Events
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Sector Event: Victorian Collections Day
TBAA full day of information and workshops aimed at the community collecting sector to help you achieve the best care for your collection. Hear from museum and gallery industry experts on topics including collection management, conservation and exhibition skills. Talks will cover ways to approach these topics with small budgets in mostly volunteer organisations, ideal
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CATALOGUING CLINIC
ZOOM Join from anywhere in the worldCalling all historical societies across Victoria. We are launching a new initiative - a Cataloguing Clinic conducted through Zoom. Jillian Hiscock, our RHSV Collections Manager and a very experienced librarian, will be available through Zoom to answer any queries you might have about cataloguing - or, indeed any other aspect of your collection. If you
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The Shelf Life of Zora Cross a presentation by Cathy Perkins
ZOOM Join from anywhere in the worldThe Shelf Life of Zora Cross - a presentation by Cathy Perkins Tuesday, 22 September 2020 4.45 pm for 5 pm via Zoom (link will be sent on booking) Please book numbers are limited Event ran by the Camberwell Historical Society George Fernand- enquiries@chs.org.au Australian poet and journalist Zora Cross caused a sensation in 1917
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Ross McMullin – ‘Turning Disaster into Victory: The Battle of Polygon Wood’
RHSV Officers' Mess Upstairs 239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaThe battle of Polygon Wood in September 1917 is one of the AIF’s most iconic but least understood victories. It has usually been depicted as a relatively straightforward affair — the Australians advanced behind an irresistible barrage that resembled a Gippsland bushfire, and there were inevitable casualties but no major hiccups. This interpretation is fundamentally
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The West Gate Bridge Collapse: 50 Years On
Online50 years ago, the partially-constructed West Gate Bridge collapsed, killing 35 workers and injuring 18 more. The disaster remains Australia’s worst industrial accident to this day. Join us in conversation with Tommy Watson and Danny Gardiner of the West Gate Bridge Memorial Committee to learn about that fateful day, their work on the bridge, and
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Mallee Country: Land People History. A discussion
ZOOM Join from anywhere in the worldThis is a free online Zoom event presented by Western Victorian Association of Historical Societies for History Month. The speakers are: Richard Broome, Katie Holmes and Charles Fahey ‘We often hear the phrase, "the Mallee breeds em tough." This book not only supports that but also gives a silent tip of the hat to the
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A Conversation: Dr Sue Silberberg with Dr Andrew Lemon
ZOOM Join from anywhere in the worldA History Month event. Join author, Dr Sue Silberberg in conversation with Dr Andrew Lemon about Sue's book, A Networked Community (Melbourne University Publishing). Melbourne’s first colonising expedition was funded by a group of investors including the Jewish emancipist Joseph Solomon. Thus, in Melbourne, as in the settlement of the continent itself, Jews were at
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Kew Historical Society’s Dickinson Lecture
ZOOM Join from anywhere in the worldWe hope that you will join us for this informative and entertaining lecture. To register, please contact Desley Reid on: info@kewhistoricalsociety.org.au, before the event, and you will be sent the Zoom login details. Kew Historical Society's Dickinson Lecture, to be given on Wednesday 14 October at 8pm, will be held this year via Zoom. It
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Victorian Museums and Galleries Forum
Castlemaine‘Collecting (in) 2020’ will bring together members, professionals, volunteers, students and the wider community to hear museum and gallery professionals from around the world discuss current issues in the sector.
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Using technology to bring life to stories from the past
ZOOM Join from anywhere in the worldShortlisted for this year's Victorian Community History Awards, Misadventure in Little Lon is an AR Game that promises to shake up how we interact with History! Based on a true crime in Melbourne's notorious red-light district in 1910, Misadventure In Little Lon is the debut game in the series and the world's first augmented reality true crime mobile
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