Events from May 14, 2018 – October 7, 2018 – Page 10 – Royal Historical Society of Victoria

  • The Life and Art of Penleigh Boyd by Colin Smith

    Camden Hotel 414 Hawthorn Road, Caulfield South, VIC, Australia

    Colin Smith will be the guest speaker at the Brighton Cemetorian's 2022 AGM. He will speak on The Life and Art of Penleigh Boyd   Theodore Penleigh Boyd (15 August 1890
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  • Public Symposium: Australasia & the Global Turn in Architectural History Symposium

    Melbourne School of Design Masson Rd, University of Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    The writing of architectural history shifted with the turn of the twenty-first century. Theoretical and methodological reassessments, as well as the study of postcolonial theories in architecture, challenged the previously accepted disciplinary canon and made the development of a global history of architecture urgent. More than twenty years later, there has been resulting literature, disciplinary reassessments, and continuous debate around the meaning of global in the history of architecture. One of the latest additions to the field, the new edition of Sir Banister Fletcher’s rebranded as Global History of Architecture (2019), is proof of the continuous scholarly interest in reframing the global.

  • Preserving Family History Collections

    Stonnington History Centre 1257 High Street, Malvern, VIC, Australia

    Do you have a collection of photographs, papers, artwork, objects from your family history that you wish to preserve? Then come along and hear Local History Technician, Dr Ainslee Meredith from
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  • Cataloguing Clinics 2022

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    Free monthly cataloguing clinics via Zoom. The clinics run for an hour from 11am – 12noon on the 4th Thursday of each month. It is a relaxed gathering of people who are finding their way through the intricacies of cataloguing material in historical collections which, as we all know, fall between a library and a museum with sometimes a bit of art gallery thrown in.

    Free
  • Launch of “Across Bass Strait”

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

    Across Bass Strait, which will be launched by The Hon Barry Jones AO, is a history of the connection which commenced in the 1840s between squatters, merchants and mariners to develop the livestock trade from the mainland to Van Diemen’s Land. The trade established nineteenth-century Gippsland as a prime beef producer exporting through Port Albert, a now-forgotten port, and this account is based on merchants’ records and letters from two families who were major players in this trade.

    Free
  • Labassa Women

    Labassa Women
    Labassa 2 Manor Grove, Caulfield North, Victoria, Australia

    Labassa mansion is hosting an eight-day exhibition celebrating the women who lived there across two centuries. This 8-day exhibition opens on Sunday 1st May with former resident and actor Jane
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  • ANZAC walk in Brighton Cemetery

    Brighton Cemetery Hawthorn Road, Brighton, VIC, Australia

    On this walk we will visit 8 service persons who have been honoured with a flag. James Ernest Newland who was awarded a Victoria Cross 'For most conspicuous bravery, and devotion to duty, in the face of heavy odds, on three separate occasions’; Gladys Cain a nurse at Caulfield Military Hospital who died during the Spanish Flu Epidemic; and George Hawke Northcote whose wife persevered to be allowed to go to England to care for her husband George who was badly injured.  Today we pay homage.

  • Labassa Women

    Labassa Women
    Labassa 2 Manor Grove, Caulfield North, Victoria, Australia

    Labassa mansion is hosting an eight-day exhibition celebrating the women who lived there across two centuries. This 8-day exhibition opens on Sunday 1st May with former resident and actor Jane
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