Royal Historical Society of Victoria

ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW. MODULE 6: MAKING COLLECTIONS ACCESSIBLE
2019-12-13 13:00 - 16:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | RHSV ZOOM by Invitation, Australia
The RHSV is offering a series of 6 linked workshops which cover cataloguing and digitisation. This series of workshops starts with basic concepts and builds in complexity.
We have spaced the workshops so that participants have time in which to put into practice their new skills before the next workshop.
Some participants will want to book for the full series of 6 workshops and others will want to choose those individual workshops that are most suitable for them. So, although the series is designed as a cohesive whole, the individual workshops also work as stand-alone training sessions.
All workshops are limited to 20 participants and will be lead by Sophie Shilling, our digital expert. They are all to be held at the RHSV: Officers’ Mess Upstairs, RHSV 239 A’Beckett St, Melbourne. This room, unfortunately, is only accessible by a staircase – there is no disabled access.
THE LAST IN THE SERIES …
MODULE 6: MAKING COLLECTIONS ACCESSIBLE
FRIDAY 13 DECEMBER 1PM – 4PM
Objects need to be accessible, whether that is to people managing a collection, to visitors, or to the public. This workshop will introduce themes of copyright and privacy that relate to historical collections. Participants will learn how to optimise catalogue records for discovery, how to write for social media, and create digital exhibitions.
INDIVIDUAL WORKSHOPS: RHSV MEMBERS: $25 NON-RHSV MEMBERS: $35
QUERIES: +61 3 9326 9288 / OFFICE@HISTORYVICTORIA.ORG.AU

And, finally, a date-claimer for our first workshop in 2020:
BORN DIGITAL
FRIDAY 24 JANUARY 2020 1PM – 4PM, OFFICERS’ MESS UPSTAIRS, RHSV 239 A’BECKETT ST, MELBOURNE
This workshop is a stand-alone workshop which will be presented in partnership with AMaGA. It covers Born Digital documents – those documents that only exist in digital format. Although it is not part of our 6 module series it is naturally a good fit as a coda. So, this is a date-claimer as bookings for this stand-alone workshop will not open for several months yet.
Previous modules in the series:
MODULE 1: COMPUTER CATALOGUING FOR ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS
MODULE 2: USING CATALOGUING SOFTWARE
MODULE 3: SCANNING FOR BEGINNERS
MODULE 4: DIGITISING BOOKS AND PHOTOGRAPHING OBJECTS
MODULE 5: LOOKING AFTER DIGITAL FILES

Launch: Locating Australian Literary Memory
2019-12-12 17:30 - 19:30 | RHSV, Gallery Downstairs, 239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia
The RHSV is delighted to host the launch of Brigid Magner’s Locating Australian Literary Memory which explores the cultural meanings suffusing local literary commemorations.
John Arnold, book historian and former editor of the La Trobe Journal, will launch the book and also there will be readings from the Henry Lawson, Adam Lindsay Gordon and Henry Handel Richardson societies (and maybe a Banjo Paterson song)!
It is orientated around eleven authors – Adam Lindsay Gordon, Joseph Furphy, Henry Handel Richardson, Henry Lawson, A. B. ‘Banjo’ Paterson, Nan Chauncy, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Eleanor Dark, P. L. Travers, Kylie Tennant and David Unaipon – who have all been celebrated through a range of forms including statues, huts, trees, writers’ houses and assorted objects.
Brigid Magner illuminates the social memory residing in these monuments
and artefacts, which were largely created as bulwarks against forgetting. Acknowledging the
value of literary memorials and the voluntary labour that enables them, she traverses the many
contradictions, ironies and eccentricities of authorial commemoration in Australia, arguing for an
expanded repertoire of practices to recognise those who have been hitherto excluded.
Brigid Magner’s fascinating study sets out the ways in which a nation can build an identity
by actively constructing a literary memory, and then using those memories to paper over the
deep history of our First Nations and their stories. In doing so she helps us understand both
how fragile Australian culture is and also the ways in which literature is a powerful force.’
—Sophie Cunningham
Brigid Magner is senior lecturer in literary studies and founding member of the non/fiction lab
research group at RMIT University, Australia. She has contributed to a range of publications on
topics relating to Australian and New Zealand literary culture with a particular focus on publishing,
authorship, cultural heritage and tourism.
Drinks from 5:30pm for a 6pm launch.

John Arnold recently retired from Monash University after twenty-three years with the National Centre for Australian Studies. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Monash. He was the co-editor (with John Hay) of the four-volume Bibliography of Australian Literature (2001–08) and author of The Fanfrolico Press: Satyrs, Fauns and Fine Books (2008). He is a former editor of the La Trobe Journal. He is published widely on the history of the book in Australia.

John worked at the State Library from 1975–1980 and from 1983–1989. He has held continuous office-bearer/board member positions in the Friends of the La Trobe Library/State Library of Victoria and the Library Foundation since 1983. John is a former President of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand and a long-standing member of the Committee of the Victorian Branch of the Bookcollector’s Society of Australia.

RHSV Christmas lunch for volunteers
2019-12-11 12:30 - 14:30 | Radisson on Flagstaff Gardens, 380 William St, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia
For our volunteers and staff to celebrate a wonderful year working together at the RHSV.

Launch of A Guide to Historic St Kilda
2019-12-10 18:00 - 19:30 | Readings St Kilda, 112 Acland St, St Kilda, VICTORIA, 3182, Australia
Where was the alpaca paddock?
Who has the Palais chandelier?
Was there a Banksy painting in a laneway?
Join author, David Willis for the launch of his latest book, A Guide to Historic St Kilda on Tuesday 10 December at 6pm at Readings, 112 Acland St.
RSVP: stkildapress@outlook.com

Looking Back, Looking Forward. Summer Fun in Yarra Plenty
2019-12-05 - 2020-01-06 | Eltham Library Community Gallery, 1 Panther Place, Eltham, Victoria, 3095, Australia
5 December 2019 – 6 January 2020
Historical photographs and original artworks are exhibited side by side in this celebration of all things
summer – picnics, swimming, boating, horsing around, and enjoying nature with family and friends during long sunny days.
The exhibition is presented in collaboration with members of the Yarra Plenty Heritage Group including Andrew Ross Museum, Eltham District Historical Society, Greensborough Historical Society, Heidelberg Historical Society, St Andrews/Queenstown Historical Society, Nillumbik Historical Society, Nillumbik Reconciliation Group, 2nd Eltham Sea Scouts and Nillumbik U3A Painting and Drawing Group.
Opening
Thursday 5 December.
To be opened by Nillumbik Mayor, Cr Karen Egan
Time 2.30pm to 4.30pm
GALLERY Opening Hours
Monday – Thursday 10 am – 8.30 pm
Friday – Saturday 10am – 5pm
Sunday 1pm – 5pm
Public Holidays Closed
Image caption: Enjoying the Heidelberg State School Pool c1930s P2260, Heidelberg Historical Society collection

Jack Wetherly under the microscope
2019-12-04 12:30 - 13:30 | RHSV ZOOM by Invitation, Australia
We are delighted to present a talk by Catherine Gill who has been volunteering at the RHSV. Catherine writes,
“As part of my recently completed Masters in Cultural Materials Conservation, I was given opportunity to study the portrait of Jack Wetherly. The original artwork was painted in 1840 by Thomas Napier. Records at the RHSV state that the painting in its collection is a copy of the original artwork and was possibly painted by Thomas Clark.
“With consent from the RHSV I was able to undertake a research study on the painting of Jack Wetherly for my thesis. The focus was to conduct scientific analysis of the materials used by the artist in order to assist with the creation of a conservation plan to treat the painting. Another purpose of the study was to gather knowledge that this portrait holds about Jack Wetherly and the history surrounding him to accompany the portrait. The talk will focus on the two areas of the research findings as well as the process undertaken to conserve the portrait.
About the painting
Thomas Napier migrated to Hobart with his companion from England the builder John Brown (later of Como, Victoria). During his time in Hobart ‘he saw the surviving members of the Big River Tribe being brought into Hobart Town by George Augustus Robinson en route to Flinders Island’ (Trove, 2019). The Barber Chronicles (1979, p. 60) state that ‘By permission of the authorities he was enabled to paint on canvas several portraits of the Natives, including one of the chiefs called Manalangana which is now housed at the Melbourne Savage Club.’ The portrait Alphonse, the Tasmanian retitled A Tasmanian Aboriginal is housed at Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery. Another painting of Woureddy and Trukanini is held in a private collection.
“Napier migrated to Melbourne soon after these portraits were done and was amongst the first people to purchase land at the first land sale. After about 18 months, he established a cattle station near Dandenong and it is likely he met the Boonwurrung man Jack Wetherly. After a year he returned to Melbourne and this is probably when the portrait was painted.
“Information about Jack Wetherly was found in the journals of William Thomas who was appointed as one of four assistant protectors under the Port Phillip Protectorate (1839-1849). Thomas was responsible for the western Boonwurrung and Woiwurrung clans. Part of the role of the protectors was to record interactions with the Aboriginal people under their assigned care. As a result of this, Thomas created journals that documented names and activities and the places to which the Aboriginal people travelled. We learn from these records some information about Wetherly’s journeys from the protectorate on the Mornington Peninsula to Melbourne and Dandenong and some of the events that happened in his life during the period he was under the watch of William Thomas.
“Before commencing my masters, I worked as a Visual Art teacher for many years. I currently work part-time at the University of Melbourne coordinating the Arts West Gallery Space and continue to volunteer at RHSV.”
Attendees are more than welcome to eat their lunch whilst listening to Catherine and we’ll have tea / coffee available from 12noon onwards.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are warned that the event will exhibit images of deceased persons.
Image credit:
Thomas Napier (copy) Jack Wetherly a Victorian Native, 1840, oil on canvas, 79.7 x 66.9 cm (unframed), Melbourne, Royal Historical Society of Victoria

Specialist history tour: Melbourne Observatory
2019-12-01 20:30 - 22:00 | Melbourne Observatory, Birdwood Avenue, Royal Botanic Gardens, VIC, 3004, Australia
This event booked out in less than 24 hours! We hope to organise more tours in the New Year so keep an eye out for further announcements.
The RHSV is organising a special historical tour of The Melbourne Observatory for our members.
The Melbourne Observatory was constructed in 1861–63, and expanded until 1902 to eventually comprise 22 rooms. Far from only stargazing, the Observatory staff provided critical scientific data essential for the smooth running of industries ranging from shipping to farming and city business to politics.
It commenced operations in 1863 and achieved a great deal of practical value for Victoria before it was decommissioned from official Government work in 1945. However it has since remained in use as an astronomical observatory.
The Observatory was the home for weather forecasting, time setting, setting weights and measures standards and for the surveying of Victoria. The distinctive shapes of the buildings, built and added to between 1861 and 1902, topped by sliding domes and opening roof structures evoke immediate recognition of their functions as devices for tracking and charting stars, watching the weather and keeping time.
In the rapidly growing nineteenth century city of Melbourne, telling the time accurately was a major challenge. The Melbourne Observatory provided the time for a clock in Bourke Street as well as the clocks at Flinders and Spencer Street railway stations.
Much of the historic equipment used when the Observatory was fully operational is preserved and still used for observing the southern night sky.
Melbourne Observatory is now on the National Heritage List (early 2018). It has since been found to be of even greater national and world significance. Following successful precedents set by Sydney Observatory and many others around the world – including another highly significant 19th century observatory at Birr Castle in Ireland, Melbourne Observatory should become a working heritage astronomical observatory museum. The reinstallation of the reconstructed Great Melbourne Telescope of 1869 in its original building at the Melbourne Observatory is underway and authentic, sensitive restoration of the entire Melbourne Observatory site should follow.
Important information about the tour:

Each tour consists of a max of 12 people. If there is sufficient interest we will book two tours which will occur simultaneously.
The tour is conducted at night and are not suitable for wheelchairs due to narrow entrances and staircases. This tour includes entry into confined spaces and climbing stairs, therefore requires a moderate level of physical fitness and mobility
The tour will not be cancelled due to overcast or inclement weather conditions. Our guide will conduct an informative tour although the use of telescopes for observation in these conditions will not occur
This program is not suitable for children under the age of 8 years. Children 8 years and above must be accompanied by an adult.

This is both an indoor and outdoor activity. Please wear appropriate clothing for weather conditions and appropriate footwear.

The La Trobes' Music
2019-12-01 14:00 - 16:00 | La Trobe’s Cottage, cnr Birdwood Avenue and Dallas Brooks Drive, Melbourne, Victoria, 3004, Australia
The La Trobes’ Music: celebrate the role music played in the life of the La Trobe family while they lived at ‘Jolimont’.
Musicians will perform the music that would have echoed around ‘Jolimont’ in the time of the La Trobe family.
• the piano sonatas composed by La Trobe’s father Christian Ignatius
• a song transcribed by Georgiana McCrae at ‘Jolimont’
• violinists play folk songs which the family would have sung around the Broadwood piano they brought with them to Melbourne in 1839.
Guided tours of the Cottage will be available throughout the afternoon.

Walk into history
2019-12-01 10:00 - 12:00 | VIC
Bendigo Historical Society offers different guided walking tours every month. In December it will be:
Beehive / Allan’s Walk / Stock Exchange
Meet at Pall Mall entrance of the Beehive building, Pall Mall, Bendigo

Explorations Series - Living with the Hume Dam, 1919-2019
2019-11-28 16:30 - 18:30 | Commerical Club, 618 Dean Street, Albury, NSW, 2640, Australia
In 1919 work began on Hume Dam with celebration and acclaim. When it was completed in 1936 it was hailed as an engineering and political achievement, indeed, a nation-building project.
How do we understand its history and legacy now in 2019?
Join river system and dam managers, environmentalists, historians, photographers and musicians as they share stories and reflect on the centenary of Hume Dam. We have challenged them to excite us and even try to persuade us to their view in a series of quick-fire ‘show and tell’ presentations.

What have been the opportunities and the challenges that came with Hume Dam?
What have been the social, economic and environmental impacts of Hume Dam?
What stories does Hume Dam reveal or obscure?
How might the people of Albury-Wodonga and the people of Australia, reflect on their connections with Hume Dam, the lake, and the regulated river?
What do representations of Hume Dam and its surrounds reveal about past and present day mind-sets

This event is organised by Charles Sturt University working in conjunction with La Trobe University and Albury & District Historical Society. This is a Two Cities One Community initiative held with the support of the Murray Darling Basin Authority.
Light refreshments will be provided concluding the event.
FREE EVENT
Bookings: https://about.csu.edu.au/community/events/upcoming/albury-wodonga/explorations-series-living-with-the-hume-dam-1919-2019

ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW. MODULE 5: LOOKING AFTER DIGITAL FILES
2019-11-22 13:00 - 16:00 | VIC
The RHSV is offering a series of 6 linked workshops which cover cataloguing and digitisation. This series of workshops starts with basic concepts and builds in complexity.
We have spaced the workshops so that participants have time in which to put into practice their new skills before the next workshop.
Some participants will want to book for the full series of 6 workshops and others will want to choose those individual workshops that are most suitable for them. So, although the series is designed as a cohesive whole, the individual workshops also work as stand-alone training sessions.
All workshops are limited to 20 participants and will be lead by Sophie Shilling, our digital expert. They are all to be held at the RHSV: Officers’ Mess Upstairs, RHSV 239 A’Beckett St, Melbourne. This room, unfortunately, is only accessible by a staircase – there is no disabled access.
MODULE 5: LOOKING AFTER DIGITAL FILES
FRIDAY 22 NOVEMBER 1PM – 4PM
This is a basic digital preservation workshop. The workshop will begin with brief project management skills including templates for policies and procedures. We will discuss digital storage, how to create backups, and how to check if files are damaged. Participants will learn how to describe an object using Dublin Core so that digital files can be discoverable.
MODULE 6: MAKING COLLECTIONS ACCESSIBLE
FRIDAY 13 DECEMBER 1PM – 4PM
INDIVIDUAL WORKSHOPS: RHSV MEMBERS: $25 NON-RHSV MEMBERS: $35
QUERIES: +61 3 9326 9288 / OFFICE@HISTORYVICTORIA.ORG.AU

And, finally, a date-claimer for our first workshop in 2020:
BORN DIGITAL
FRIDAY 24 JANUARY 2020 1PM – 4PM, OFFICERS’ MESS UPSTAIRS, RHSV 239 A’BECKETT ST, MELBOURNE
This workshop is a stand-alone workshop which will be presented in partnership with AMaGA. It covers Born Digital documents – those documents that only exist in digital format. Although it is not part of our 6 module series it is naturally a good fit as a coda. So, this is a date-claimer as bookings for this stand-alone workshop will not open for several months yet.
Previous modules in the series:
MODULE 1: COMPUTER CATALOGUING FOR ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS
MODULE 2: USING CATALOGUING SOFTWARE
MODULE 3: SCANNING FOR BEGINNERS
MODULE 4: DIGITISING BOOKS AND PHOTOGRAPHING OBJECTS

The launch of Melbourne's Twenty Decades
2019-11-19 17:00 - 19:00 | RHSV, Gallery Downstairs, 239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia
The Royal Historical Society of Victoria invites our members and friends to attend
the launch of our latest book,
Melbourne’s Twenty Decades,
to be launched by Emeritus Laureate Professor Stuart Macintyre AO FAHA FASSA
on Tuesday 19 November, 2019 at 5:00pm for 5:30pm to 7:00pm
at the RHSV Gallery Downstairs, 239 A’Beckett Street, Melbourne.
Editors: Richard Broome, Richard Barnden, Elisabeth Jackson, Judith Smart
Contributing Authors: Jill Barnard, Richard Broome, Michael Cannon, Graeme Davison, Don Garden, John Lack, Andrew Lemon, Andrew May, Seamus O’Hanlon, Charles Sowerwine and Judith Smart.

BOOK LAUNCH INVITATION to Mallee Country: Land, People, History
2019-11-16 16:00 - 18:00 | RHSV, Gallery Downstairs, 239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia
The Royal Historical Society of Victoria and Monash University Publishing are delighted to invite you the launch of
Mallee Country: Land, People, History
By Richard Broome, Charles Fahey, Andrea Gaynor and Katie Holmes
Mallee Country will be launched by Tom Griffiths, Emeritus Professor of History, ANU.
With a special performance by the celebrated gum leaf player Herb Patten, a Gunai-Kurnai, Yorta Yorta and Wiradjuri man based in Melbourne
4.00 for 4.30pm to 6.00pm
RSVP (appreciated) by Wednesday 13 November 2019
Queries: office@historyvictoria.org.au or (03) 9326 9288

Those Creative Liardets
2019-11-14 - 2019-12-01 | Port Melbourne Town Hall, 333 Bay Street, Port Melbourne, VIC, 3207, Australia
We welcome and encourage you to come and celebrate the 180th anniversary of Wilbraham and Caroline Liardet’s arrival to the shores of ‘The Beach’ – later Sandridge (Port Melbourne).
Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation Society is proud to present a collection of beautiful artworks and creative pieces from some of their descendants.
This exhibition celebrates the creative streak that runs true and strong in the Liardet family – passed on though the generations. These descendants continue Wilbraham’s natural artistic ability and his passion for visually recording the world around him.
The exhibition runs from 14th November to 1st December 2019
Monday to Friday 8.30am – 6.00pm and Saturday 10.00 am – 2.00 pm

Celebration of Fifty Years Membership
2019-11-13 10:30 - 12:00 | RHSV, Gallery Downstairs, 239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia
Congratulations! You have been a member
of the RHSV for more than 50 years!
And we think that is worth celebrating.
The President, Richard Broome, & Councillors
of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria
invite you, and your guest, to join us
in celebrating your half century of membership
on Wednesday 13 November from 10:30am
at a champagne morning tea.

Lecture. Farming the Mallee: Visions and Realities 1890-present
2019-11-12 17:15 - 19:00 | RHSV ZOOM by Invitation, Australia
We are honoured that our last major lecture for 2019 will be delivered by Professor Katie Holmes, Director, Centre for the Study of the Inland and co-author of the soon-to-be-published Mallee Country: Land, People, History together with Richard Broome, Charles Fahey and Andrea Gaynor.
In the early 1890s the Victorian Mallee was seen as a ‘howling wilderness’ covered in ‘dismal scrub’. As surveyors began to subdivide the large pastoral stations into 320 acre blocks, the Mallee boosters envisaged an area as a vast granary of golden fields and 5000 acres wheat farms. The subsequent 130 years would see the vision of extensive wheat farms become a reality but the process of transformation came at significant personal and environmental cost.
This talk will explore the cycles of drought and abundance, hope and despair that have characterised Mallee farming; the impacts of social, economic, technological and environmental change on farming practice; and some of the challenges ahead for Mallee communities.

Congress for International Cooperation and Disarmament (CICD) celebrates 60 years
2019-11-10 14:00 - 17:00 | Unitarian Peace Memorial Church, 110 Grey St, Melbourne, VIC, 3002, Australia
On 10 November 2019 CICD will celebrate 60 years of active campaigning on peace and nuclear disarmament, social justice and much more…
We’d like to invite you to celebrate this with us at our anniversary function.
So, please join us as we continue to fight for peace and to Ban the Bomb!
Speakers include:
Joan Coxsedge: anti war activist jailed for her anti conscription activities, Artist and writer. Member of the Melbourne Unitarian Peace Memorial Church, Member of CICD and one of the first two women to be elected to the Legislative Council and first Labor woman MLC.
Professor Joseph Camileri: From Pax Christi, is managing director of Alexandria Agenda, Emeritus Professor at La Trobe University in Melbourne, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences.
Bruce McPhie: is a multi-talented activist and was a hardworking and valuable asset to CICD when he was working there. His political understanding of the world was and is outstanding and advanced the anti-imperialist peace aims of CICD.
Bruce continues to be an asset to CICD via his creative blog writing on the state of the world
John Lloyd: Ex Secretary of the CICD during the moratorium period. John is involved with the Vietnam Moratorium 50thAnniversary Committee preparing for its commemoration on 8 May 2020.
Marion Harper: Ex-Hon. Secretary of the Unitarian Peace Memorial Church, campaigner and activist for peace and social justice.
There will be more speakers plenty of food and drinks and music
Afternoon tea will be offered at the event
Please RSVP to Romina Beitseen: peacecentre@cicd.org.au or phone Romina on 0414 352 542.

Celebration of the 90th birthday of Professor John Riddoch Poynter AO
2019-11-08 10:30 - 12:30 | RHSV, Gallery Downstairs, 239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia
The Royal Historical Society of Victoria is hosting a
A SPARKLING MORNING TEA TO CELEBRATE THE 90th BIRTHDAY OF
Professor John Riddoch Poynter AO
On Friday 8 November 2019 at 10:30am for 11am
at the rooms of the RHSV, Ground Floor, 239 A’Beckett Street, Melbourne
We invite the family, friends, colleagues and students of Professor Poynter and the members of the RHSV to join us in this celebration.
John Poynter in a long, illustrious career has made a major contribution to historical studies in Australia, and particularly to the history of Melbourne and Victoria through his outstanding biographical writing.
Amongst his many career achievements are:

University of Melbourne BA, PhD
Victorian Rhodes Scholar 1951
Oxford University MA
Chevalier des Palmes Academiques 1980
Dean of Trinity College, University of Melbourne 1953-64
Ernest Scott Professor of History, University of Melbourne 1966-75
Dean of the Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne 1971-73
Dean of the Faculty of Music, Visual and Performing Arts 1991-93
Pro Vice Chancellor 1972-75, Deputy Vice-Chancellor 1975-90, Assistant Vice-Chancellor 1991-94
Section Editor, Australian Dictionary of Biography 1978-90
President, Citizens Welfare Service 1972-91

His books include the biographies of Russell Grimwade, Alfred Felton, Alexander Leeper and Dr L.L.Smith. With Carolyn Rasmussen he co-authored a history of the University of Melbourne 1935-75. In 2009 he published a collection of verses and memoirs entitled The Tarnished Swan.

Bonegilla Migrant Experience: Virtual Tour Launch
2019-11-04 16:00 - 17:30 | The Cube, 118 Hovell St, Wodonga, VIC, 3690, Australia
Five ways to use a virtual tour and online learning
materials to explore the Bonegilla Migrant Experience.
Authors Paul Grover and Bruce Pennay will introduce a new self-guided 3D virtual tour and showcase innovative history investigations on the new Investigating Bonegilla website. These resources have been designed to address concepts and skills in the Australian History Curriculum and NSW History syllabuses.
Drinks at bar prices. Nibbles provided.
RSVPs encouraged.
Please phone Bonegilla Migrant Experience on (02) 6020 6912.

Walk into history
2019-11-03 10:00 - 12:00 | VIC
Bendigo Historical Society offers a different walk every month. In November they look at Hunter House and surrounds.
Meet at Grimsby Mill, 35 Will St Bendigo.

ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW. MODULE 4: DIGITISING BOOKS AND PHOTOGRAPHING OBJECTS
2019-11-01 13:00 - 16:00 | RHSV ZOOM by Invitation, Australia
The RHSV is offering a series of 6 linked workshops which cover cataloguing and digitisation. This series of workshops starts with basic concepts and builds in complexity.
We have spaced the workshops so that participants have time in which to put into practice their new skills before the next workshop.
Some participants will want to book for the full series of 6 workshops and others will want to choose those individual workshops that are most suitable for them. So, although the series is designed as a cohesive whole, the individual workshops also work as stand-alone training sessions.
All workshops are limited to 20 participants and will be lead by Sophie Shilling, our digital expert. They are all to be held at the RHSV: Officers’ Mess Upstairs, RHSV 239 A’Beckett St, Melbourne. This room, unfortunately, is only accessible by a staircase – there is no disabled access.

MODULE 4: DIGITISING BOOKS AND PHOTOGRAPHING OBJECTS
FRIDAY 1 NOVEMBER 1PM – 4PM
In this intermediate digitisation workshop, we will introduce participants to best-practice digitisation techniques and procedures. Participants will have the opportunity to digitise books using a book scanner, and to set up a site for object photography. Then, we will introduce some image manipulation techniques including making thumbnails and watermarks. This workshop is aimed at those who are comfortable using a flatbed scanner and would like to expand their digitisation and digital image manipulation skills.
MODULE 5: LOOKING AFTER DIGITAL FILES
FRIDAY 22 NOVEMBER 1PM – 4PM
MODULE 6: MAKING COLLECTIONS ACCESSIBLE
FRIDAY 13 DECEMBER 1PM – 4PM
INDIVIDUAL WORKSHOPS: RHSV MEMBERS: $25 NON-RHSV MEMBERS: $35
QUERIES: +61 3 9326 9288 / OFFICE@HISTORYVICTORIA.ORG.AU

And, finally, a date-claimer for our first workshop in 2020:
BORN DIGITAL
FRIDAY 24 JANUARY 2020 1PM – 4PM, OFFICERS’ MESS UPSTAIRS, RHSV 239 A’BECKETT ST, MELBOURNE
This workshop is a stand-alone workshop which will be presented in partnership with AMaGA. It covers Born Digital documents – those documents that only exist in digital format. Although it is not part of our 6 module series it is naturally a good fit as a coda. So, this is a date-claimer as bookings for this stand-alone workshop will not open for several months yet.
Previous modules in the series:
MODULE 1: COMPUTER CATALOGUING FOR ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS
MODULE 2: USING CATALOGUING SOFTWARE
MODULE 3: SCANNING FOR BEGINNERS

Tour – The Streets Where We Live – Cheltenham Pioneer Cemetery
2019-10-27 14:00 - 16:30 | Cheltenham Pioneer Cemetery, Charman Road, Cheltenham, Victoria, 3192, Australia
Have you ever wondered where our street names come from? Many are named after local settlers and dignitaries who are buried at the Cheltenham Pioneer historic cemetery. Some of the streets we will look at – Crawford, Barrett, Charles, Edward and Booker Streets Cheltenham; Comport, Beaumaris; Cullinane, Black Rock; Kingston Road, Moorabbin; Tootal Road Dingley; Bloxsidge Mordialloc; Watkins Aspendale; Mundy Mentone and the proposed new suburb of Pennydale. This new tour is part of our ongoing quest to document the life stories of our early settlers. Perhaps one of these is your ancestor or you live near one of these streets!

Melbourne – A Great Maritime City
2019-10-23 18:00 - 19:30 | Swanston Hall, Melbourne Town Hall, 90 - 130 Swanston Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia
Melbourne Maritime Heritage Network invites all those interested to their inaugural Annual General Meeting.
This event, we believe, marks a turning-point in relation to the due recognition of our marvelous maritime sector.
The Melbourne Maritime Heritage Network was formed to focus attention on our neglected maritime heritage, to foster collaboration, to capture its cultural, social and economic value, and to ensure that Melbourne’s marvelous maritime legacy may be rightly celebrated and sustained.
Feel to extend this invitation throughout your networks.
The AGM Program

Overview of MMHN objectives and progress
Meet the Board
Three short speeches from key stakeholders
Opportunity to engage with MMHN Specialist Advisory Groups

RSVP – optional – info@MMHN.org.au
(Perhaps you could indicate your intention to come along AND WHO YOU MIGHT BRING WITH YOU?)

History Week 2019
2019-10-20 09:00 - 17:00, 2019-10-19 09:00 - 17:00, 2019-10-18 09:00 - 17:00 | VIC
Save the dates
In 2019 History Week will run from Sunday 13 to Sunday 20 October.
Keep an eye out for new initiatives around History Week and the Victorian Community History Awards which is our flagship event in History Week.
The History Week Website is the home of History Week and where all of the events will be published later in 2019.

Historic Houses Tour
2019-10-20 | Castlemaine Town, Two venues, Castlemaine, VIC, 3450, Australia
Two historic houses in Castlemaine will be open to the public to raise funds for the Castlemaine Historical Society.

R U Ready? 10 Years On
2019-10-19 11:00 - 14:30 | Wandong Heathcote Junction Memorial Park, Epping Kilmore Road, Wandong, VIC, 3758, Australia
The Wandong History Group in collaboration with the Wandong CFA would like to invite you to attend our R U Ready? 10 Years On event to be held at the Wandong Memorial Park.
The event has been funded by a grant from the Foundation for Rural and Regional Development (FRRR) along with a Community BBQ and entertainment being sponsored by the Mitchell Shire Council.
The event is designed to raise our community’s awareness and preparedness for the upcoming bushfire season and for any future emergency events. As part of that preparedness, the Wandong CFA will provide information and advice around ‘Knowing Your Risk’ along with fun activities for all as part of their Fire Action Week.
The Wandong History Group will as part of their History Week activities stage a Post Bushfire Recovery Photographic Exhibition to showcase the community’s resilience as well as screening our 2019 Commemorative DVD and unveiling a whole of Wandong Primary School artwork.
To further aid our community’s preparedness we will be drawing a ballot for 100 Emergency Starter Kits to be given away to residents of Wandong Heathcote Junction. The day should be a lot of fun as well as providing an opportunity for everyone to meet members of our emergency services, community groups and Council.
We hope you will come along to this special day and would appreciate your RSVP by 16th October to: wandonghistorygroup4@gmail.com

The Genealogical Society of Victoria: an introduction
2019-10-18 13:00 - 14:30 | Genealogical Society of Victoria, Level 1, 10 Queen Street, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000, Australia
As part of History Week the Genealogical Society of Victoria is holding an information session especially for RHSV members and friends.
A couple of years ago we were fortunate to absorb some of the GSV’s library at the RHSV as they, like all of us, were downsizing. As there are great similarities between the two organisations and our aims we are starting to create shared events – this is the first.
For anyone contemplating researching their family this event is key. It is also of great interest for those undertaking more general research as family research skills and resources can be used to create histories for any characters, not just your family. The GSV has not just an impressive research centre but it hosts a multitude of focused groups which meet monthly to assist each other with knotty problems. And, like the RHSV, they have a very full program of public events to assist their members. As we all know family research is more than births, deaths and marriages and good research skills and resources are needed to put flesh on bones.
The two speakers will be Jenny Redman (current President) and David Down (immediate Past President) who will cover three topics:

Introduction to the GSV
Starting family history
DNA

and ending with Q&A.
This is a free event but is strictly limited to 20 people so we ask you to register below. Please let us know if your circumstances change and you can no longer attend. When you register we ask you to nominate your level of research skills simply so Jenny and David know where to pitch their information.

Walking tour: Batmania
2019-10-17 10:00 - 11:30 | The Former Age Building, 655 Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000, Australia
In late 1835 John Batman was feted as he proceeded up the Yarra Yarra by 300 dancing aborigines welcoming King Batman to Batmania. Batman had been to-ing and fro-ing between the infant Port Phillip settlement and Launceston, his former home, over several months and this lavish welcome had been organised by his brother Henry and the former convict, William Buckley, to get under the skin of Batman’s nemesis, John Pascoe Fawkner. As always, it worked!
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.
Join Fiona as she explains those early years and shows the surprising reminders of a time long gone.
We will launch this new tour in History Week on Tuesday 15 and Thursday 17 October at 10am. For History Week the tours will be free-of-charge but please book as numbers are strictly limited.
The tour will start at the former Age building on the corner of Collins and Spencer Streets and will take about 90 minutes. Although the distance covered is not vast, you will be on your feet for 90 minutes so please wear comfortable walking shoes.
The tours will go ahead whatever the weather and we ask people to gather under the portico of 655 Collins St (Corner of Spencer St) – the former Age Building (with the big media screen, opp Southern Cross Station).
