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

  • Book launch: Old North Melbourne

    RHSV, Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Join 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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    Free
  • The Convent

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

    Have 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 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
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  • Book Launch: Love, Class and Empire

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

    Join 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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    Free
  • RICHMOND: the half-forgotten world of “the Richmond Irish”

    Studio 1, Former Channel 9 Building 15 Barnett Way, Richmond, Victoria, Australia

    Speakers: 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, Australia

    All 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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  • A Monumental Egyptian Tomb In Melbourne

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

    Hidden 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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