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

  • 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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  • 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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  • Harpsdale – Celebrating 150 years

    Harpsdale Homestead 860 Craigieburn Road, Yuroke, Vic, Australia

    The homestead was built by the pioneering Brodie family in 1875. They arrived in Tasmania in 1823, from Scotland and in 1836 moved to Victoria and settled in the Bulla
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