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FRIENDS OF LA TROBE’S COTTAGE ANNUAL LECTURE
RHSV, Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaC J La Trobe: Jolimont plantsman Guest Speaker: Helen Botham Garden history researcher, author of La Trobe’s Jolimont: a walk round my garden, and coordinator La Trobe’s Cottage management team
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From sanatoria to urban bushland: An environmental history of Melbourne’s former sites of tuberculosis treatment.
Join via ZoomA talk by Environmental Historian, Rebecca Le Get. Rebecca Le Get is an independent scholar and environmental historian. She is interested in how tuberculosis and its treatment has influenced the
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Cataloguing Clinic via Zoom with Jillian Hiscock
ZOOM Join from anywhere in the worldAt the 27 May Clinic, Jillian will revisit the process of book cataloguing, both published and unpublished material. What is the information that should be captured and what is the
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Impressionists in their Gardens – living light and colour
ZOOM Join from anywhere in the worldThis lecture explores gardens through the senses of the Impressionists from three continents – Europe, North America and Australia - enjoying the essentially similar pleasures of the garden but engaging
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Ern Latchford: his WWI adventures in western Europe, Persia and Russia.
ZOOM Join from anywhere in the worldA Zoom event. In late 1918, thousands of Australian soldiers, exhausted and scarred by war in Europe, began to head home. However, one ANZAC headed the wrong way, toward more conflict and risk in vast and frozen Siberia, thousands of miles from his fiancée waiting on the family farm in Western Victoria. This is the story of Ernest Latchford MBE MC, told through his articulate, observant letters home from three very distinct theatres of war, western Europe, Persia and Russia.
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Up the (Gardiners) Creek: a brief history of Kooyong Koot
Bert Lewis Room, first floor, Box Hill Library 1040 Whitehorse Road, Box Hill, Select one, AustraliaDr Gary Presland, FRHSV, and President of the Society, has done a particular study of the natural history of the Melbourne area. He will speak about one of the prime
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Ferries of Melbourne: Past, Present, Future – Good, Better, Best?
Library at the Dock 107 Victoria Harbour Promenade, Docklands, Victoria, AustraliaMelbourne’s ferries have delivered significant social and economic benefit to our community in the past. Today ferries remain a woefully under-developed transport and tourism option. The opportunity to expand ferry services around this state and in this city is great.
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LA TROBE’S UNIFORM
RHSV, Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaLA TROBE’S UNIFORM ‘Extravagance, Tradition and Power’ : Charles La Trobe’s Uniform Guest Speaker: Megan Anderson (2019 La Trobe Society Fellow at State Library Victoria) Megan Anderson is Costume Production
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Cataloguing Clinic via Zoom with Jillian Hiscock
ZOOM Join from anywhere in the worldJune's cataloguing topic will be dealing with donations to a collection - donation forms, the process, what to do, what not to do etc Jillian Hiscock, the RHSV Collections Manager,
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Twentieth Century Science, Technology and Engineering
RHSV, Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaTwentieth Century Science, Technology and Engineering Presented by Laureate Professor R. J. EVANS Engineering Heritage Victoria and the RHSV are, once again, partnering to present some fascinating events which are
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