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

  • KALEIDOSCOPE

    RHSV Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett St, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    This 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.

  • Cataloguing Clinic – last one for 2022

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    Free 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
  • 2022 Duldig Lecture on Sculpture

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    Dr Shawn Sobers Material culture and the echoes and legacies of transatlantic enslavement - before and after the Colston statue Dr Shawn Sobers is Professor of Cultural Interdisciplinary Practice and
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  • St Kilda: Horsing Around the Cemetery

    St Kilda Cemetery Dandenong Road & Hotham Street, St Kilda East, Vic, Australia

    The Friends of St Kilda Cemetery are offering a great Spring Racing Carnival tour of the cemetery. Clair Barton leads the tour and you'll hear about the jockeys, trainers and
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  • What Ship Did You Come Out On?

    Eltham Library

    Discover the history of ships in Port Melbourne with local author Nick Cree. Nick Cree will be speaking about the ships that came through Port Melbourne in the 50's and
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    Free
  • Family History Social Group

    Family History Social Group

    Prahran Mechanics Institute 39 St Edmonds Road, Prahran, VIC, Australia

    Do you enjoy friendly conversation and family history? Share your knowledge and skills with other group members in a friendly and supportive environment while making use of the many resources
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    Free
  • What is a Drill Hall?

    RHSV Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett St, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Recently the RHSV took part in Open House Melbourne which concentrated our minds on the history and architecture of our home, the Australian Army Medical Corps Drill Hall which was built, like so many others in 1938 in the build-up to WWII. The building's history, its original purpose and its architecture are inextricably linked.  And who better to explain those connections than Mike O'Brien? Mike will be addressing Drill Halls in general - what is drill? what happens in drill halls? 

    $10 – $20