Events from May 14, 2018 – October 7, 2018 – Page 3 – Royal Historical Society of Victoria

  • Collingwood History Walk

    This year's walk will examine the area bounded by Victoria Parade, Smith Street, Wellington Street and Peel Street. The area was subdivided early in the history of Melbourne's colonisation and
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    $10
  • 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.

  • 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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    Free
  • ROSS MCMULLIN ON “LIFE SO FULL OF PROMISE”

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

    An event with Ross is always much anticipated.  Ross McMullin is an award-winning historian and biographer, a renowned storyteller, an entertaining speaker, and a longstanding RHSV member. His multi-biography Farewell, Dear People was awarded the Prime Minister’s Prize for Australian History, and in his new sequel Life So Full of Promise, Ross has again combined prodigious research and narrative flair in a collection of interwoven family stories about forgotten Australians who had radiant potential.

    $10.00 – $20.00
  • Emigration, Dress and Australian Colonial Society, 1820s – 1860s

    Heritage Hill Museum and Historic Gardens 66 McCrae St, Dandenong, Select a State or Province:, Australia

    Join us for this talk as we consider the nature of colonial society and the immigrants experience through the lens of dress. What clothes did people bring with them to
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    Free, bookings required
  • CATALOGUING CLINICS 2023

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    Join Jillian Hiscock, the RHSV Collections Manager, each month is 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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    Free