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RICHMOND: From cottages to Colosseums – Clements Langford
Studio 1, Former Channel 9 Building 15 Barnett Way, Richmond, Victoria, AustraliaSpeaker: Peter Beer Peter has published the book: From cottages to Colosseums – Clements Langford – A Melbourne Master Builder’s Lasting Legacy. Clements Langford is Peter’s great-great grandfather. Clements, aged
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Book launch: Old North Melbourne
RHSV, Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaJoin us to celebrate the publication of Old North Melbourne, the first comprehensive book on the nineteenth-century history of Hotham/North Melbourne, by Dr Fiona Gatt. 'Like Janet McCalman's Struggletown this book is destined
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The Convent
Prahran Mechanics Institute 39 St Edmonds Road, Prahran, VIC, AustraliaHave you visited the Abbotsford Convent before? It is a beautiful place, its history, architecture, artistry, and food make it a must visit. The Abbotsford Convent was a haunted place, left to languish for years after the last of the Sisters
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CATALOGUING CLINICS 2025
ZOOM Join from anywhere in the worldJoin 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
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Book Launch: Love, Class and Empire
RHSV Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett St, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaJoin us to celebrate the publication of Love, Class and Empire by A. James Hammerton. Early twentieth-century Persia and the Persian Gulf presented a largely blank slate to the British,
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RICHMOND: the half-forgotten world of “the Richmond Irish”
Studio 1, Former Channel 9 Building 15 Barnett Way, Richmond, Victoria, AustraliaSpeakers: Chris McConville and Robert Pascoe The next talk in their series on Richmond's villages will take Chris McConville and Robert Pascoe into the half-forgotten world of "the Richmond Irish".
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Open Day at the Yarrambat Heritage Museum
Yarrambat Heritage Museum 742 Yan Yean Road, Yarrambat, Victoria, AustraliaAll day you can see: the only operational Gold Battery in our area the wool spinners in the "Len Young Woolshed" the first classroom from the Yarrambat Primary School, Vintage
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The Sound of Music at Port Phillip 1840 to 1842: featuring M. et Mme Gautrot, French stars of the colonial music scene.
RHSV Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett St, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaThe La Trobe Society and freelance historian Susan Priestley FRHSV invite you to join them for the lecture, "The Sound of Music at Port Phillip 1840 to 1842: featuring M.
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A Monumental Egyptian Tomb In Melbourne
Prahran Mechanics Institute 39 St Edmonds Road, Prahran, VIC, AustraliaHidden within a suburban Melbourne cemetery lies a remarkable piece of Egyptian-inspired architecture: the tomb of David Syme, one of the world’s first media tycoons and the influential proprietor of The
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Book Launch: Victoria – Suffering to Statehood by Michael P. Rucker
RHSV Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett St, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaJoin us to celebrate the publication of Victoria - Suffering to Statehood by Michael P. Rucker Victoria – Suffering to Statehood provides intriguing, and occasionally poignant, details of history not generally
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