BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Royal Historical Society of Victoria - ECPv6.15.12.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Royal Historical Society of Victoria
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:Australia/Melbourne
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+1100
TZOFFSETTO:+1000
TZNAME:AEST
DTSTART:20200404T160000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+1000
TZOFFSETTO:+1100
TZNAME:AEDT
DTSTART:20201003T160000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+1100
TZOFFSETTO:+1000
TZNAME:AEST
DTSTART:20210403T160000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+1000
TZOFFSETTO:+1100
TZNAME:AEDT
DTSTART:20211002T160000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+1100
TZOFFSETTO:+1000
TZNAME:AEST
DTSTART:20220402T160000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+1000
TZOFFSETTO:+1100
TZNAME:AEDT
DTSTART:20221001T160000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+1100
TZOFFSETTO:+1000
TZNAME:AEST
DTSTART:20230401T160000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+1000
TZOFFSETTO:+1100
TZNAME:AEDT
DTSTART:20230930T160000
END:DAYLIGHT
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210312
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220318
DTSTAMP:20260421T075229
CREATED:20210304T060612Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220125T092035Z
UID:10000125-1615507200-1647561599@www.historyvictoria.org.au
SUMMARY:Tales from the MacRobertson International Air Races
DESCRIPTION:To celebrate Victoria’s centenary in 1934\, Macpherson Robertson sponsored a great air race from England to Melbourne. There were originally 20 entrants of which only 12 arrived in Melbourne. The British winning entrants took a whisker under 3 days\, the last plane to arrive took some 4 months.\nThe Royal Historical Society of Victoria is mounting an exhibition which takes a close look at the entrants in the races (there were two races run concurrently – a speed race and a handicap race) including the Dutch entrant\, the Uiver. The Uiver (stork) is the most famous of the entries even though it came second. It was forced by bad weather to make an emergency landing in Albury where the locals used the town’s lights to spell A L B U R Y in morse code and then created a make-shift aerodrome on the racetrack using car headlights to con the plane down. Macpherson Robertson always maintained that the Uiver\, a commercial KLM flight that went to Batavia in the Dutch East Indies with a little extra hop to Australia\, came closest to his ideal as Robertson sponsored the race to encourage commercial flight not speed. \nThe first aircraft to finish was the De Havilland DH-88 Comet Grosvenor House\, a specially- designed racing aircraft flown by Charles W. A. Scott and Tom Campbell Black. Both pilots were much feted in Melbourne. Photos show a handsome pair being mobbed by thousands. The adulation didn’t last\, Campbell Black was killed by a plane propeller just 2 years later and Scott suicided. \nHarold Brook was the pilot with the least experience – barely the minimum 100 hours. He had a paying passenger\, the 28-year old Miss Ella Lay\, who knitted her way to Australia. She was a pilot herself and the only woman to travel the full race distance from Mildenhall in England to Melbourne. Ella stayed on in Melbourne\, took up nursing\, and in 1941 enlisted in the Australian Army Nursing Service in the very building where the exhibition is being held (the former Army Medical Corps Drill Hall). Ella died in 2005\, aged 99. The Times printed her obituary. \nThe race generated many more fabulous stories including C. J. “Jimmy” Melrose who at 21 was the youngest pilot and one of the few Australians. Jimmy was funded by his mother and his De Havilland Puss Moth was christened My Hildergarde in her honour. He too died\, too young\, just two years later in a plane crash. \nThe last plane to arrive was piloted by Ray Parer and Godfrey Hemsworth and funded by New Guinea miners. Another entry was owned by well-known Australian pioneer aviator Horrie Miller who at the time was managing director of MacRobertson-Miller Aviation. He engaged James Wood and Don Bennett to fly the race however they came unstuck in Aleppo. As Bennett wrote in his autobiography\, they “… hit the ground with a fair wallop and the undercarriage collapsed; down she went and the nose went in as we whipped over on our back. I was in the tail of the machine and my velocity from one end of the cabin to the other was remarkable. Even more astounding was the degree of “concertina-ing” of my body which took place at the far end.” That was the end of their race.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/tales-from-the-macrobertson-international-air-races/
LOCATION:RHSV\, Gallery Downstairs\, 239 A'Beckett Street\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Race-outside-poster.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Royal Historical Society of Victoria":MAILTO:office@historyvictoria.org.au
GEO:-37.8107817;144.9562417
X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=RHSV Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett Street Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=239 A'Beckett Street:geo:144.9562417,-37.8107817
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20211013T110000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20211013T120000
DTSTAMP:20260421T075229
CREATED:20210929T012208Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210929T012222Z
UID:10000243-1634122800-1634126400@www.historyvictoria.org.au
SUMMARY:Who Lived in My House?
DESCRIPTION:Ever wondered who the past occupants of your house were? Or interested in researching your house history? Come along to this Heritage Help session and learn how to use research tools to find the history of houses and properties in Hobsons Bay and Melbourne.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/who-lived-in-my-house/2021-10-13/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Victorian History Events
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Who-lived-in-my-house-3.png
ORGANIZER;CN="Hobsons Bay Libraries":MAILTO:heritage@hobsonsbay.vic.gov.au
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20211013T110000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20211013T120000
DTSTAMP:20260421T075229
CREATED:20211007T225853Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211007T231056Z
UID:10000245-1634122800-1634126400@www.historyvictoria.org.au
SUMMARY:Who Lived in My House?
DESCRIPTION:Ever wondered who the past occupants of your house were? Or interested in researching your house history? Come along to this Heritage Help session and learn how to use research tools to find the history of houses and properties in Hobsons Bay and Melbourne. \nThis session will run online.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/who-lived-in-my-house-2/
LOCATION:Online
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Who-lived-in-my-house-3.png
ORGANIZER;CN="Hobsons Bay Libraries":MAILTO:heritage@hobsonsbay.vic.gov.au
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20211013T180000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20211013T190000
DTSTAMP:20260421T075229
CREATED:20210921T135826Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211013T050128Z
UID:10000239-1634148000-1634151600@www.historyvictoria.org.au
SUMMARY:The 1789 Smallpox Plague – exhuming the truth
DESCRIPTION:The 1789 Smallpox Plague – exhuming the truth\nIn April 1789 a smallpox plague suddenly broke out at Sydney Cove. It swept around the entire continent and killed up to 70% of the Indigenous peoples in the Sydney area\, but only one colonist. Despite the fact that the First Fleet was well documented\, the cause of the pandemic has remained a mystery. However\, after years of research\, author Jim Poulter believes he has finally cracked the case\, and he believes that it was deliberate genocide. Jim says the key to solving the mystery lay in the identity of the one sailor who died in the plague. In his controversial talk and Powerpoint presentation\, Jim will take you step by step through his research showing how he believes that the Lieutenant Governor\, Major Robert Ross\, hatched\, executed and concealed his genocidal plot. \nJim Poulter is a history author whose family first settled in the Yarra Valley in 1840 and established enduring relationships with the local Aboriginal community. Jim grew up steeped in local oral history\, but it is his professional skill as a forensic investigator that has enabled him put forward a solution to this 230 year old mystery. Jim continues to make a prolific contribution to the sharing of our Aboriginal history and heritage\, and is probably best known for making the link in the early 1980’s between the tribal Aboriginal game of Marngrook and the origins of Australian Football. \nThis event will be delivered by Zoom and is a free event. Zoom details will be sent to all those who register just prior to the event. \nImage: Botany Bay. ‘Sirius & convoy going in: Supply & agents division in the bay. 21 Janry 1788.’ William Bradley\, watercolour from his journal ‘A Voyage to New South Wales’\, 1802+. State Library of New South Wales\, [Safe 1 / 14]. \nTHIS IS A HISTORY MONTH EVENT: click on the logo for the full program of events
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/australias-holocaust-exhuming-the-buried-truth-behind-australias-1789-smallpox-plague/
LOCATION:ZOOM\, Join from anywhere in the world
CATEGORIES:What's On
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Botany-Bay.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Royal Historical Society of Victoria":MAILTO:office@historyvictoria.org.au
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20211013T200000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20211013T210000
DTSTAMP:20260421T075229
CREATED:20210921T131550Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210922T070052Z
UID:10000237-1634155200-1634158800@www.historyvictoria.org.au
SUMMARY:2021 DICKINSON LECTURE
DESCRIPTION:2021 DICKINSON LECTURE\n  \nRECENT ACQUISITIONS FOR THE DECORATIVE ARTS DEPARTMENT AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF VICTORIA\nAmanda Dunsmore\, Senior Curator\, International Decorative Arts & Antiquities \n  \nThe Kew Historical Society is pleased to announce that the annual Dickinson Lecture for 2021 will be presented by Ms Amanda Dunsmore\, of the National Gallery of\nVictoria. The International Decorative Arts & Antiquities Department collection of the NGV includes Mediterranean and Near Eastern antiquities\, British and Continental\ndecorative arts from 1200 to 1980\, and North American decorative arts of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. \nThe lecture will explore an exciting selection of new additions to the NGV collection including eighteenth-century vases by the Vincennes Porcelain\nManufactory (pictured) to the window designs of Frank Lloyd Wright and Picasso’s ceramics. \nTickets $10 \nTickets – Eventbrite \nhttps://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/recent-acquisitions-for-the-decorative-arts-department-of-the-ngv-tickets-175237097877?keep_tld=1 \n \nAmanda Dunsmore\, Senior Curator\, International Decorative Arts & Antiquities \nTHIS IS A HISTORY MONTH EVENT
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/2021-dickinson-lecture/
LOCATION:ZOOM\, Join from anywhere in the world
CATEGORIES:Victorian History Events
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Dunsmore-Amanda.jpg
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR