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

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  • Think Tank: orientation/training programme for young people joining historical societies

    ZOOM Join from anywhere in the world

    Murchison & District Historical Society wants to develop an orientation/training programme for young people - i.e. 14 - 18yo's - to become volunteers for their historical society. The RHSV thinks that this idea is worth putting effort into and seeing if we can develop a template that can be adopted by many historical societies. To facilitate this I’ve organised a Zoom meeting for 11am Tuesday 4 February 2025 for everyone interested to get together and share ideas and experiences and to work out what can be done. So please do join Kay and I on Zoom and bring your ideas and enthusiasm and we'll see what we can nut out together.

    Free

  • Transgender Australia: A History Since 1910

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

    Join authors Noah Riseman and Sam Elkin as they enter a conversation about trans history. They will weave together personal experience with historical examples to discuss changes to trans life
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  • Collecting Egyptology and Ancient History

    Phyllis Hore Room, Kew Library Civic Drive, Kew, Victoria, Australia

    Please join us on Thursday Feb 6th for the first Antique Collectors Club meeting of 2025. We are going Egyptian for the evening. Jennifer J. from Ankh Antiquarian Books is
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  • Pre-European Indigenous culture in the St Kilda area with Gary Presland

    St Kilda Army & Navy Club 88 Acland Street, St Kilda, Victoria, Australia

    The St Kilda area is part of the traditional lands of the Yalukit willam clan. As part of the Kulin nation, the Yalukit willam were connected to clans as far away as the Murray River. Dr Gary Presland will detail the nature of these connections and elaborate on how the Yalukit willam made a living, at the same time honouring and caring for their country.

  • Labassa Open Day

    Labassa 2 Manor Grove, Caulfield North, Victoria, Australia

    Although more than 700 people have lived at Labassa, it has miraculously survived with most of its opulent Victorian era decoration intact. Come and experience the complex richness of Labassa’s
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  • AUTOMOTIVE HISTORIANS AUSTRALIA INC HONORS REG HUNT

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

    Reg Hunt, motor dealer, racing driver, collector and property investor was one of Melbourne’s best known and successful automobilists during his working life. Maserati historian, enthusiast and long-time friend, David Zeunert, will discuss with Mark Bissett Reg’s life exploits following a light lunch at the Royal Historical Society of Victoria.

    Free – $25.00
  • Rustic painting of the Yarra river from the 1800s, before the area was surrounded by city. Instead, the landscape consists of green trees, a few tents, and in the distance, the occasional house. The image is overlaid with text promoting a curator's talk at 11am on June 10, for free.
    Curator’s talk: Yarra Birrarung Artists, Writers and the River exhibition

    Curator’s talk: Yarra Birrarung Artists, Writers and the River exhibition

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

    Join the curator, Dr Judith Buckrich, of our current exhibition Yarra Birrarung: Artists, Writers and the River in a behind-the-scenes talk about the exhibition. The exhibition is an illustrated history of life on the Yarra. Through the lens of artists and writers, the exhibition explores how life has flourished on the river, including recreation, industry and land use, as well as infrastructure, natural history and social history.

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