history. It is always helpful to be able to chew the fat with others on the same path and we all want to be better writers. Your writing project might be short or long\, academic history\, family history\, memoir\, community history\, creative non-fiction or even historical fiction. There will be occasional guest speakers who will cover subjects like research\, use of images\, publishing possibilities and professional editing.  \nAt the first meeting we will nut out the nitty-gritty of just how this group will operate and its program for the next few months. Some preliminary reading will be sent out prior to the first meeting. If you’d like to ‘check-it-out’ do register below and come along. Everyone is more than welcome to bring their lunch and we’ll have tea/coffee for all. Meetings will then be on the 4th Tuesday of each month. \nWe are thrilled that Cheryl Griffin will be the convenor. Cheryl has posed questions/issues below that could be discussed at the Writers’ Group: \nRespecting privacy. We gather information from many sources and roll them into a story\, but in doing so\, we may reveal secrets that have been hidden for years or expose ‘shameful’ episodes in a family or community’s lives. How far should we go to tell the ‘real’ story?  I delivered a paper at a Female Convict Research Centre Seminar that touched on this in 2014 – https://www.femaleconvicts.org.au/docs/seminars/Journeys_CherylGriffin.pdf \nDealing with culturally sensitive material. Some things will be considered culturally inappropriate in 2020 but were acceptable at the time. I’m thinking of racist\, sexist\, religious utterances. And\, in using this material\, will we be inciting further racism\, sexism etc. Or be seen to endorse the attitudes of the time? I’m working on a project with my niece’s husband relating to his paternal great-grandparents and a journey they made in Northern Rhodesia in 1930/31. We’re trying to decide how to negotiate the ‘minefield’ of the racist comments in his great-grandmother’s account of that journey and stitch together a story that doesn’t shy away from the issue but places the racism of the time into context. It’s a tricky one! \nFinding the extraordinary in the ordinary. There’s a piece of mine on Wikinorthia on my street that might provide an example. I use the historic present tense and speculate and imagine – that might spark some conversation. Don’t mind if it’s ripped apart\, as long as it provides a talking point – https://wikinorthia.net.au/the-extraordinary-in-the-ordinary-the-story-of-piera-street/ And there’s sure to be other work that would provide the same stimulus. \nHonest History. http://honesthistory.net.au/wp/ Now this website and the focus of the Honest Historians would definitely provide a talking point. Or we could go off at a tangent and address the question of how we provide balanced and honest history in the internet age when so many of the local histories\, for example\, were written in the pre-WWW\, pre-TROVE age? \n  \nCHERYL GRIFFIN attended La Trobe University where she majored in history and English. She later completed a Master of Education and a PhD in the field of the history of education. She worked as a secondary teacher for more than thirty-five years. She has wide-reaching historical interests and since her retirement has volunteered at the Female Convict Research Centre in Hobart\, at Coburg Historical Society\, at the Royal Historical Society of Victoria and at the GSV. She has written articles and presented papers on a wide variety of historical topics\, contributed to a number of books on the lives of Tasmanian female convicts and in 2017 wrote The Old Boys of Coburg State School Go to War for Coburg Historical Society.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/rhsv-inaugural-writers-group/
LOCATION:RHSV\, Gordon Moffatt Room\, 239 A'Beckett St\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
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