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Food, Fun and Flag Wavers: Memories of the Lygon Street Festa Exhibition
Join CO.AS.IT. in celebrating History Week 2019 with a joyful walk down memory lane, exploring the fun times that were had by young and old at the Lygon Street Festa over the last 40 years. This colourful exhibition brings together for the first time images, objects and stories from the CO.AS.IT. Italian Historical Society Collection
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10:00 am
Walking tour: Batmania
RHSV researcher, Fiona Graham, has put together a new guided walking tour of the south-western corner of the CBD - today it is a slightly raffish, down-at-heel part of town but back in 1835 it was where everything was unfolding. Come and learn something new about your city.
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New Members welcome and Higinbotham Lecture
An event to welcome New Members and introduce them to the many facets of the RHSV followed by drinks and Geraldine Moore's lecture on George Higinbotham.
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Lecture: Geraldine Moore on key events in the life of George Higinbotham
George Higinbotham was a highly influential politician in colonial Victoria. One of his contemporaries described him as a man of ‘dash and daring’ who ‘won from privilege and class ground that they have never since been able to recover.’ Even today debate rages about his character and his legacy. Some see him as a visionary
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