Events
-
-
KALEIDOSCOPE
RHSV Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett St, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaThis exhibition is biography imagined through the lens of a Kaleidoscope. The viewer is offered fragments of the lives represented here. There is no linear narrative. Each time the kaleidoscope turns, a different story emerges. There are repeating patterns but different emphases and new ways of seeing, new reflections, new refractions. No one story dominates and one story does not fit all.
-
Next Steps with Trove
OnlineTrove is a National Library of Australia initiative providing a single point of entry to a treasure trove of artefacts, curiosities and stories from Australia’s cultural, community and research institutions.
Read More...Free -
VICTORIA’S EARLIEST POTTERIES
Royal Historical Society of Victoria 239 A'Beckett St, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaVictoria’s Earliest Potteries - Lecture and Exhibition Guest Speaker: Gregory Hill, who is recognised as the leading authority on Australian Colonial Pottery and Australian Art Pottery. His book, Victoria’s Earliest
Read More...$25 -
Slingshots, ragdolls and knucklebones: A history of Australian children’s play
ZOOM Join from anywhere in the worldWhat 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,
Read More...$5 – $10 -
Acts of Reckoning
The Wheeler Centre 176 Little Londsale Street, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaHow 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, storyteller 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.
-
Australia’s Great Depression
RHSV Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett St, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaWe 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
Read More...$10 – $20.00 -
Preserving your memories
ZOOM Join from anywhere in the worldDo 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.
-
AGM and Speaker Series talk – Researching a Roll of Honour
Join via ZoomThe 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
Read More...Free -
Cataloguing Clinics 2022
ZOOM Join from anywhere in the worldFree monthly cataloguing clinics via Zoom. 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.
Free -
Open House weekend: guided historical tours of Brighton Cemetery
Brighton General Cemetery North Road, Caulfield South, Victoria, AustraliaThe 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.
239 A'Beckett Street Melbourne, Victoria, 3000 
03 9326 9288 
office@historyvictoria.org.au 
Office & Library: Weekdays 10am-4pm
