Royal Historical Society of Victoria

Hugh Anderson, historian
2022-08-23 17:30 - 19:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | RHSV, Gallery Downstairs, 239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia
We are delighted that Professor Frank Bongiorno will be delivering the inaugural RHSV Hugh Anderson Lecture, a new addition to our Distinguished Lecturer series.
“Hugh Anderson (1927-2017) was a scholar of formidable breadth, productivity and versatility. While it is as a folklorist that he is arguably best known both in Australia and abroad, Anderson’s prolific output also included biography, bibliography, history, school textbooks and documentary collections. His range of interests was very wide: Anderson seemed as comfortable in writing about John Pascoe Fawkner as Squizzy Taylor, as at home with an Aboriginal gumleaf player and a Sydney street poet as with the exquisite verse of John Shaw Neilson or the stately poetry of Bernard O’Dowd. This lecture will consider Anderson specifically as a historian and biographer. While it should not be pigeon-holed, Anderson’s historical and biographical writing incorporated many of the materials, perspectives and insights derived from folklore studies, and he treated literary creativity as central to telling the Melbourne, Victorian and Australian stories. Anderson’s boundary-riding between history, biography, folklore and literature was remarkably productive for him, and it was not unusual among writers with his radical-nationalist politics in the middle decades of the twentieth century. I argue in this lecture for the significance of Anderson as a historian and biographer working outside academia and across a diverse cultural domain, at a time when universities were moving toward a sharper focus on specialised research, theory and discipline-based knowledge – in ways that both deepened and limited understandings of Australian history and culture.”
Frank Bongiorno is Professor of History at the Australian National University where he was head from July 2018 to June 2021. Born in Nhill, he grew up in Melbourne and is a graduate of the University of Melbourne and the Australian National University. Frank has been a lecturer at the ANU, Griffith University, the University of New England and King’s College London. He has also been Smuts Visiting Fellow in Commonwealth Studies at the University of Cambridge. The author of The Sex Lives of Australians: A History (2012) and The Eighties: The Decade That Transformed Australia (2015), Frank is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, the Australian Academy of Humanities and the Royal Historical Society. He is a Member of the Order of Australia.

Professor Frank Bongiorno AM
Please note that when you buy a ticket to this event you will automatically be sent a confirmation email. If you don’t see this email in your in-box please check your Spam Mail or Junk Mail in-boxes as well. Those attending by Zoom will be sent their Zoom log-in details 24 hours before the event.
The event will start at 5:30pm with drinks for those attending the RHSV and at 6pm for those logging in via ZOOM.

Photo caption:
Portrait of Hugh Anderson seated in the interview room, Oral History Section, National Library of Australia, 1 June 2000 [picture] / Damian McDonald

Exploring Burke and Wills - Enigmas and Curiosities
2022-08-23 13:00 - 15:00 | Lancefield Mechancis’ Institute Annexe, corner High Street and The Crescent, Lancefield, VIC, 3435, Australia
A talk by David Corke for Romsey & Lancefield Districts Historical Society

On 23 August 1860, Burke & Wills and their party stayed overnight in Lancefield.
On 23 August 2022, documentarian and historian of this journey, David Corke, will talk about his findings and his book, Exploring Burke and Wills: Enigmas and Curiosities.
This book does not tell the story of the Burke and Wills Expedition; instead, it explores several important issues in the very well-known saga —asking questions and probing some apparent enigmas, curiosities, and misunderstandings that have always been part of that tragedy.
This promises to be a fascinating afternoon about a much-discussed historical event, and we are sure Members and Friends will enjoy it.
Cost of the event is $15.00 per person which includes refreshments.
David Corke’s book will be on sale for $35.00. All enquiries to Beth Child on 0418 361 478.
Book at Trybooking: https://www.trybooking.com/CBIPN

BRIDGE ROAD RICHMOND, HISTORY
2022-08-21 14:00 - 16:00 | Bridge Road History Studio, 1 / 15 Barnett Way, Richmond, VIC, 3121, Australia
Professional historian and Richmond & Burnley Historical Society Vice President, Claire Levi, will talk about Bridge Road’s colourful history and the installation of the historical plaques between Hoddle and Church Streets. Claire worked with the Richmond Council and the Bridge Road Traders’ Association to take the project from concept to reality.
Book for catering purposes: richmondhs@optusnet.com.au or phone 9427 1800

WRITING LOCAL HISTORY WORKSHOP
2022-08-20 09:30 - 16:00 | RHSV Gallery Downstairs, 239 A'Beckett St, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000, Australia
We are thrilled that Dr Rosalie Triolo will be once again offering her Writing Local History workshops to RHSV members and friends. A gentle warning – these workshops inevitably book out. For our interstate members please note that Rosalie will be offering Zoom workshops later in 2022 and throughout 2023 across all states and territories through the auspices of the Federation of Australian Historical Societies.
THE FEDERATION OF AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETIES & THE ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF VICTORIA/ HISTORY VICTORIA SUPPORT GROUP
PRESENT

WRITING LOCAL HISTORY

ALL-DAY WORKSHOPS FOR VICTORIANS INTERESTED IN WRITING LOCAL HISTORY
Participants will:

gain new perspectives on local history
discover how to locate and use new primary and secondary sources
learn how to write and present well for different audiences, both established and new.

PRESENTED BY
DR ROSALIE TRIOLO FRHSV
Dr Rosalie Triolo has facilitated the development of History teachers at Monash University for 25 years in a career in History education spanning 40.
She is RHSV Vice-President, Chair of the History Victoria Support Group as well as a Life Member and Past-President of the History Teachers’ Association of Victoria. She is active in numerous state and national communities that support the promotion, teaching, learning and writing of history and has won numerous awards for her work.
Rosalie has lived and taught in diverse rural Victorian locations and will infuse the sessions with her deep interests in Victorian and wider Australian history.

OUR DAY
9.30-10.00 REGISTRATION
10.00-10.15 WELCOME
Acknowledgment of Country and summary of the work of RHSV
10.15-10.45 SESSION 1
Celebrating our successes and setting new goals
What have been successful local histories written by us and by other local historians? What has made the histories ‘successful’? What do we want to gain from the day? What might be our next projects?
10-45-11.30 SESSION 2
Broadening our perspectives (Part I)
Which perspectives and whose voices have we included in past writing? Which might we include in future writing? Why? How?
11.30-12.00
Morning tea & informal discussions
12.00-1.00 SESSION 3
Broadening our perspectives (Part II)
Which perspectives and whose voices have we included in past writing? Which might we include in future writing? Why? How?
1.00-1.45
Lunch & informal discussions
1.45-2.45 SESSION 4
Locating & using new primary sources
What types of primary and secondary sources have we or other local historians used in the past? What could be new sources? Where might we find them? How could we use them?
2.45-3.30 SESSION 5
Writing that’s Exciting for Established and New Audiences
How can we best organize and present our writing? Who have been our audiences in the past? How can we maintain established audiences while attracting new?
3.30-4.00 CONCLUSION
Final questions answered, helpful relationships formed, and farewell.
This program has been developed by RHSV with the support of the John T Reid Charitable Trusts.

Initially this workshop is offered in person at the RHSV (239 A’Beckett St, Melbourne VIC 3000) on Saturday 20th August. There is no Zoom at this presentation. Morning & afternoon teas are offered to participants but it is BYO lunch or you can buy lunch at one of the many cafes nearby.
The following Saturday, 27 August, Rosalie will be repeating the same workshop to a purely ZOOM audience. To book for the ZOOM event on Saturday 27 August click here.

Edna Walling - an unusual life
2022-08-18 18:00 - 20:00 | Mueller Hall, Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens, Birdwood Avenue, Melbourne, 3004, Australia
Following the Australian Garden History Society’s AGM, Sara Hardy will speak on ‘Edna Walling’- an unusual life’.
Sara Hardy is a playwright, biographer, novelist and former actor. Sara was inspired to write her first biography, The Unusual Life of Edna Walling, after portraying the famous Australian landscape designer in a theatre performance.
Drinks and light refreshments will be available from 5:30 and the AGM begins at 6:00pm.
The talk begins at 6:15pm and will be followed by Q&A and book signing. Cash sales only.
LOCATION: Mueller Hall, National Herbarium
COST: $20 AGHS members, $25 non-members
BOOKINGS: Via this TryBooking link.
Copies of Sara’s book will be available for purchase on the night.
A nomination form can be emailed to those with an interest in garden history who would like to join our committee. We welcome new members who can help us to continue to organise stimulating and worthwhile events for our membership. If you have experience or interest in event organisation or with heritage landscapes and garden design, your contribution would be valued. If you have any questions or would like to know what’s involved, please call Wendy on 0408 340 967 or email at aghsvicbranch2@gmail.com

Photo caption: Edna Walling, c1927. Portrait by Francie Young of Collins Street, Melbourne

Researching Your Indian Ancestors
2022-08-18 16:00 - 17:00 | Thomastown Library
It is Family History Month at Yarra Plenty Regional Library. The culture of India has been shaped not only by its long history, unique geography and diverse demography but also by its ancient heritages. 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 years. However, due to the influence of Western culture and the migration of Indian people to foreign shores, the rich culture, values, and family history of India are disappearing.
Most Indian family history has been traditionally maintained only within families and has been often passed down from generation to generation, with children hearing their stories from their “elders” from early childhood.
In this session, Family Historian Smita Biswas will share other basic steps and tips to get more clues about your Indian family roots, including understanding the history of India, surnames and official resources.
Thomastown Library, 52 Main Street, Thomastown, Vic.

Georgiana Molloy- celebrating one of Australia’s first female botanists
2022-08-17 17:00 - 18:00 | ZOOM, Join from anywhere in the world
Presented by Friends of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne Inc
This online talk tells the extraordinary story of Georgiana Molloy, one of Australia’s first internationally successful female botanists. Georgiana and her husband, Captain John Molloy, who emigrated to Australia in 1830 with the first group of European settlers to the remote southwest of Western Australia. Here, despite personal tragedy, Georgiana’s passion for flora was ignited. Entirely self-taught, she gathered specimens of indigenous flora from Augusta and Busselton that are now held in some of the world’s leading herbarium collections
Our presenter, Bernice Barry lives on WA’s southwest coast near the place where Georgiana arrived. Bernice has researched Georgiana’s own writings and notes and will share the stories of this botanist whose appreciation and wonder of the landscape around her became her salvation and legacy.
Bernice’s meticulously researched book, Georgiana Molloy: The Mind That Shines is available to order from her publisher.
Bookings essential.

No Ordinary Convict
2022-08-17 14:00 - 15:00 | Eltham Library
It is Family History Month at Yarra Plenty Regional Library. or much of her life, Janine Marshall Wood, a former English, History and French teacher, has been gripped by the remarkable story of John Hughes, his leadership in the Rebecca Riots, his convict years and life afterwards in Tasmania. She has retold this tale countless times to audiences of all ages throughout Australia – sometimes even in French.
The Rebecca Riots (1839–1844), a protest movement that galvanised and amused much of the Western world, was known for its audaciousness and humour. Their aim was to alleviate the hardship of unfair tollgate charges in rural Wales. One of its leaders (or Rebeccas) was John Hughes (Jac Ty-isha), who is the subject of Janine’s recent book “No ordinary convict: a Welshman called Rebecca”.
“No Ordinary Convict: a Welshman called Rebecca” addresses the context from which this extraordinary movement arose and then traces John Hughes’ background, arrest, trial, petitions for freedom and voyage to Van Diemen’s Land. Simultaneously, and throughout the entire book, there are comparisons and contrasts between other Rebeccaites and the entire convict population.
Copies of “No ordinary convict: a Welshman called Rebecca” will be available for sale.
Image: Painting by John Wynne Hopkins, 2021
Eltham Library, Panther Place, Eltham, Vic.

What’s behind discovery?
2022-08-17 12:00 - 13:00 | ZOOM, Join from anywhere in the world
Popular histories of science often tell a story of progress based around great ideas and great individuals. However, historians and philosophers of science have long pointed to the other factors that are involved – social structures, economic forces and the combined talents of many people.
Join us for this special History and Philosophy of Science Seminar to explore the factors that lie behind scientific discovery, in conversation with historian of quantum mechanics, Kristian Camilleri, and particle physicist Suzie Sheehy, author of “the matter of Everything: Twelve experiments that changed our world”. Kristian has an interest in how personality shapes the progress of science, and Suzie’s book focuses on the material nature of experiments as well as the contribution of often-unsung women in science.
Together they will go behind the common ‘great man’ stories of science to explore the nature of discovery.
The History and Philosophy of Science program at the University of Melbourne is one of the oldest HPS departments in the world. In today’s world, understanding how science works is more important than ever.
This event is also being broadcast online:
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For more information click here

PRESENTERS

SENIOR LECTURER IN MEDICAL ACCELERATOR PHYSICS, UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE

Dr Suzie Sheehy obtained a first-class honours degree in physics from the University of Melbourne in her native Australia in 2006, before completing a DPhil at the University of Oxford in 2010. During her DPhil she worked on designing a new type of particle accelerator for cancer treatment using protons and light ions, as part of the Particle Accelerator for MEdicaL Applications or ‘PAMELA’ project, under the supervision of Prof. Ken Peach.
She was then awarded the prestigious 2010 Brunel Research Fellowship from the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 and from 2010 to 2013 was based in the ASTeC Intense Beams Group at the STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab in Oxfordshire. Here she worked on designing new and challenging high power proton accelerators for future applications, based on the ‘Fixed Field Alternating Gradient’ accelerator principle.
From November 2013 to March 2015, she was a Senior Accelerator Physicist in the ASTeC Intense Beams Group, developing research collaborations with groups in Japan and focusing on several aspects of fundamental beam physics, novel high intensity hadron accelerators and accelerator characterisation.
Dr Sheehy joined Oxford Physics in April 2015 on a joint appointment with STFC/ASTeC to continue her research on the topic of high-power hadron accelerators and to further contribute to the John Adams Institute training and education programmes. From October 2017, she is a Royal Society University Research Fellow in Oxford Physics. You can learn more about her research and collaborations here.
Alongside her research, Dr Sheehy is passionate about the promotion and communication of science, for which she has received several awards. In 2010 she received the esteemed British Science Association Lord Kelvin Award and the University of Oxford Vice Chancellors Civic Award for her work in presenting science to school and public audiences. Dr Sheehy is regularly invited to present lectures at the Royal Institution, Institute of Physics and other venues. In 2014 and 2015 she co-presented large headline shows at the Big Bang Fair to audiences totaling 12,000 people each year alongside TV presenter and food writer

SENIOR LECTURER
HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES

Dr Kristian Camilleri is a lecturer in the History and Philosophy of Science program in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies. After studying physics and HPS at Melbourne University, he completed his PhD in HPS at Melbourne University in 2005.
Kristian has published in the history and philosophy of modern physics, and has collaborated with other scholars from around the world on the History and Foundations of Quantum Physics project. In 2009 he published a book entitled ‘Heisenberg and the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics: The Physicist as Philosopher’ with Cambridge University Press.
His research interests include the interpretations of quantum mechanics, the interplay between culture, philosophy and physics in the first half of the twentieth century, the structure of thought experiments in science and and the changing role of ‘popular science’ in the scientific culture of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Kristian has taught across a range of subjects in HPS ranging from the history of science, social studies of technology, and the philosophy of science. He has supervised postgraduate students working in a variety of areas including the history of modern physics, philosophy of science and social theory. He currently teaches an introductory history of science first year subject called ‘From Plato to Einstein’, a second year subject ‘Gd and the Natural Sciences’ with Rev Dr Stephen Ames, and the third year HPS capstone subject ‘Knowledge in the Making’.

Wodonga Family History Society: Life on the Lake
2022-08-17 09:30 - 17:00 | 167 Distillery Road, Wahgunyah, VIC 3687, 167 Distillery Road, Wahgunyah, VIC, 3687, Australia
Join us for “Life on the Lake”
An inside look at what life was like around Lake Moodemere, Rutherglen and the Carlyle Cemetery
WHEN: Wednesday 17th August 2022
WHERE: Meet at Pfeiffer’s Wines: 167 Distillery Road, Wahgunyah Vic 3687
TIME: 9.30 am
AGENDA:

Using own transportation; follow the guides for a view of Lake Moodemere and the old Lake Moodemere school site.
After viewing the lake return to Pfeiffer’s Winery for Morning Tea
Guest Speaker: Nyree Wiggins – Historian and Genealogist “Early life on and around Lake Moodemere” – The people and places past.
Lunch – Pfeiffer’s Winery – History of Pfeiffer’s
Tour of the Carlyle Cemetery: guided by Nyree Wiggins
Rutherglen Historical Society – Common School Museum

Optional – Afternoon Tea – Caffeine n Machine Rutherglen
COST: $45 per head
BOOKINGS: Essential and paid by 10th August 2022
To Book Email – secretary@wodongafamilyhistorysociety.org or Phone 60563220 0447035725
Please bring warm clothing and substantial footwear – Carlyle Cemetery is fairly flat but has rough patches.

Free Walk & Talk with Professor Tim Entwisle at Wattle Park
2022-08-14 10:00 - 12:00 | Wattle Park, Monsborough Dve, Burwood, VIC, 3125, Australia
Come and join the Australian Garden History Society for a leisurely stroll with Professor Tim Entwisle to explore the history of the site and surviving plantings.
BYO picnic morning tea and your stories of the park.
The Australian Garden History Society are offering this wonderful event for their members only – you’ll have to join the society if you aren’t already a member.
Price: FREE for members & their guests
Enquires: Lynda Entwisle 0466 925 370
Getting there:
By car – enter via Monsborough Drive off Riversdale Road, Burwood
Tram : Tram number 70, alight at stop 58 or 59
Meet at the Chalet carpark. Please note that Parks Victoria is currently undertaking works in the park so access via Monsborough Drive may be restricted on the day. Plenty of parking is available on Riversdale Road.
Please click here to register. Registration is not obligatory but will assist if we need to communicate changes in meeting arrangements with you before the event.

Eltham Historical Society meeting: Photographs of John Henry (Harry) Clark
2022-08-13 14:00 - 15:30 | Eltham Senior Citizens’ Centre, Library Place, Eltham, VIC, 3095, Australia
A prominent photographer in the early days of Eltham was John Henry (Harry) Clark. At the regular Eltham & District Historical Society meeting in August they will explore some selected Clark images from the collection and, with some, try to show the current locations where the photographs were taken.
As always, Society members and visitors are most welcome to attend this meeting, to be held in the Eltham Senior Citizens’ Centre, Library Place, Eltham.

From the Eltham & District Historical Society Newsletter
J.H.Clark – photographer by Peter Pidgeon
John Henry (Harry) Clark born 1877 was the youngest of three boys born to William Henry Clark (1823-1877) and Maria White (1843-1914). Following William’s death that same year, Maria formed a relationship with Robert Conley who took on her young family and another son, Robert Conley Jnr, was born 1880. Maria and Robert married in 1885.
John and his brothers, William Charles Clark (1872-1945), Clement Kent Clark (1874-1912) operated a photography business (Clark Bros.) from 25 Thomas Street, Windsor near Prahran during the period c.1894 to 1914.
Following the death of Clement in September 1912 and their mother in 1914, the Clark Bros business appears to have dissolved, the premises demolished with a new house under construction by 1915.
John appears to have set up business independently in 1914 operating from 29 Moor Street, Fitzroy where he was registered in the 1914 and 1915 Electoral Rolls. By 1916 John had relocated to Eltham where he continued as a photographer and took many of the early images around the district of Little Eltham. It is understood he boarded with widow Mrs Thekla Jarrold with whom he may have taken rooms during earlier visits since 1910.
Around 1930 John changed professions from Photographer to Bootmaker. He became well regarded as a leather worker of expertise who also crafted horse harnesses. He opened a small bootmaker’s shop built by Thekla Jarrold on her property, near the pond at the bottom of the hill.
John never married and continued his profession as a bootmaker from this little shop, maintaining a close relationship with Thekla until her death in 1943. His bootmaker’s shop remains today beside the White Cloud cottage and is one of only three remaining shops in the Little Eltham area from the early 20th century.

The Emperor Gold Mine, Fiji, by Lee Spencer
2022-08-13 13:00 - 14:00 | ZOOM, Join from anywhere in the world
An invitation from The Australasian Mining History Association to join in their next ZOOM talk.

The Emperor Gold Mine, Fiji: Mines on and off since 1932 and continues to show the colour of gold, remaining one of the world long continuous mining areas.

The Emperor Gold Mine in Fiji is one of the worlds largest epithermal gold deposits with an active operational history extending over 80 years and thus one of the worlds longest lived gold mines.
The Mine was discovered by prospectors who undertook arduous exploration over a number of years culminating in the discovery of payable gold in 1932. There followed Australian venture capitalists, a stock market boom for Fijian gold stocks with the inevitable crash and subsequent development into one of the worlds premier gold mines.
Challenges had to be overcome before this lofty point was achieved, these included the unique geology, telluride metallurgy and an untrained work force all within a country emerging from their colonial past. The Emperor Gold Mine is now undergoing a revival with new shareholders and investment in ageing infrastructure against a backdrop of robust gold prices and increasing mining reserves.

You can pass this onto friends and associates who may have an interest in mining history.
If you have any information, photos, artefacts or an association with the Emperor Gold Mine you will have the opportunity to present your association in the Q&A session.
Please register if you want to talk in the Q&A to ensure you will have a turn.
TO REGISTER YOUR ATTENDANCE
The event is promoted internationally through this Eventbrite link:
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PS: The 26th AMHA Conference will be held face-to-face in Burra, South Australia from 18-25 September 2022
For more information, visit the AMHA website

School of Historical and Philosophical Studies Fellows & Associates Annual Research Day
2022-08-12 09:00 - 17:00 | RHSV Gallery Downstairs, 239 A'Beckett St, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000, Australia
School of Historical and Philosophical Studies Fellows & Associates Annual Research Day
Friday 12 August 2022 from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
to be held at the
Royal Historical Society of Victoria
239 a’Beckett Street, Melbourne

On Friday 12 August, the SHAPS Fellows & Associates will hold their first Research Day since 2019. RHSV members are invited to attend.
Our conference day includes papers by Australian and French historians John Lack, Helen Davies, Jean Ely, Greg Burgess, Rosemary Francis, Wendy Dick, Richard Gillespie, Tony Ward and Fay Woodhouse. It will traverse terrain such as radicals, rags and revues in 1950s and 1960s Melbourne, the immigrant Gagliardi brothers, the 1872 Education Act and centralised education, a sequel to the Emile and Isaac Pereire story, early inhabitants of the Hunter River, a federated Australia, the 150 years of the Prisoners’ Aid Society and the importance of kindness.
For abstracts visit the SHAPS Facebook page: https://fb.me/e/1UP2l9c8v
The cost of $60 for this fabulous day of papers includes morning and afternoon tea, lunch and drinks at the end of the day.
COSTS:

$60 full day Fellows & Associates;
$40 half day (morning or afternoon);
$40 Zoom attendance;
$30 Student rate

Direct debit: BSB 063238 A/c: 1127 1070 OR
Book on TRYBOOKING – click below on
https://www.trybooking.com/CBIQE
PROGRAM
9:00 Arrival and Registration
9:20 Opening
9:30 – 10:45: Session 1
John Lack: Federated Australia: an ‘imagined community’?
Richard Gillespie: ‘Rags, Revues and Radicals: Student ‘Happenings’ in the 1950s and 1960s’
10:45 – 11:15: Break
11:15 – 12:45: Session 2
Rosemary Francis: ‘Finding the Links: The Gagliardi Brothers in Australia 1877-1914.
Wendy Dick: ‘She is an active, industrious good girl, her parents residing in this town’: teachers, patrons, and the Victorian Public Service Act 1883.
Jean Ely: ‘How Centralised has Australian Education Become and Why?’
12:45 – 13:30: Lunch
13:30 – 15:00: Session 3
Greg Burgess: ‘Return to Coquun. First Impressions of the British on the Hunter River, 1801’
Helen Davies: “Herminie and Fanny Pereire: writing the sequel to Emile and Isaac during a pandemic”
15:00 – 15:15: Break
15:15 – 16:15: Session 4
Tony Ward: ‘The Importance of the Kindness of Strangers’
Fay Woodhouse: ‘The VACRO Story: 1872 to 2022’
16:15: Close
Drinks. Guest: Professor Margaret Cameron, Head of School, SHAPS

ALL ENQUIRIES: Greg Burgess on 0419 466 612

THE CONTRIBUTION OF ARCHITECT J A K CLARKE TO SHEPPARTON AND DISTRICT
2022-08-10 18:00 - 19:00, 2022-08-10 13:00 - 14:00 | Senior Citizen’s Centre Shepparton, 132 Welsford Street, Shepparton, VIC, 3632, Australia
The Greater Shepparton Biennial Bruce Wilson Memorial Heritage Lecture 2022
What do the grandstand at the Shepparton Showgrounds, St Brendan’s Church, Ambermere and many of our lovely older buildings have in common? They are just some of the works of Shepparton’s prolific turn-of-the-century architect John Augustus Kenny Clarke.
This year hear a local tell us about the renowned and engaging architect, cycling enthusiast and Agricultural Society stalwart J A K Clarke.
Evan Lloyd, heritage enthusiast and Goulburn Valley local, will deliver the 2022 Heritage Lecture. Evan, having studied Architecture and Cultural Heritage Management at University and growing up in a Clarke designed home, is well connected to Shepparton’s own architect who designed many notable public buildings and graceful private houses in the district.
Wednesday 10 August 2022 | 1pm & 6pm
Senior Citizens’ Centre,
132 Welsford Street, Shepparton
The 6pm Lecture will also be available interactively on Council’s website and YouTube
ALL WELCOME! FREE ENTRY
To RSVP, contact Council council@shepparton.vic.gov.au (attn: Planning and Building Support)
or phone: (03) 5832 9700

It Was the Best of Times... 2022 Bruce Turner Presentation
2022-08-09 19:00 - 20:00 | Prahran Mechanics Institute, 39 St Edmonds Road, Prahran, VIC, 3181, Australia
Ross Campbell traces the story of his lifetime involvement in cinema and films throughout Melbourne. From growing up two streets away from The Camden and witnessing the unique quality of nitrate film, to the arrival of CinemaScope. His association with the Melbourne International Film Festival (and its predecessor), and involvement in setting up the Erwin Rado Theatre in Fitzroy as an in-house preview cinema for the festival.
From the Cinema and Theatre Historical Society of Australia (CATHS) at the PMI Victorian History Library.
Book by copying this link into your internet browser:
https://www.trybooking.com/CAXYW
Or phone us (03) 9510 3393

MARKETING 101
2022-08-08 12:00 - 13:00 | ZOOM, Join from anywhere in the world
In August Christina will discuss how to create different types of social media posts for your collections: a practical guide from A to B. These forums have become wonderful idea-generators and there is a real sharing of experience and ideas between historical societies and those taking place – all terrific. If you are interested in improving your society’s marketing these forums are a simple and easy way of doing so. Christina Browning, our RHSV Marketing Manager, brings a wealth of experience to the RHSV – and not just in social media. Christina started her working life as a journalist before seguing into marketing.
The forums are low-key and they not recorded. You can bring your questions and problems and you can also ask Christina to tackle some specific issue in a future forum.
They will be held on the 2nd Monday of each month from 12pm – 1pm.
Find previous months how to documents on the Other Resources page of our website here
Zoom log-in details for the remainder of 2022 (these times are for Melbourne so AEST until October when we start daylight saving – AEDT)
12noon 8 Aug, 2022
12noon 12 Sep, 2022
12noon 10 Oct, 2022
12noon 14 Nov, 2022
Please download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.
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Join Zoom Meeting
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Writing Migrant Family History
2022-08-04 19:00 - 20:00 | Mill Park Library, 394 Plenty Road, Mill Park, VIC, Australia
It’s Family History Month at Yarra Plenty Regional Library. Daniela Zannoni was born in northern Italy and migrated to Australia when she was three years old. The idea to write her family’s story evolved through hearing her mother continually recounting the hardships she had endured.
In this session, Daniela will discuss her family’s migration journey and the consequences of her parent’s decision to make Australia their new home. She will also share her process of writing and publishing migrant family history.
Copies of her book: My Mother’s Memories: the successes and tragedies of an Italian migrant family will be for sale
Daniela Zannoni is a retired Italian teacher and interpreter. She has three Italian degrees — Bachelor of Arts (majoring in Italian), Bachelor of Teaching, and a Diploma of Interpreting. Daniela’s passion is writing Italian migration stories. In 2021, Daniela completed a Diploma in Family History, to enhance her skills in this field.
This event will also be repeated on Monday 8 August from 2.00 pm to 3.00 pm
Mill Park Library, 394 Plenty Road, Mill Park, Vic.

'Re-Living the Early Days': Memory, childhood and self-indigenisation in Hotham/North Melbourne.
2022-08-03 19:15 - 20:45 | City of Melbourne Bowls Club, 603 - 615 Queensberry St, North Melbourne 3051., North Melbourne, victoria, 3051, Australia
This talk will analyse an archive of letters, written in 1934–5 during the centenary celebrations of Melbourne, by adults who were children in the 1860s and 70s in Hotham. Through these letters we can uncover a narrative of self-indigenisation of the settler residents, that is their positioning of white colonial-born children of Hotham as natural inhabitants of the area.
Several themes in the letters evidence this narrative: conquering the space through play; local personalities positioned in the settler space; pride in key colonial moments; positioning First Nations people as wandering fringe-dwellers; and claims of colonial childhood as ‘original’ or ‘native’ to the area.
This talk offers the opportunity to engage with an appreciation of how the literal and symbolic building of Hotham/North Melbourne was/is embedded in the attempted erasure of its Traditional Owners.

Celebrating 150 Years of State Schooling in Victoria
2022-08-03 14:00 - 15:30 | Watsonia Library, 4-6 Ibbottson Street, Watsonia, 4-6 Ibbottson Street,, Watsonia, VIC, Australia
It is Family History Month at Yarra Plenty Regional Library.
The 150th anniversary of State Schooling in Victoria provides fresh opportunities for family, school and local historians.
Some type of ‘formal schooling’ has played part in most families’ and local communities’ lives, particularly in recent times. The Education Act of 1872 (Victoria) was the first of its kind in the world, offering free, compulsory and secular education to Victoria’s children aged 6-15 years old. Although there have been exceptions since ‘day one’, the anniversary ‘spotlights’ resources and approaches, both old and new, for writing richer family and local histories.
Dr Rosalie Triolo will share snapshots of both as relevant to family historians, referencing also her research on Education Department schools and their families in World War I as part of our Family History Month program this August.
Dr Rosalie Triolo is a senior lecturer at Monash University and writes and presents widely in History Education and history of Australian education. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria, Immediate Past President of the History Teachers’ Association of Victoria, a Life Member and awardee for Outstanding Service, and currently an elected HTAV Director. She is a Past- Vice-President of the History Teachers’ Association of Australia and formerly its delegate to the Australian Historical Association; currently an elected councillor of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria; and, invited as Victoria’s representative to the council of the Australian National Museum of Education.
Watsonia Library, 4-6 Ibbottson Street, Watsonia
Image: Kangaroo Ground School, 5th and 6th Classes 1890s. Shire of Eltham Pioneers Collection, Yarra Plenty Regional Library in partnership with Eltham District Historical Society

Open House weekend: guided historical tours of Brighton Cemetery
2022-07-31 11:00 - 15:30, 2022-07-30 11:00 - 15:30 | Brighton General Cemetery, North Road, Caulfield South, Victoria, 3162, Australia
Open House Melbourne – July 30th & 31st
The Brighton Cemetery is over 160 years old and full of notable people that made Melbourne memorable: Sir John Monash; Carlo Catani – Civil Engineer; Charles Ogg, Architect; George Frederick Ballantyne, Architect; and William Guilfoyle, Landscape Gardener and Botanist are but a few of the many people who lie resting within the walls of the cemetery. A self-paced walk around the notable internments and a short formal tour led by the Brighton Cemetorians are available on both Saturday and Sunday. Short Guided Tours at 11am, 12pm, 1pm and 2pm on both days.

OPEN HOUSE MELBOURNE
2022-07-31 10:00 - 16:00 | Royal Historical Society of Victoria, 239 A'Beckett St, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia
On Sunday 31st of July, as part of Open House Melbourne, we will be offering free guided tours of the Australian Army Medical Corps Drill Hall which is now home to the RHSV and several performing arts companies.
In light of the upsurge in COVID cases we ask that everyone taking a tour wears a mask. We will have masks available if people forget. This is an OH&S decision by the RHSV Council to protect our staff and volunteers in their workplace.
Our wonderful building is an art deco masterpiece built in 1938 as Australia and the rest of the world readied themselves for another world war.
From 10am until 4pm we will be offering guided tours every 30 minutes (starting at 10am, 10:30am etc). We will also have tea/coffee on tap for those of you rushing around on a tight schedule.

The featured materials in this late 1930s art deco building are high quality brick and plaster work with strong vertical and horizontal lines, fluted pilasters, arches, keystones, coffered ceilings, built-in seats and Dutch (or stable) doors. Many of the original features are still in place.
Functional and utilitarian, the building has two large drill halls with offices along their northern side. The halls are separated by a public entrance foyer which leads off A’Beckett Street. Messes are placed at the centre – for sergeants – and at the east and west ends of the building – for ‘other ranks’ and officers respectively.
The drill hall had a number of functions: as an indoor parade ground for marching and equipment drill; a gymnasium and for physical training; a social centre offering activities such as dances, film nights etc, and for displays. The mezzanine (the ceiling of a row of offices) allows for observation of the activities on the floor of the hall. The ceiling design itself is reminiscent of suburban cinemas of the time.
By 1990 the Army Medical Corps Drill Hall had been added to the Historic Building register for its state-wide architectural and historical significance. The western end of the building became the premises of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria in August 1999.

Bookings are not necessary. Tours are limited to 12 persons and, if needed, we’ll have more than one tour embarking at the same time.

Cataloguing Clinics 2022
2022-07-28 11:00 - 12:00 | ZOOM, Join from anywhere in the world
Jillian Hiscock, the RHSV Collections Manager, started these free cataloguing clinics during the early days of COVID and they suit Zoom very well. The clinics run for an hour from 11am – 12noon on the 4th Thursday of each month. It 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. With our membership scattered across Australia please remember that this is Melbourne time – AEDT in summer and AEST in winter.
Jillian always prepares some material on some specific queries but questions are encouraged and, remember, a problem shared is a problem halved. The clinics are conversational in format rather than a seminar. If you are new to cataloguing, or an old hand, you will find plenty to interest you in these sessions. Jillian often has material which is emailed out to attendees after the clinic.
The remaining clinics in 2022 will be held (via Zoom) on:

Jul 28, 2022 11:00 AM (how RHSV uses eHive cataloguing system)
Aug 25, 2022 11:00 AM
Sep 22, 2022 11:00 AM
Oct 27, 2022 11:00 AM
Nov 24, 2022 11:00 AM

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AGM and Speaker Series talk - Researching a Roll of Honour
2022-07-27 19:30 - 21:00 | Join via Zoom
The Glen Eira Historical Society AGM will be held via Zoom on Wednesday 27 July at 7.30pm. Following the AGM (approx 20 mins), will be a talk by author Jenny O’Donnell on “Researching a Roll of Honour”.
Register in advance for this meeting:
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Preserving your memories
2022-07-20 14:00 - 15:30 | ZOOM, Join from anywhere in the world
A free Yarra Libraries Event
Do you have old photos, letters, small drawings and/ or documents that you’re worried about preserving safely long term? Learn about the different ways you can save them and save your favourite items.
Registration required. Email contact will be made prior to event start with event details.
If you have accessibility questions or requirements, please contact us at yarralibraries@yarracity.vic.gov.au or on 1300 695 427.

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Australia's Great Depression
2022-07-19 17:30 - 19:00 | RHSV Gallery Downstairs, 239 A'Beckett St, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000, Australia
We are thrilled that Joan Beaumont, Professor Emerita of History at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University, will deliver our July lecture on her profound history of Australia’s Great Depression.
Beaumont says, ‘The pandemic has much common with the Great Depression. Australians today have confronted external threats, that neither they nor their governments could control. Everyone has had to dig deep for resilience. The pandemic like the Depression confirmed how important local and state loyalties are. Voters expected their leaders to protect them, and only them. However, there was one major difference in contrast to the Depression: today’s governments utilised sophisticated policy tools, well beyond the imagination of the Depression-era governments, to prevent the social disaster on the scale seen in 1929 – 1932.’How a nation shattered by the Great War survived the worst economic crisis it has ever faced.”
Some generations are born unlucky. Australians who survived the horrors of the Great War and the Spanish flu epidemic that followed were soon faced with the shock of the Great Depression. Today we remember long dole queues, shanty towns and destitute men roaming the country in search of work. With over a third of the workforce unemployed in 1932, Australia was one of the hardest hit countries in the world. Yet this is not the complete story. In this wide-ranging account of the Great Depression in Australia, Joan Beaumont shows how high levels of debt and the collapse of wool and wheat prices left Australia particularly exposed in the world’s worst depression. Threatened with national insolvency, and with little room for policy innovation, governments resorted to austerity and deflation. Violent protests erupted in the streets and paramilitary movements threatened the political order. It might have ended very differently, but Australia’s democratic institutions survived the ordeal. Australia’s people, too, survived. While many endured great hardship, anger, anxiety and despair, most ‘made do’ and helped each other. Some even found something positive in the memory of this personal and communal struggle. Australia’s Great Depression details this most impressive narrative of resilience in the nation’s history.
Joan Beaumont is also the author of the magisterial account of Australia’s experience of World War I, Broken Nation which, among other awards, won the 2014 Prime Minister’s History Award.
Buying the book
When you purchase a ticket to this event you will be given a code which will give you a $10 discount when you purchase a copy of Australia’s Great Depression from the RHSV bookshop.
Buying a ticket
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‘Beaumont’s brilliant study is the comprehensive history of the Great Depression that we have been waiting for.’ Professor Stephen Garton AM, The University of Sydney
‘A magisterial account of an immense tragedy, told with authority, poignancy and drama.’ Frank Bongiorno, Professor of History, The Australian National University
‘A masterpiece by one of Australia’s most esteemed historians.’ David Day, historian

Acts of Reckoning
2022-07-14 18:30 - 19:30 | The Wheeler Centre, 176 Little Londsale Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia
How does Australia’s relationship to its settler colonial past shape our shared future? And can we ever achieve true healing if we don’t confront history head on?
Griffith Review’s Acts of Reckoning issue examines some of the complexities at play in Australia’s long and fraught journey toward centering First Nations peoples, cultures and knowledges.
Join the Wheeler Centre for this special panel event as lawyer, sotryteller and Griffith Review contributing editor, Teela Reid, activist and Uluru Statement from the Heart architect, Megan Davis and historian Henry Reynolds (appearing via a video feed) reckon with questions of history, truth-telling and decolonisation.
With host Paul Barclay, they’ll discuss the need for homegrown truth-telling, consider what the recent political power shift in Canberra means for constitutional recognition for First Peoples, and imagine what might be possible for Australia’s narrative when we finally walk together toward a better future.
Bookings: https://my.wheelercentre.com/7258

Slingshots, ragdolls and knucklebones: A history of Australian children’s play
2022-07-14 10:30 - 11:30 | ZOOM, Join from anywhere in the world
What can objects, photographs and recollections teach us about the history of childhood? In this talk, historian Carla Pascoe Leahy discusses the history of children’s play in the twentieth century, drawing upon evocative examples from her own research and Museums Victoria’s collections.
Dr Carla Pascoe Leahy is an historian at the University of Tasmania where she teaches in the Diploma of Family History. She is also an Honorary Associate at Museums Victoria and Joint Editor of Studies in Oral History, the journal of Oral History Australia.

The event is being presented, in partnership, by the Genealogical Society of Victoria and the Royal Historical Society of Victoria
