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

  • Art exhibition: Iconic Footscray

    Footscray Connectivity Centre 47 Paisley St, Footscray, VIC

    Iconic Footscray is a colourful celebration of Footscray and surrounds, featuring illustrations by local graphic designer Susan Fitzgerald. The exhibition features much-loved and landmark businesses, past and present, including Footscray
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  • THE WWI BATTLEFIELDS OF VERDUN

    Ellis Cottage 10 Nillumbik Square, Diamond Creek, VIC, Australia

    Nillumbik Historical Society invites you to a presentation and talk, The WWI Battlefields of Verdun, by Terry Phillips at 2pm Sunday 16 March 
    Terry has visited the battlefields of France and Belgium for many years. He is a military history expert who regularly gives talks and presentations to community groups and schools. The presentation will be followed by a light afternoon tea

  • Feminists to felons: exhibiting women’s history

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

    Each year, to celebrate Women's History Month, the RHSV offers our Women's History lecture, part of our Distinguished Lecture series. Museums in the 1970s were largely masculine preserves, staffed almost
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    $10.00 – $20.00
  • The World of Mab Grimwade

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

    Born into a genteel family of pastoralists and investors in colonial Victoria, Mabel Louise Kelly (1887–1973), or ‘Mab’ to those who knew her, would grow up to make an enormous
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  • Louise Lovely’s Labassa

    Labassa 2 Manor Grove, Caulfield North, Victoria, Australia

    Session 1: 6pm - 7.30pm Session 2: 8pm - 9.30pm Film pioneer Louise Lovely was Australia’s most successful actress in Hollywood’s early silent era and Labassa’s most celebrated resident of
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  • CATALOGUING CLINICS 2025

    ZOOM Join from anywhere in the world

    Join Jillian Hiscock, the RHSV Collections Manager, each month in this informative and easy-going Zoom forum on all aspects of cataloguing collections for historical societies. Jillian has a different topic each month and is happy to be guided by those who attend as to what they would like covered in upcoming clinics. Bring your questions (no matter the topic) - this is an interactive space where questions are encouraged. The RHSV does not endorse any particular cataloguing software - we believe it is horses for courses - and Jillian will talk about issues that impact on cataloguing whether you are using cataloguing cards or software.

    Free
  • The History of Georges of Collins Street

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

    Please join us on Thursday April 3rd for our next meeting and talk on GEORGES of Collins Street. Our speaker Justin Maclean will be discussing the store history, and the
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