Join the Professional Historians Association to hear eminent environmental historian Dr Margaret Cook at the second annual Wilson History Oration, environmental historian, Dr Margaret Cook will explore the ways history can engage with the public, the media, other professions and policy makers. In discussing her work on floods, she will highlight how her
role and training as a public historian shapes her scholarship and historical practice. Join us as we consider these themes during one of our greatest crises in history: the climate emergency.

North and West Melbourne have streets that are made for walking; During the Covid pandemic as we walked the streets for the good of our health (and the health of our dogs) many of us came to a fresh appreciation of the life around us. We became familiar with the diversity of building shapes and
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As part of the Robert Burns Festival held over three days, the Camperdown & District Historical Society offers a lecture program with four experienced presenters on Saturday 1st July.

The nineteenth century saw many miraculous advancements in the field of medicine. Unfortunately, with them came hordes of quacks and charlatans eager to take your money at the expense of your health. Join Dr Jo Clyne and Dr David Waldron as they reveal the deceptive practices of this era through a hybrid history lecture/magic show. 7.00pm
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📜 All stories are shaped by the documents that survive to tell them. Over the past 169 years, the Prahran Mechanics’ Institute (founded in 1854) has accumulated a collection that not only covers the history of Victoria but also contains many hidden gems. Come along and discover the treasures of the PMI collection from letters,
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We invite you to the 50th AGM of the Glen Eira Historical Society followed by a talk by Paul Long, Professor in Creative and Cultural Industries at Monash University. Whether in the form of the classical greats, traditional music or popular sounds from jazz, country, big bands to rock and roll, music offers a soundtrack
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Family Historian Smita Biswas will share tips to find clues about your family roots in India and Sri Lanka, including understanding the history, surnames and official resources. Regarded by some historians as the oldest living civilization on Earth, the Indian tradition dates back to 8,000 BC and has a continuous recorded history of over 2,500
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Join Professor Janet McCalman of the University of Melbourne as she discusses her book Vandemonians: the repressed history of colonial Victoria. This fascinating book examines the stories of Victoria’s convict ancestors to find more than just their criminal activity. Only now are we discovering their stories and Victoria's place in the nation's convict history.