Events from May 14, 2018 – October 7, 2018 – Royal Historical Society of Victoria

  • Tales from the MacRobertson International Air Races

    RHSV, Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    To celebrate Victoria’s centenary in 1934, Macpherson Robertson sponsored a great air race from England to Melbourne. There were originally 20 entrants of which only 12 arrived in Melbourne. The British winning entrants took a whisker under 3 days, the last plane to arrive took some 4 months.  The RHSV is mounting an exhibition which takes a close look at the entrants in the races (there were two races run concurrently – a speed race and a handicap race) including the most well-known entrant, the Dutch Uiver.     

  • Talk: The history of Kodak in Coburg 1961-2004

    Coburg Library Corner Waterfield and Louisa Streets, Coburg, Victoria, Australia

    At Coburg Historical Society May monthly meeting, Fiona Kinsey, Senior curator of the images and Image history including the Kodak Collection at Museums Victoria will talk on the subject of
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    Free
  • Open Day at La Trobe’s Cottge

    La Trobe's Cottage cnr Birdwood Avenue and Dallas Brooks Drive, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Spend your afternoon in the beautiful Domain, with a guided tour of the home of our first governor Charles Joseph La Trobe and his family. You will be able to
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    $5
  • FRIENDS OF LA TROBE’S COTTAGE ANNUAL LECTURE

    RHSV, Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    C J La Trobe: Jolimont plantsman Guest Speaker: Helen Botham Garden history researcher, author of La Trobe’s Jolimont: a walk round my garden, and coordinator La Trobe’s Cottage management team
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  • Cataloguing Clinic via Zoom with Jillian Hiscock

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    At the 27 May Clinic, Jillian will revisit the process of book cataloguing, both published and unpublished material. What is the information that should be captured and what is the
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    Free
  • Ern Latchford: his WWI adventures in western Europe, Persia and Russia.

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    A Zoom event. In late 1918, thousands of Australian soldiers, exhausted and scarred by war in Europe, began to head home. However, one ANZAC headed the wrong way, toward more conflict and risk in vast and frozen Siberia, thousands of miles from his fiancée waiting on the family farm in Western Victoria. This is the story of Ernest Latchford MBE MC, told through his articulate, observant letters home from three very distinct theatres of war, western Europe, Persia and Russia.

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