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‘Victoria’s Earliest Porcelain Works’ with speaker Gregory Hill
Phyllis Hore Room, Kew Library Civic Drive, Kew, Victoria, AustraliaJoin us on March 6th for our upcoming talk by Gregory Hill on 'Victoria's Earliest Porcelain Works', discussing the formative years of Victoria's porcelain industry in the 19th and 20th centuries. The talk will be followed with a light supper. LOCATION: Phyllis Hore Room, Kew Library, Thursday March 6th, 7:30pm All welcome. Please register your
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March madness book sale
Family History Connections Resource Centre Cnr Railway Rd & Queen St, Blackburn, VictoriaFamily History Connections is holding a mega book sale full of Australiana, Victorian local histories, reference books, family history research and many family histories. Also assorted stationery.
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McIntyre Lecture delivered by Emeritus Professor Richard Broome AM on ‘The Power of Place – Melbourne’s Lanes’
Just Theatre, Kew Court House 188 High Street, Kew, VIC, AustraliaJoin Kew Historical Society to hear Professor Richard Broome AM, FAHA, FRHSV discuss The Power of Place. The Story of Melbourne Lanes, the making of Melbourne's lanes and books about the lanes. Melbourne’s laneways have always been dynamic and great survivors, adding to the importance of the strong belief, in this age of waste, demolition
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THE WWI BATTLEFIELDS OF VERDUN
Ellis Cottage 10 Nillumbik Square, Diamond Creek, VIC, AustraliaNillumbik Historical Society invites you to a presentation and talk, The WWI Battlefields of Verdun, by Terry Phillips at 2pm Sunday 16 March
Terry has visited the battlefields of France and Belgium for many years. He is a military history expert who regularly gives talks and presentations to community groups and schools. The presentation will be followed by a light afternoon tea -
Feminists to felons: exhibiting women’s history
RHSV Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett St, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaEach year, to celebrate Women's History Month, the RHSV offers our Women's History lecture, part of our Distinguished Lecture series. Museums in the 1970s were largely masculine preserves, staffed almost exclusively by men in white coats. Women were thin on the ground. Their stories were equally rare. Those few women who did appear in museum
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The World of Mab Grimwade
Prahran Mechanics Institute 39 St Edmonds Road, Prahran, VIC, AustraliaBorn into a genteel family of pastoralists and investors in colonial Victoria, Mabel Louise Kelly (1887–1973), or ‘Mab’ to those who knew her, would grow up to make an enormous contribution to Victoria and Australia. Most evidently, it was made through bequests to the University of Melbourne and through the donation to the university of
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The Power of Place: The Story of Melbourne’s Lanes’ – Richard Broome Talk at Malvern Historical Society
Malvern Town Hall Corner High Street and Glenferrie Road Malvern, Melbourne, AustraliaJoin members of the Malvern Historical Society Committee for a lecture by author Professor Richard Broome at the Malvern Town Hall on Wednesday 19 March 2025 at 7:30pm. Professor Richard Broome, AM FAHA FRHSV, will present a lecture on 'The Power of Place. The Story of Melbourne Lanes'. He will discuss the making of Melbourne's
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Louise Lovely’s Labassa
Labassa 2 Manor Grove, Caulfield North, Victoria, AustraliaSession 1: 6pm - 7.30pm Session 2: 8pm - 9.30pm Film pioneer Louise Lovely was Australia’s most successful actress in Hollywood’s early silent era and Labassa’s most celebrated resident of the 1930s. Delve into Miss Lovely’s extraordinary life story as a star of stage and screen and learn what her splash of glamour brought to
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The Yallourn Briquette Works, 1925-1971: The Making & Marketing of Bernie’s Heat Nuggets with Matthew Churchward
RHSV Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett St, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaJoin Engineering Heritage Victoria and the RHSV at an illustrated talk to mark the centenary of the Yallourn Briquette Works. Achieving its first commercial production in February 1925, the Yallourn Briquette Works was the third key element of the ambitious state-owned enterprise to harness the immense brown coal resources of the Latrobe Valley. Championed by
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CATALOGUING CLINICS 2025
ZOOM Join from anywhere in the worldJoin 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 each month and is happy to be guided by those who attend as to what they would like covered in upcoming clinics. Bring your questions (no matter the topic) - this is an interactive space where questions are encouraged. The RHSV does not endorse any particular cataloguing software - we believe it is horses for courses - and Jillian will talk about issues that impact on cataloguing whether you are using cataloguing cards or software.
Free
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