ZOOM - Royal Historical Society of Victoria

  • LUNCH TIME MARKETING

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    Social media has become the most influential and important virtual space to network, build a community, promote what you do, find assistance, sell books and events and connect. Social media networks are open to all and they are free, giving historical societies a chance to connect with whoever shares their interests. 

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  • Paving Our Ways: A History of the World’s Roads and Pavements

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    Paving our Ways provides a comprehensive international history of the world’s pavements, running from the earliest human settlements to the present day. It examines the earliest pavements in Egypt and Mesopotamia and then moves to North Africa, Crete, Greece and Italy, before a review of pavements used by the Romans in their magnificent road system. After its empire collapsed, Roman pavements fell into ruin. The slow recovery of pavements in Europe began in France and then in England.

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  • Cataloguing Clinic via Zoom with Jillian Hiscock

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    Cataloguing Clinic via Zoom with Jillian Hiscock   For this clinic, Jillian will be focusing on the cataloguing of objects (including medals). Please note that the clinic on Thu 23 Sept will start at 12:30pm not 11am. Jillian Hiscock, the RHSV Collections Manager, started these cataloguing clinics during the early days of COVID and they
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    Free
  • LUNCH TIME MARKETING: GO VIRTUAL FOR HISTORY MONTH

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    Social media has become the most influential and important virtual space to network, build a community, promote what you do, find assistance, sell books and events and connect. Social media networks are open to all and they are free, giving historical societies a chance to connect with whoever shares their interests. 

    Free
  • Cataloguing Clinic via Zoom with Jillian Hiscock

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    The cataloguing clinic is a relaxed gathering of people who are finding their way through the intricacies of cataloguing material in historical collections which, as we all know, fall between a library and a museum with sometimes a bit of art gallery thrown in. 

    Free
  • LUNCH TIME MARKETING

    LUNCH TIME MARKETING

    ZOOM Join from anywhere in the world

    Social media has become the most influential and important virtual space to network, build a community, promote what you do, find assistance, sell books and events and connect. Social media networks are open to all and they are free, giving historical societies a chance to connect with whoever shares their interests. 

  • PODCASTING 2 DAY MASTERCLASS

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    PODCASTING 2 DAY MASTERCLASS 3CR Community Radio will be running a 2 day masterclass in how to make podcasts for our RHSV members. The masterclass will be run through Zoom to enable our members across Victoria to attend but please note, because it is very hands on, the masterclass is limited to 15 participants. Today
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    $250.00
  • A New Look at the History of the Caulfield Racecourse: A talk by Andrew Lemon. via Zoom

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    In this talk, racing historian Andrew Lemon - author of the three volume The History of Australian Thoroughbred Racing - will look at the long history of Caulfield Racecourse and its place in the Australian story, and will reflect on the numerous campaigns and controversies surrounding this piece of crown land in the heart of metropolitan Melbourne.

  • Cataloguing Clinic via Zoom with Jillian Hiscock

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    Please note that the clinic held on Thursday 21st July has had a time change - it will now start at 12:30pm and run until 1:30pm. This month Jillian will be looking at the issues around cataloguing oral history material including aspects of permission. Jillian Hiscock, the RHSV Collections Manager, started these cataloguing clinics during
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  • Bory Latour-Marliac – the source of water lilies before and beyond Monet

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    Long before Mendel’s work was known, Bory Latour-Marliac (1830-1911) engineered daring water lily couplings with consummate skill, meticulous care and acute observation. His previously unrecorded letters reveal a horticultural world wide web into which he launched his finest hardy hybrids. From the outset he corresponded with Japan, South-East Asia and the United States. The earliest
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    $12