Events from May 14, 2018 – October 7, 2018 – Page 2 – Royal Historical Society of Victoria

  • Luminosity Labassa open day

    Labassa 2 Manor Grove, Caulfield North, Victoria, Australia

    Experience the brilliance of Labassa’s original extravagant stained and etched glass. Hear the story behind the creation of the magnificent 1873 Ferguson and Urie stained tripartite glass window and recent
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  • 1000 babies can’t be wrong!

    Victorian Archives Centre 99 Shiel Street, North Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    In January 1961, 50 mothers marched through the Victorian town of Healesville demanding their doctor be reinstated to the local hospital. Their placards declared '1000 Babies Can't Be Wrong'. These
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  • Altona Homestead Devonshire Tea

    Altona Homestead Devonshire Tea

    Altona Homestead 128 Queen Street, Altona, Victoria, Australia

    The Altona-Laverton Historical Society members and volunteers invite you to drop into the Altona Homestead on the first Sunday of the Month (February to December) to enjoy a serve of our famous Devonshire Tea or Cream Tea or Cornish Tea, anyway you look at them they are delicious.

  • Book launch at Elwood: Enchanted Beneath the Bluff

    Elwood Bowls Club 170 Glenhuntly Road, Brighton, VIC, Australia

    Authors Heather Arnold and Isaac Hermann invite you to the launch of their book, Enchanted Beneath the Bluff, Agnes & Geraldine’s Pursuit of Elwood’s Elusive Black Diamonds. Within a place
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  • MARKETING FORUMS

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    Christina Browning, the RHSV Marketing Officer, leads these forums which each month tackle a different aspect of marketing for historical societies - they tend to concentrate on social media as
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  • The Wilson History Oration INUNDATED: FLOODS, HISTORY AND HIGH WATER An oration by Dr Margaret Cook

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    Join the Professional Historians Association to hear eminent environmental historian Dr Margaret Cook at the second annual Wilson History Oration, environmental historian, Dr Margaret Cook will explore the ways history can engage with the public, the media, other professions and policy makers. In discussing her work on floods, she will highlight how her
    role and training as a public historian shapes her scholarship and historical practice. Join us as we consider these themes during one of our greatest crises in history: the climate emergency.