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SUMMARY:There is part of my heart in Wonthaggi*
DESCRIPTION:This event is currently cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It may be postponed until later in the year. For those who have booked  a full-refund will be issued. \nThe RHSV is reviving a wonderful old tradition of organising tours to our colleagues in historical societies across rural and regional Victoria. First cab off the rank is Wonthaggi – a town with an unusual history as a State Modern Town. \nSome members will want the flexibility and independence of driving themselves to Wonthaggi\, and others\, wanting to be driven\,  can join our mini-bus for 11 passengers. So those driving themselves to Wonthaggi will meet us at the Wonthaggi Historical Society at 10:30am and will then say goodbye at the end of the tour of the State Mine. \nItinerary \n8:15am       leave RHSV\, 239 A’Beckett St\, Melbourne \n9:10am       pick up passengers at Mt Waverley (pick up point tba) \n10:30am    arrive Wonthaggi Museum\, Wonthaggi Historical Society\, \nRailway Station\, Murray Street. \nWe’ll have a cuppa and talk with the members of the WHS before a tour of \ntheir museum and a walking tour of the town. \n12:45pm      lunch at the Wonthaggi Workers Club\, 75 Graham Street \n2:00pm        arrive at State Coal Mine for a 2:30pm private tour. (Garden St) \n3:30pm        depart for Melbourne \n5pm              drop people at Mt Waverley \n5:45pm         arrive back at RHSV. \nLunch is not included in the ticket prices as it is simpler if everyone makes their choices on the day and pays individually for their lunch. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Wonthaggi and District Historical Society had its beginning in the late 1950’s with the recognition that Wonthaggi’s history should be preserved. A public meeting was held and the historical society was formed. Over the ensuing years the collection of artifacts has grown\, as has its collection of photographs and documents. The society has copies of local newspapers\, dating back to 1910\, and audio tapes of many and varied speakers with their rich tapestry of experiences. \n\n\nLunch will be in the bistro at the Wonthaggi Workmens Club which was founded in 1911 when the Victorian Government attempted to deal with the drinking problem in mining communities. Clubs were\, supposedly\, where men could drink and socialise in a civilised manner. The Wonthaggi Workmen’s Co-operative Club grew out of the Workmen’s Club movement in the UK – similar to Mechanics Institutes – places where the working man could be educated and elevated whilst drinking in a civilised manner! \n\n\nWonthaggi State Coal Mine \nAt the beginning of the twentieth century black coal from NSW powered Victoria’s railway system\, gasworks and manufacturing industries. In 1909 a prolonged strike on the NSW coalfields threatened Victoria’s economic viability\, and the Victorian Government sought to end its dependence by mining its own\, poorer-quality coal deposits in South Gippsland at Wonthaggi which at the time was sparsely settled and possessed no transport links with Melbourne. The first shipment of Wonthaggi coal occurred on 25 November 1909 being dispatched by bullock teams to Inverloch and thence by ship to Melbourne. Three months later transportation by rail commenced after a 27 mile line was constructed from Nyora in the record time of 10 weeks. In 1910 the Government laid out a model township which\, by 1921\, had a population of 5\,000+ making Wonthaggi one of the largest towns in Gippsland. \nThe Wonthaggi State Coal Mine developed into a huge mining complex which operated until 1968. Within the first year of operation a power station was built to supply electricity to the whole area and installation was under way of the necessary engineering works for mining\, ventilation\, water drainage\, haulage\, and coal processing. The mine’s peak period of employment was the year 1925-26 when 1\,821 men were employed. During its operational life\, the Wonthaggi State Coal Mine produced 16.74 million tons\, making the field the largest black coal producer in the State’s history and the fourth largest in Australia. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n* There is Part of my Heart in Wonthaggi was written in 1934 by Jack O’Hagan\, best known for Along the Road to Gundagai. He was commissioned by the Government to tour towns in Victoria & write a theme song for each town. When the soldiers marched home this is the song they sang. 
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/part-of-my-heart-in-wonthaggi/
LOCATION:Royal Historical Society of Victoria\, 239 A'Beckett St\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200512T173000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200512T190000
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SUMMARY:ZOOM History Bookclub: The Maddest Place on Earth
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted that Jill Giese\, the author of he Maddest Place on Earth\, will join our Zoom book club on the 12 May. \nDue to  the COVID-19 pandemic this group will be conducted by ZOOM. Do read the book now (what else do we have to do except read?) so you’ll be ahead of the game when life resumes and we will keep you updated as to when and how the ZOOM meeting can occur. \nOur bookclub usually meets monthly on the 2nd Tuesday of each month from 5:30pm – 7pm at the RHSV. We ponder the big issues and the small over a glass of wine and some cheese but for the forseeable future it will be in your own lounge-room. \n\nGold-fuelled Melbourne was booming\, but dwelling in the fault lines of the proud young colony was an alarming fact – Victoria had the highest rate of insanity in the world. Was it the antipodean sun\, gold mania\, excessive masturbation\, the heady pace of modern life? \nThe true story of colonial Victoria’s quest to cure insanity unfolds through the lives of three English newcomers – a gifted artist\, exiled from his homeland for his madness; an ambitious doctor\, bringing enlightened treatment ideals to his post in charge of the overflowing asylum; and a mysterious undercover journalist\, who sensationally exposed the lunatics’ plight in Melbourne’s press. \nAmid the clamour of fraught endeavours and maddened minds\, the story reveals unexpected hope\, creativity and ennobling humanity – and surprising contemporary relevance as we continue to grapple with this ancient human malady. \nWinner 2018 Victorian Premier’s History Award \nLonglisted 2018 Nib Literary Award \nJill Giese is a clinical psychologist and writer\, whose extensive career in mental health encompasses many years of clinical practice and executive roles in policy and advocacy. \n\nThe following bookclub on Tuesday 9 June will read Mannix by Brenda Niall
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/history-bookclub-the-maddest-place-on-earth/
LOCATION:RHSV\, Gordon Moffatt Room\, 239 A'Beckett St\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:What's On
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DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200512T193000
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SUMMARY:Victoria's Native Vegetation: History\, Heritage\, Politics
DESCRIPTION:Please contact the organiser before attending this event in case it has been cancelled. \nIn recognition of 2020 as the UN International Year of Plant Health\, this History Council of Victoria seminar will illuminate the challenging and contested past\, present and future of Victoria’s native vegetation. \n  \nThis is a free event however bookings should be made through the HCV website. \nProfessional historian Dr Gary Presland\, author of many books about Victoria’s natural and human heritage (including Understanding our natural world: the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria 1880-2015) will speak about the importance of native vegetation in understanding past human activity. \nProfessor Mike Clarke from the Centre for Future Landscapes at La Trobe University will consider the place of fire in the history of Victoria’s vegetation: ‘The Bush will be OK\, it’s evolved to cope with fire…hasn’t it?’. \nDr Lilian Pearce\, a research fellow on the ARC-funded project Owning nature: mapping the contested country of private protected areas and a member of the Landscape Reference Group with the National Trust of Australia (Victoria)\, will consider the changing role of history in contemporary environmental management activities. \nThis seminar contributes to the 2020 Australian Heritage Festival for which the theme is ‘Our Heritage for the Future’. The discussion will be chaired by Professor Alistair Thomson of Monash University.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/victorias-native-vegetation-history-heritage-politics/
LOCATION:Old Treasury Building\, 20 Spring St\, East Melbourne\, VIC\, 3002\, Australia
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200513
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200514
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SUMMARY:LISTEN TO A PODCAST
DESCRIPTION:We have an extraordinary library of lectures given at the RHSV over many years available on our website. Please download and indulge yourself. \nThere are lectures and talks by Gary Presland\, Simon Ambrose\, Robyn Annear\, Rozzi Bazzani\, Richard Broome\, Judith Brett\, Margaret Bowman\, Marilyn Bowler\, Judith Buckrich\, John Burch and many many more \nImage: Gary Presland \nThis is the link: https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/resources/lecture-podcasts/ \n  \n 
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/listen-to-a-podcast/
LOCATION:VIC
CATEGORIES:What's On
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SUMMARY:TAKE A WALK
DESCRIPTION:If you are close to the city why not do a historical walk in the Flagstaff area? \nWe have two self-guided walks on our website as podcasts. The first walk includes The Gill\, QVM\, St James Old Cathedral and Flagstaff Gardens \nThe second walk includes the block around the RHSV: La Trobe\, Elizabeth\, William and Lonsdale Streets. \nWalking Tour Podcasts
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/take-a-walk/
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CATEGORIES:What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200514T171500
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200514T190000
DTSTAMP:20260411T085338
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SUMMARY:Returning our Ancestors
DESCRIPTION:Bookings for this event have been cancelled at the current time due to the ongoing restrictions of COVID-19. We may be rescheduling later in the year. We will keep our members informed as the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds. \nRepatriation of Aboriginal Ancestral Remains is guided by a commitment to return the Ancestors to rest on Country by all involved. \n\nIn this partnership event between the Royal Historical Society of Victoria and the Victorian Aboriginal Heritage Council we will be screening the documentary\, Returning Our Ancestors\, which will be followed by a discussion with Bonnie Chew\, Councillor of the Victorian Aboriginal Heritage Council and our President\, Richard Broome. \n\n\n\n\n\n“As part of the process of colonisation\, Aboriginal peoples’ burial places were desecrated in the name of curiosity\, science and research. Aboriginal Ancestors were stolen from their land where they had been placed with care and ceremony\, to be housed in metal boxes as specimens or ornaments of curiosity by individuals\, families and institutions. \nThe 1980’s saw Aboriginal Ancestors start to return to rest on Country. But the journey is by no means complete and there are many more of our Ancestors still to come home. We can all walk together and help in this essential work.” \nReturning our Ancestors is a documentary\, four years in the making\, which shares some of this difficult but healing journey. Produced by the Victorian Aboriginal Heritage Council\, with the contribution of stories from Victorian Traditional Owners and others. Returning our Ancestors is unlike any film on this topic: current\, relevant\, intimate\, emotional and extraordinary. It is a call to action\, to help Traditional Owners return their Ancestors to Country. The project raises awareness of the sensitivities around connection to Country\, the importance of reporting and returning Ancestors and the reasons Ancestors are not in the custodianship of their Traditional Owners. \nReturning our Ancestors shows us what we can do as a Victorian community to work together for the rightful and respectful return and protection of Aboriginal Ancestors\, now and into the future. \nAs with all RHSV events\, we provide refreshments from 5:15pm till just before 6pm when we move upstairs for the screening and conversation.  \n\nBonnie Chew is a proud Wadawurrung (Wathaurung) woman with many years’ experience in Aboriginal Cultural Heritage and Education. \nBonnie regularly gives lectures promoting cultural heritage management and has sound knowledge of the Aboriginal Heritage Act 2006. In April 2012\, she had the opportunity to be a representative for Ballarat at the World Historical Cities Conference in Vietnam\, where she was able to share her knowledge and network with people of many other nations on a range of heritage issues. \nRecently\, Bonnie held the role of Cultural Heritage Coordinator for a Registered Aboriginal Party (Wathaurung Aboriginal Corporation). In that role\, Bonnie worked closely with the community\, archaeologists\, developers\, anthropologists\, ecologists and government authorities\, on approximately 126 projects to achieve the best outcomes regarding the preservation of cultural heritage on her traditional Country. \nRichard Broome is one of Australia’s leading historians. While he has written on a wide range of subjects\, ‘it is his work on Indigenous history with its emphasis on Aboriginal agency and capacity for negotiation and self-empowerment that has been most influential. His book Aboriginal Australians: A History Since 1788\, first published in 1982\, is now in its 5th fully revised edition and has sold over 60\,000 copies in that time. It is the most widely read work in this field. He has also written Aboriginal Victorians: A History since 1800\, published in 2005 and the most comprehensive account available of Aboriginal history since white settlement in this state. \nHis history of the Victorian Aborigines Advancement League\, Fighting Hard\, was published in 2015 to document the fight against policies of assimilation and the struggle for civil rights. In the clarity and accessibility of his writing\, his great capacity for story-telling and his meticulous research\, Richard has opened up the history of Aboriginal Australians to a much wider public readership than academic historians.’ \n\nOur affiliated historical societies are encouraged to host their own screenings of this important documentary\, Returning our Ancestors\, for their members and friends. It is\, no doubt\, very pertinent to some historical societies which hold Ancestral Remains in their collections.  \nThe Victorian Aboriginal Heritage Council wants as many Victorians to see the documentary as possible so they can be aware of the issues and challenges the documentary raises. The film is relevant to your communities\, to people in your area\, to the Traditional Owners of Country in your region and should be seen\, discussed and shared as widely as possible so action can be taken. The invitation is for you to run an event\, and for Victorian Aboriginal Heritage Council to support it\, but also to keep the call to action ‘alive’ through other events and communications you undertake during 2020 and beyond. The call to action and communication about the message should exist and grow beyond one event or one screening of the documentary.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/returning-our-ancestors/
LOCATION:RHSV ZOOM by Invitation\, Australia
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200526T100000
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SUMMARY:AMaGA Workshop: Victorian Collections
DESCRIPTION:Please contact the organiser before attending this event in case it has been cancelled. \nThis hands-on workshop will guide you through the process of cataloguing on the Victorian Collections system and cover basic principles of collection management\, object handling and digitisation. \nMembers $10\nNon-members $20
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/amaga-workshop-victorian-collections/
LOCATION:Melbourne Museum\, 11 Nicholson St\, Carlton\, VIC\, 3053\, Australia
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200526T170000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200526T180000
DTSTAMP:20260411T085338
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SUMMARY:RHSV AGM\, connecting through ZOOM
DESCRIPTION:Sadly\, our 2020 Weston Bate Oration has been cancelled. However the AGM will be going ahead\, at 5pm on 26 May\, through ZOOM.  There is a link below to enable you to join our AGM through the web (either video or audio) and participate\, vote\, ask questions of the Council etc.\nMost importantly at this AGM will be an opportunity to elect Councillors and receive expressions of interest to be a member of the History Victoria Support Group. As well as electing any members who have been nominated for election as Fellows and to announce recipients of Distinguished Service Award\, Awards of Merit and the Barbara Nixon Volunteer Award. \nFinancial reports will be sent out 2 weeks before the meeting and shortly after we’ll send the full Annual Report. \nIf you require any nomination forms or further information please contact Rosemary Cameron / executive.officer@historyvictoria.org.au / 03 9326 9288 \nTime: May 26\, 2020 17:00 Melbourne \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81846410045?pwd=SVAwNWR0SFFpMGt0bHBqdlJ6WDBlUT09 \nMeeting ID: 818 4641 0045\nPassword: 507624 \n  \nRHSV Annual General Meeting \n110th ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING \nAGENDA \nTuesday 26 May at 5:00pm \nTo be held as an online live meeting with attendance by Zoom                                                                                     \n\nAttendance and apologies\nTo confirm the minutes of the 109th Annual General Meeting and the Special General Meeting held in May 2019.\nTo receive the Annual Report for the year ended 31 December 2019.\nTo receive and consider the Financial Statement for the year ended 31 December 2019\nTo appoint the Auditor for 2020.\nTo elect Office-Bearers (Vice President and Treasurer) and Members of Council.\nTo receive expressions of interest for History Victoria Support Group.\nTo elect any member or members who have been nominated for election as Fellows.\nTo announce recipients of Distinguished Service Award\, Awards of Merit and the Barbara Nixon Volunteer Award.\nTo transact any business of which notice has been given in accordance with the rules the Society.\n\nNotice to members \n\nSix ordinary positions on Council will be open for re-election/election\, three as the two-year terms have been completed and three owing to resignations in 2019.\nTwo office-holder positions will be open for election as the two-year terms are completed: Vice President (currently Elisabeth Jackson) and Treasurer (currently Daniel Clements).\n\nZOOM Instructions                Join Zoom Meeting: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81846410045?pwd=SVAwNWR0SFFpMGt0bHBqdlJ6WDBlUT09 \nMeeting ID: 818 4641 0045                           Password: 507624 \nIf you are new to ZOOM you might want to read the following instructions \nhttps://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362193-How-Do-I-Join-A-Meeting- \nhttps://medium.com/@AshleyGraf101/a-beginners-guide-to-zoom-the-newest-social-network-7b8895052c8f \n  \nDOCUMENTATION TO ACCOMPANY 2020 AGM \nThe minutes of the AGM held in 2019 can be read here. \nAnd the minutes of the SGM held on the same night as our AGM in May 2019 can be read / downloaded here. \nThe full Annual Report for 2019 can be read / downloaded here. \nThe Financial Reports for the RHSV 2020 can be read here. \nThe 2020 Audit Report can be read here. \nThe 2020 AGM’s Agenda can be read / downloaded here. \nAn expression of interest form to join the History Victoria Support Group can be downloaded here. \nIf you wish to nominate for Council you should complete the attached form and return it to the RHSV by 19 May 2020. \nAnd if you’d like someone else to be your proxy at the AGM you should complete this form and return it to the RHSV.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/agm-2020-weston-bate-oration/
LOCATION:RHSV ZOOM by Invitation\, Australia
CATEGORIES:What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200529T180000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200529T213000
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SUMMARY:Trivia-au-go-go
DESCRIPTION:This event has been cancelled for the forseeable future due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Hopefully it will be rescheduled later in the year. \nAndrew Lemon is once again putting us to the test. Join us for some hysterical historical trivia. Time to get competitive and pit yourself against all the other history buffs at the RHSV’s world-famous Trivia-au-go-go. \nPut together a table of friends or come along by yourself and join an RHSV table. \nThere are some great prizes and you will be fundraising for the RHSV at the same time. \nIt is a cash bar but you are more than welcome to bring your own food. \nThis event will be held in our Gallery Downstairs which is wheelchair accessible. \nA table will hold 6 – 8. \nTable members can book individually – you do not have to book a table all at once. During the booking process you’ll be asked which table you want to join so\, at that point\, just give us an individual’s name or organisation (or table name if you have already dreamt one up). \n 
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/trivia-au-go-go-2/
LOCATION:RHSV\, Gallery Downstairs\, 239 A'Beckett Street\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200530
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200531
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SUMMARY:Be a virtual explorer with Eltham District Historical Society
DESCRIPTION:Eltham & District’s latest Touchstone eBulletin has arrived and\, as always\, is full of good ideas and links to “How to” articles. \nWe have received some interesting stories about living with COVID-19 for our collection. Thank\nyou to the members who organised these. You are encouraged to keep a journal about your day\nto day experiences\, which can be the basis for a future written or oral history piece. Yarra Plenty\nRegional Library has some helpful information. Recording these times \n• State Library Victoria has recently launched their Memory Bank Project to archive what everyday\nlife in Victoria is actually like now\, during this time of collective isolation. Memory Bank is a longterm\ncollecting project that invites you to share your everyday observations of pivotal moments\nin time. Extraordinary moments\, and ordinary ones too\, can easily be lost in the day’s blur or\nforgotten in a week’s time. More information and suggestions \n• Nillumbik U3A is providing a weekly online newsletter full of news\, fun\, stories and competitions:\nThey also have a number of online videos about activities you may wish to investigate \n• In our first edition we suggested that now was a good time to go through your family photos.\nThe National Archives of Australia has some good advice on how to look after your family archive \n• Yarra Plenty Regional Library is extending their book valet service to include movies and TV\nshows. A recommended reading list will be sent to you\, curated by librarians. The library is also\nco-ordinating a project with the City of Banyule\, asking crafters to knit squares for a community\nblanket \n• Our Street Library remains open so if you are out walking\, please drop in at the Local History\nCentre\, 728 Main Road\, Eltham. \n• Happy Mother’s Day to our mothers for Sunday May 10th. In 1968 The Australian Women’s\nWeekly asked readers to send in responses to “Which gift pleased you most”. The resulting\narticle includes many ideas (or adaptions of)\, which are relevant today. \nAre you or your family connected to Eltham District? Whilst COVID19 keeps us at home you can be a virtual explorer of Eltham and its history. \n• Eltham District Historical Society’s Victorian Collection pages \nHere you can explore over 10\,000 catalogued items\, the majority of which are images\, there due to\nthe activities of our dedicated Collections Team who continue to work behind the scenes. \n• You can visit our website\nHere you can read various stories and also catch up on past newsletters. \n• You can visit our Facebook pages\nHere you can explore a range of local history stories and information\, including Throwback\nThursday and On This Day features. \n• You can visit the Wikinorthia website\nHere you can see an extensive range of local history stories about the northern suburbs. \n\nDuring this down time perhaps consider writing your memories and stories of living and working\nin Eltham and District for our archives.\nYou could go through your photos and share your memories with family members. Consider\ndonating archives\, including photos relating to Eltham and District to EDHS. We can also arrange\nto digitise these.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/be-a-virtual-explorer-with-eltham-district-historical-society/
LOCATION:VIC
CATEGORIES:Victorian History Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eltham District Historical Society":MAILTO:edhsoffice@gmail.com
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200531
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200601
DTSTAMP:20260411T085338
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SUMMARY:Walking Port Melbourne
DESCRIPTION:There are many ways\, real and virtual\, to reflect on Anzac Day in Port Melbourne. \n\nExplore our Port Melbourne First World War Centenary site. Find out who enlisted from any Port street by typing the name of the street in the search box\, or read the interesting research under the stories tab.\nUse the City of Port Phillip’s On the Home Front self guided walking tour to visit the many sites of significance in Port Melbourne and surrounds from Princes Pier to the Gallipoli Lemnos Memorial.\n\nThrough focusing on just one street\, Heath St\, Christine Griffiths and Barb Mullen have given a deep insight on the impact of the war on one Port Melbourne street.  Their Heath St Anzac Day booklet can be accessed here. \nThe War Memorial around which we usually gather wasn’t Port Melbourne’s first war memorial. That distinction goes to the Women’s Welcome Home Band Rotunda\, gifted by the women welcomers to the City of Port Melbourne on 6 November 1918. Read more about the Rotunda here.  \nFollowing an energetic campaign and fundraising\, the Port Melbourne Council made the Excelsior Hall (cnr Bridge\, Princes and Station Sts) available as a gathering place for returned soldiers and sailors in 1919. The full story is here. \nThe siting and form of a fitting war memorial was the subject of debate over many years. Cr Crichton favoured the site outside the Fountain Inn (now the Cornerstone) whereas Cr Sinclair thought the newly reclaimed Edwards Park would be more suitable. In the end\, the pull of locating the Memorial within sight of the piers from which the troops embarked was agreed. \nIn an ironic twist\, the only Port Melbourne councillor to have a bust erected in his honour\, Cr Walter\, argued that Council funds should be used to support the more pressing needs of the living than a memorial. His view did not prevail. \nThe memorial appears to have been first used for a service in 1928. Read the foundation story of the Port Melbourne War Memorial here.\n 
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/walking-port-melbourne/
LOCATION:Port Melbourne\, Port Melbourne\, VIC\, 3207\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Victorian History Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society":MAILTO:secretary@pmhps.org.au
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200531
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200601
DTSTAMP:20260411T085338
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SUMMARY:St Kilda Historical Society activities
DESCRIPTION:St Kilda Historical Society are not taking COVID19 lying down. They are starting some on-line Zoom sessions on researching your family directed to those living in the St Kilda area where SKHS has the massive benefit of the Vardy Maps. \nThey are also going to continue\, over winter\, their Fireside chats with some of key St Kilda historians. They also have some great podcasts on their website (under Publications) and some great DIY Walk Notes (under News & Events). \n\nTo celebrate its 50th anniversary\, the St Kilda Historical Society is holding a short story competition. You may write on any theme\, in any genre and in any time period\, providing that the story is inspired by or set in St Kilda.  There are two categories – open and junior. So\, start writing and make sure your entry is in by 7 August\, 2020. \n\nKeep an eye out on their website for these events.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/st-kilda-historical-society-activities/
LOCATION:VIC
CATEGORIES:Victorian History Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="St Kilda Historical Society":MAILTO:info@stkildahistory.org.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200604T130000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200604T163000
DTSTAMP:20260411T085338
CREATED:20200219T011005Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200415T075752Z
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SUMMARY:AMaGA Workshop: Caring for Collections: Storage
DESCRIPTION:This workshop will guide participants through space maximising\, cost effective\, logistical and practical tips to help re-organise their collection store. Includes a tour of the store at the RMIT Design Archive. \nMembers $50\nNon-members $80
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/amaga-workshop-caring-for-collections-storage/
LOCATION:RMIT Design Archive\, 154 Victoria St\, Carlton\, VIC\, 3053\, Australia
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ORGANIZER;CN="AMaGA":MAILTO:info@amagavic.org.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200609T173000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200609T190000
DTSTAMP:20260411T085338
CREATED:20200514T093439Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200602T005800Z
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SUMMARY:Zoom Bookclub: Richard Broome's Aboriginal Victorians
DESCRIPTION:Although our book club is very new we have set an extremely high bar in that we’ve had great discussions with the authors every time. And June will be no different. Our choice for June is Richard Broome’s Aboriginal Victorians and we are delighted that Richard has agreed to join us. It is hard to predict what will be happening COVID-wise in 4 weeks but I think we can safely say that the meeting will be conducted by ZOOM. We are allowed to meet in small numbers so members of the book-club are more than welcome to come to the RHSV and share a glass of wine\, and others can join too by Zoom. \nThis book is a fascinating and sometimes horrifying story of Aborigines in Victoria since white settlement\, from one of Australia’s leading historians. Early settlers saw Victoria and its rolling grasslands as Australia felix happy south land a prize left for Englishmen by God. However\, for its original inhabitants this country was home and life\, not to be relinquished without a fierce struggle. \nRichard Broome tells the story of the impact of European ideas\, guns\, killer microbes and a pastoral economy on the networks of kinship\, trade and cultures that various Aboriginal peoples of Victoria had developed over millennia. From first settlement to the present\, he shows how Aboriginal families have coped with ongoing disruption and displacement\, and how individuals and groups have challenged the system. With painful stories of personal loss as well as many successes\, Broome outlines how Aboriginal Victorians survived near decimation to become a vibrant community today. \nThe first history of black-white interaction in Victoria to the present\, Aboriginal Victorians traces the story of Aboriginal people through consultation and interviews with Aboriginal communities and families and rich historical research\, to produce a compelling and even-handed epic. It won the NSW Premier’s History Awards Australian History Prize (2006) and the Victorian Community History Awards Best Print Publication Award (2007)\, and was short-listed for the Human Rights Awards Non-Fiction Award (2005). \n‘Richard Broome is to be congratulated for writing this history in a style that is easy to read\, very informative and brings the past to the present.’ – Jim Berg\, JP\, Gunditjmara man\, founder and director of the Koorie Heritage Trust \n‘This finely crafted and wonderfully compassionate book deepens our understanding of the history of colonialism.’ – Bain Attwood\, Adjunct Professor\, Centre for Cross-Cultural Research\, Australian National University \n  \nThe Zoom log-in details which you’ll need are:                                     \nTopic: Richard Broome Author Event / Bookclub \nTime: Jun 9\, 2020 17:30 Canberra\, Melbourne\, Sydney \nJoin Zoom Meeting \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/89342478771?pwd=cEthS1pPd3lrZFVuZTB1em1qS3h0dz09 \nMeeting ID: 893 4247 8771 \nPassword: 090874                      \n  \n  \nTHE BOOK CHOSEN FOR JULY IS BRENDA NIALL’S Friends and Rivals: Four Great Australian Writers: Barbara Baynton\, Ethel Turner\, Nettie Palmer\, Henry Handel Richardson
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/zoom-bookclub-richard-broomes-aboriginal-victorians/
LOCATION:RHSV\, Gordon Moffatt Room\, 239 A'Beckett St\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:What's On
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ORGANIZER;CN="Royal Historical Society of Victoria":MAILTO:office@historyvictoria.org.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200623T130000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200623T163000
DTSTAMP:20260411T085338
CREATED:20200312T032153Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200415T075656Z
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SUMMARY:Seminar: Managing Volunteers
DESCRIPTION:From attracting younger volunteers to succession planning this seminar will cover how to recruit volunteers\, how to train them\, how to manage\, and how to keep them. Learn from those with successful volunteer programs\, who will share strategies for managing volunteers of all ages and abilities.\nMembers $45 Non-members $60
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/seminar-managing-volunteers/
LOCATION:Museo Italiano\, 199 Faraday Street\, Carlton\, Victoria\, 3053\, Australia
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ORGANIZER;CN="AMaGA":MAILTO:info@amagavic.org.au
GEO:-37.7989604;144.9679779
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200630
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200701
DTSTAMP:20260411T085338
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SUMMARY:A Legal Zoom into St Kilda Cemetery
DESCRIPTION:For those who missed this event you can watch it on-line here: https://vimeo.com/422294272 \n  \nSir Archibald Michie was one of the barristers who defended the Eureka rebels and was Victoria’s first Queen’s Counsel. \nLearn about some famous legal entities\, including Sir Archibald and Alfred Deakin\, former PM\, and James Liddell Purves\, an ardent Australian federalist\, who are buried in St Kilda cemetery and have an opportunity to quiz the barrister presenters about the legal luminaries interred there. \nThis event is part of Law Week and is brought to you by the Victorian Bar and The Friends of St Kilda Cemetery and moderated by Rob Heath QC.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/a-legal-zoom-into-st-kilda-cemetery/
LOCATION:ZOOM\, Join from anywhere in the world
CATEGORIES:Victorian History Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Friends of St Kilda Cemetery":MAILTO:info@foskc.org
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200707T100000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200707T150000
DTSTAMP:20260411T085338
CREATED:20200312T032459Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200415T075619Z
UID:10000622-1594116000-1594134000@www.historyvictoria.org.au
SUMMARY:Workshop: Victorian Collections
DESCRIPTION:This hands-on workshop will guide you through the process of cataloguing on the Victorian Collections system and cover basic principles of collection management\, object handling and digitisation.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/workshop-victorian-collections-3/
LOCATION:Melbourne Museum\, 11 Nicholson St\, Carlton\, VIC\, 3053\, Australia
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ORGANIZER;CN="AMaGA":MAILTO:info@amagavic.org.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200714T170000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200714T173000
DTSTAMP:20260411T085338
CREATED:20200629T041358Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200630T101125Z
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SUMMARY:RHSV AGM: resumption following an adjournment
DESCRIPTION:For those who attended our AGM on Tuesday 26 May you will know that our meeting was adjourned as the audited financial reports were found to have some errors. Those errors have now been corrected and the updated financial reports can be found in our 2019 Annual Report here. Or you can find the Annual Report on our website under Publications > Annual Reports. \nThe resumption of our AGM will be brief and will be held on Tuesday 14 July at 5pm. An invitation to join the meeting by Zoom is included below. All our members and friends are invited to join us to complete this unfinished business. \nRHSV RECONVENED AGM\nTime: Jul 14\, 2020 17:00 Melbourne\, \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/85401723653?pwd=S2xaam0ybktaVDIxVW9VaWJrTDMrUT09 \nMeeting ID: 854 0172 3653\nPassword: 237379 \n  \nRHSV Reconvened Annual General Meeting \n110th ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING RECONVENED \nAGENDA \nTuesday 14 July 2020 at 5:00pm \nTo be held as an online live meeting with attendance by Zoom \nPrior to the AGM held on 26 May 2020 errors were found in the circulated financial reports for 2019 so they were not presented to the members for approval. After all other agenda items (except appointing an auditor for 2020) had been dealt with the AGM was adjourned to a later date when the amended financial reports for 2019 could be presented to the members.  \n\nAttendance and apologies\nTo receive and consider the Financial Statement for the year ended 31 December 2019\nTo appoint the Auditor for 2020.\n\n  \nThere are two Zoom events immediately following the RHSV Resumed AGM in which members and friends will be\, I’m sure\, interested (click on the bold titles): \n\n\nRHSV Bookclub: we are discussing Brenda Niall’s Friends & Rivals. Four Great Australian Writers Barbara Baynton\, Ethel Turner\, Nettie Palmer\, Henry Handel Richardson. 5:30pm\n\n\nThe History Council of Victoria has a panel discussion on Public Monuments – Contested Histories 5pm\n 
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/rhsv-agm-resumption-following-an-adjournment/
LOCATION:RHSV ZOOM by Invitation\, Australia
CATEGORIES:What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200714T170000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200714T183000
DTSTAMP:20260411T085338
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SUMMARY:Public Monuments - Contested Histories
DESCRIPTION:Societies have always used statues and other monuments as ways of both recognising and contesting power and eminence. In Australia\, as everywhere else\, there is public debate over whether and which statues should be removed\, who should make the decision\, and what should be the fate of the statues themselves. Should new monuments be commissioned alongside or to replace them? Recent actions in Australia to remove\, replace or protect statues and other public markers have historical precedents which have much to tell us. Speakers at this webinar will present insights and case studies from Australia\, Europe\, and elsewhere.\n\n\n\nThe topics and their presenters are: \nRevolutions and ‘patrimonial panics’ in France\nPeter McPhee AM is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Melbourne and Chair of the History Council of Victoria. \nContextualising relocated monuments: lessons from three post-Soviet statue parks\nClaire Baxter holds a Master of Conflict Archaeology & Heritage from the University of Glasgow.\n \nFirst Peoples’ perspectives in contextualising contested histories\nJohn Patten is a Bundjalung-Yorta Yorta man on his father’s side\, and a descendant of First Fleet convicts\, Irish rebels and the Saami people of Lapland via his mother. He is Manager\, Diversity and Belonging\, Museums Victoria\, and a Board member of the History Council of Victoria. \nMissing monuments: imagining the future of Australian public memorialisation\nDr Yves Rees is a lecturer in History at La Trobe University\, a regular contributor to ABC Radio Melbourne and a Board member of the History Council of Victoria. \nProfessor Al Thomson\, Monash University\, will facilitate the discussion. \nFor more information or to register and receive a Zoom link a few days before the event\, please click here.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/public-monuments-contested-histories/
LOCATION:ZOOM\, Join from anywhere in the world
CATEGORIES:Victorian History Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="History Council of Victoria":MAILTO:info@historycouncilvic.org.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200714T173000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200714T190000
DTSTAMP:20260411T085338
CREATED:20200514T094059Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200630T105654Z
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SUMMARY:ZOOM BOOKCLUB: Brenda Niall's Friends and Rivals: Four Great Australian Writers: Barbara Baynton\, Ethel Turner\, Nettie Palmer\, Henry Handel Richardson
DESCRIPTION:Join respected biographer\, Brenda Niall\, in talking about four Australian women writing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—a time when stories of bush heroism and mateship abounded\, a time when a writing career might be an elusive thing for a woman. \nOur bookclub is thrilled to have Brenda join our discussion. It is a rare opportunity to learn so much more about the work and research behind the biography and to meet an author who has spent a lifetime researching men and women who have shaped Melbourne and our wider world. \nFriends and Rivals is a vivid and engaging account of the intersecting and entwined lives of Ethel Turner\, author of the much loved Seven Little Australians\, Barbara Baynton\, who wrote of the harshness of bush life\, Nettie Palmer\, essayist and critic\, and Henry Handel Richardson\, of The Getting of Wisdom and The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney fame. \nBrenda Niall illuminates a fascinating time in Australia’s literary history and brings to life the remarkable women who made it so. \n\nOur bookclub has flourished through times of COVID and we’ve been thrilled to welcome the authors of the books chosen to join our discussions. We will be able to have a few people join us in real life\, not just by Zoom\, so if you hanker after a bit of company\, a glass of wine and some cheese do join me at the RHSV and the others can Zoom in. \nIf you’d like to buy a copy of Friends and Rivals it is available in our bookshop: https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/product/friends-rivals-by-brenda-niall/ \n  \nThe Zoom details you need: \nBook Club: Brenda Niall\nTime: Jul 14\, 2020 17:30 Melbourne \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82515572588?pwd=ZlVMMTVFUUo5bGVZcXEwbW5xbW1rZz09 \nMeeting ID: 825 1557 2588\nPassword: 540501
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/zoom-bookclub-brenda-nialls-friends-and-rivals-four-great-australian-writers-barbara-baynton-ethel-turner-nettie-palmer-henry-handel-richardson/
LOCATION:RHSV\, Gordon Moffatt Room\, 239 A'Beckett St\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:What's On
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ORGANIZER;CN="Royal Historical Society of Victoria":MAILTO:office@historyvictoria.org.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200804T180000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200804T203000
DTSTAMP:20260411T085338
CREATED:20200312T032803Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200415T075550Z
UID:10000623-1596564000-1596573000@www.historyvictoria.org.au
SUMMARY:Victorian Museums and Galleries Awards
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the amazing achievements of the Victorian museum and gallery sector with friends and colleagues. Generously supported by the State Library of Victoria and hosted in their Conversation Quarter\, which recently opened as part of the Library’s Vision2020 redevelopment project. Includes drinks and canapes.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/victorian-museums-and-galleries-awards/
LOCATION:State Library of Victoria\, Entry 3\, Village Roadshow Theatre\, La Trobe Street\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
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ORGANIZER;CN="AMaGA":MAILTO:info@amagavic.org.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200810T173000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200810T190000
DTSTAMP:20260411T085338
CREATED:20200719T054909Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200719T061148Z
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SUMMARY:Book Club with Robyn Annear. Nothing New.
DESCRIPTION:“I have a double-barrelled gun\, silver mounted and in excellent order. I want\, in exchange\, a double perambulator.” Exchange and Mart\, 1869. \nUpholders\, Shoddy mills\, Petticoat Lane\, fripperers – Nothing New opens up a wonderful world that\, despite our love-affair with op-shops\, is all but hidden from us in today’s world of consumerism and obsolescence.\n \nJoin the splendid Robyn Annear when she talks about Nothing New\, her latest book\, which chronicles the history of second-hand trade across the world and down the ages (Jesus’ clothes would have been divided up among the soldiers guarding the crosses as their perquisite\, or ‘perk’ as we’d say today). \nWe are asking those that join bookclub to bring their own favourite story of an op-shop find or hand-me-down (I can remember the joy of growing taller than my elder sister so I would never have a hand-me-down again). \nRobyn Annear is author of five books of history\, including Bearbrass: Imagining Early Melbourne\, winner of a Victorian Premier’s Literary Award in 1995 and still in print today. Her other books are: Nothing But Gold: The diggers of 1852\, The Man Who Lost Himself\, Fly a Rebel Flag\, and A City Lost & Found: Whelan the Wrecker’s Melbourne. \nAs a curator\, Robyn has explored aspects of Melbourne and Victoria’s history in exhibitions at the State Library of Victoria and the City Gallery (‘Up’\, ‘Royal Melbourne’\, & ‘Special’)\, besides writing exhibition text for the blockbuster A Day in Pompeii show at Melbourne Museum in 2009\, and for the Museum’s permanent exhibition\, The Melbourne Story. \nRobyn has appeared on TV\, talking about goldfields history\, in Victoria Wood’s BBC documentary series\, Victoria’s Empire (Episode 3)\, and on Tony Robinson Explores Australia (Episode 4: Eureka). In 2014\, storyteller Jan Wositzky interviewed Robyn about pre-Eureka strife on the goldfields in his video series on the 1851 Monster Meeting at Forest Creek. Her most recent TV appearance was in The Crown and Us\, a two-part series which aired on ABC-TV in March 2019. \nRobyn won the Civic Choice award in the 2015 Melbourne Prize for Literature with her essay\, ‘Places Without Poetry’. She is a past member of the Library Board of Victoria and was one of the State Library’s inaugural Creative Fellows. \nIn 2018\, Robyn launched her monthly podcast\, Nothing on TV\, in which she ransacks Trove Newspapers\, the National Library of Australia’s digital repository of historical newsprint\, to present stories from a time when there was\, literally\, nothing on TV. If you have never listened to Robyn’s podcast – don’t waste another minute and start listening now. They are a delight. \n  \nZOOM details for joining this bookclub \nTopic: Bookclub: Robyn Annear\nTime: MONDAY AUG 10\, 2020 5:30PM \, Melbourne\, \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84101029542?pwd=aW1YbWV6VVlMRWJETExBdkQraCtYdz09 \nMeeting ID: 841 0102 9542\nPassword: 917922
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/book-club-with-robyn-annear-nothing-new/
LOCATION:ZOOM\, Join from anywhere in the world
CATEGORIES:What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200813T110000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200813T120000
DTSTAMP:20260411T085338
CREATED:20200717T073620Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200717T073620Z
UID:10000635-1597316400-1597320000@www.historyvictoria.org.au
SUMMARY:ZOOM CATALOGUING CLINIC
DESCRIPTION:Calling all historical societies across Victoria. \nOur inaugural clinic was very well attended with people zooming in from across Victoria and Darwin. \nThe clinics will be held monthly and they are a relaxed forum in which to raise your queries about any aspect of cataloguing. They are managed and led by Jillian Hiscock\, our RHSV Collections Manager. We will be having guest speakers at future clinics and if you have an issue which you’d like discussed you can always email the details to Jillian beforehand. Or just connect up on the day and pose your question then and give Jillian a surprise! \nJillian Hiscock\, our RHSV Collections Manager and a very experienced librarian\, will be available through Zoom to answer any queries you might have about cataloguing – or\, indeed any other aspect of your collection. \nThis is a monthly clinic so you can use it as a forum whenever you want. You might want to just listen in for the hour and learn from other’s questions – or maybe you have the answers too. It will be a place for historical societies to get together and talk cataloguing and collections. \n  \nInvitation to join Zoom Cataloguing Clinic \nTopic: Cataloguing Clinic\nTime: Aug 13\, 2020 11:00AM Canberra\, Melbourne\, Sydney \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84099540791?pwd=Q0JkalZkdHZoK3pEanVvY0NpelBlZz09 \nMeeting ID: 840 9954 0791\nPassword: 239955
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/zoom-cataloguing-clinic/
LOCATION:ZOOM\, Join from anywhere in the world
CATEGORIES:What's On
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ORGANIZER;CN="Royal Historical Society of Victoria":MAILTO:office@historyvictoria.org.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200818T143000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200818T160000
DTSTAMP:20260411T085338
CREATED:20200312T043058Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200415T075509Z
UID:10000089-1597761000-1597766400@www.historyvictoria.org.au
SUMMARY:Webinar: Sources of Income
DESCRIPTION:Beyond grants: this webinar will share tips for securing funding; relationship building\, fundraising\, corporate partnerships and securing in kind services and donations.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/webinar-sources-of-income/
LOCATION:webinar
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ORGANIZER;CN="AMaGA":MAILTO:info@amagavic.org.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200908T100000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200908T160000
DTSTAMP:20260411T085338
CREATED:20200312T034003Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200415T075443Z
UID:10000624-1599559200-1599580800@www.historyvictoria.org.au
SUMMARY:Sector Event: Victorian Collections Day
DESCRIPTION:A full day of information and workshops aimed at the community collecting sector to help you achieve the best care for your collection. \nHear from museum and gallery industry experts on topics including collection management\, conservation and exhibition skills. Talks will cover ways to approach these topics with small budgets in mostly volunteer organisations\, ideal for the small-medium groups who use VC to catalogue their collections.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/sector-event-victorian-collections-day/
LOCATION:TBA
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ORGANIZER;CN="AMaGA":MAILTO:info@amagavic.org.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200910T110000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200910T120000
DTSTAMP:20260411T085338
CREATED:20200617T032901Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200909T234218Z
UID:10000631-1599735600-1599739200@www.historyvictoria.org.au
SUMMARY:CATALOGUING CLINIC
DESCRIPTION:Calling all historical societies across Victoria. \nWe are launching a new initiative – a Cataloguing Clinic conducted through Zoom.  Jillian Hiscock\, our RHSV Collections Manager and a very experienced librarian\, will be available through Zoom to answer any queries you might have about cataloguing – or\, indeed any other aspect of your collection. \nIf you want\, you can email Jillian beforehand with your questions as sometimes it is easier to put something in writing.  Or just connect up on the day and pose your question then and give Jillian a surprise! (collections@historyvictoria.org.au) \nJillian will open with some basic cataloguing tips and we’ll take it from there. \nWe plan to make this a monthly clinic so you can use it as a forum whenever you want. You might want to just listen in for the hour and learn from other’s questions – or maybe you have the answers too. It will be a place for historical societies to get together and talk cataloguing and collections. \nInvitation to join Zoom Cataloguing Clinic \nThe Zoom details you need are: Topic: Cataloguing Clinic \nTime: Sep 10\, 2020 11:00 Melbourne\,  \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83526142927?pwd=eTU3LzdweFZzb2pkSmNrQXE3OTNCUT09 \nMeeting ID: 835 2614 2927\nPassword: 806138
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/cataloguing-clinic/
LOCATION:ZOOM\, Join from anywhere in the world
CATEGORIES:What's On
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ORGANIZER;CN="Royal Historical Society of Victoria":MAILTO:office@historyvictoria.org.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200922T164500
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200922T183000
DTSTAMP:20260411T085338
CREATED:20200910T022151Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200910T022351Z
UID:10000637-1600793100-1600799400@www.historyvictoria.org.au
SUMMARY:The Shelf Life of Zora Cross a presentation by Cathy Perkins
DESCRIPTION:The Shelf Life of Zora Cross – a presentation by Cathy Perkins\nTuesday\, 22 September 2020 4.45 pm for 5 pm\nvia Zoom (link will be sent on booking) \nPlease book numbers are limited \nEvent ran by the Camberwell Historical Society\nGeorge Fernand- enquiries@chs.org.au \nAustralian poet and journalist Zora Cross caused a sensation in 1917 with her book Songs of Love and Life. Here was a demure-looking young woman\, celebrating sexual passion in a provocative series of sonnets. She was hailed as a genius\, and many expected her to endure as a household name. While Cross’s fame didn’t last\, she kept writing through financial hardship\, personal tragedies and two world wars\, producing an impressive body of work. Her verse\, prose and correspondence with the likes of Ethel Turner\, George Robertson (of Angus & Robertson) and Mary Gilmore place Zora Cross among the key personalities of Australia’s literary world in the early twentieth century. \nCathy Perkins’ biography The Shelf Life of Zora Cross\, published in November 2019\, has received outstanding reviews and was recently shortlisted for a NSW Premier’s History Award. Cathy will talk about her discovery of Zora Cross in the archives of the State Library of NSW\, where she works as an editor\, and the many pleasures and challenges in writing her life story.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/the-shelf-life-of-zora-cross-a-presentation-by-cathy-perkins/
LOCATION:ZOOM\, Join from anywhere in the world
ORGANIZER;CN="Camberwell Historical Society":MAILTO:enquiries@chs.org.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200922T183000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200922T200000
DTSTAMP:20260411T085338
CREATED:20200629T042729Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200629T042954Z
UID:10000633-1600799400-1600804800@www.historyvictoria.org.au
SUMMARY:Ross McMullin – ‘Turning Disaster into Victory: The Battle of Polygon Wood’
DESCRIPTION:The battle of Polygon Wood in September 1917 is one of the AIF’s most iconic but least understood victories. \nIt has usually been depicted as a relatively straightforward affair — the Australians advanced behind an irresistible barrage that resembled a Gippsland bushfire\, and there were inevitable casualties but no major hiccups. This interpretation is fundamentally flawed. \nThere was indeed a major hiccup that complicated the operation. The Germans\, sensing what was coming\, launched a ferocious pre-emptive attack against the AIF’s right. The 58th Battalion\, then holding the front line\, held firm despite severe casualties\, while the British unit alongside was driven back. AIF units earmarked for the following day’s operation were sent forward to retrieve the situation\, and further heavy losses resulted. \nWith enemy forces occupying the adjacent British sector\, General Pompey Elliott recommended that the operation be postponed. His superiors insisted that the attack had to proceed. Elliott had to overhaul the arrangements in great haste. He remained sceptical about assurances he was given that the plight on the right would be fixed before zero hour. It wasn’t. Even so\, men under his command attained the Australian objectives in their sector and ensured that the British objectives on their right were attained as well. \nWhen the real story is understood\, the extent of the AIF achievement at Polygon Wood can be properly appreciated. Dr Ross McMullin\, the award-winning biographer of Pompey Elliott\, will tell the story of the battle in a vivid and illuminating illustrated presentation. \nDate: 22 September 2020\nTime: Doors open 6:30 PM. Speaker 7:00 PM-8:00 PM. Refreshments to 8.30 PM.\nWhere: The Royal Historical Society\, 239 A’Beckett Street\, Melbourne.\nMHHV Members $10\, General Public $15. \nStrict Social Distancing regulations will apply.\nIt is necessary that all audience members pre-book their ticket so that we can organise the venue appropriately for your safety.\nBook your ticket here\n  \nDr Ross McMullin is an acclaimed biographer and historian\, and a lively and entertaining speaker. His biography Pompey Elliott won awards for biography and literature. Farewell\, Dear People: Biographies of Australia’s Lost Generation was awarded the Prime Minister’s Prize for Australian History and the National Cultural Award. His latest book is Pompey Elliott at War: In His Own Words. His biography of Australia’s first official war artist\, Will Dyson: Australia’s Radical Genius\, was highly commended by the judges of the National Biography Award. Other previous books include the ALP centenary history The Light on the Hill: The Australian Labor Party 1891-1991\, and another political history So Monstrous a Travesty: Chris Watson and The World’s First National Labour Government.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/ross-mcmullin-turning-disaster-into-victory-the-battle-of-polygon-wood/
LOCATION:RHSV Officers’ Mess Upstairs\, 239 A'Beckett Street\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Victorian History Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Military History & Heritage Victoria":MAILTO:info@mhhv.org.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20201006T183000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20201006T193000
DTSTAMP:20260411T085338
CREATED:20200928T111516Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200928T111516Z
UID:10000639-1602009000-1602012600@www.historyvictoria.org.au
SUMMARY:The West Gate Bridge Collapse: 50 Years On
DESCRIPTION:50 years ago\, the partially-constructed West Gate Bridge collapsed\, killing 35 workers and injuring 18 more. The disaster remains Australia’s worst industrial accident to this day. \nJoin us in conversation with Tommy Watson and Danny Gardiner of the West Gate Bridge Memorial Committee to learn about that fateful day\, their work on the bridge\, and their ongoing battle for workplace safety. \nThis will be an online event. A link will be emailed to registrants the day before the event along with instructions on how to participate. \nIf you need any help you can contact us by phone 1300 462 542 between 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday\, via email at library@hobsonsbay.vic.gov.au\, or via Instagram DM or Facebook Message. \nImage source: John T Collins courtesy of State Library Victoria
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/the-west-gate-bridge-collapse-50-years-on/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Victorian History Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Hobsons Bay Libraries":MAILTO:heritage@hobsonsbay.vic.gov.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20201009T173000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20201009T190000
DTSTAMP:20260411T085338
CREATED:20200928T111436Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200929T040041Z
UID:10000638-1602264600-1602270000@www.historyvictoria.org.au
SUMMARY:Mallee Country: Land People History. A discussion
DESCRIPTION:This is a free online Zoom event presented by Western Victorian Association of Historical Societies for History Month. \nThe speakers are: Richard Broome\, Katie Holmes and Charles Fahey \n‘We often hear the phrase\, “the Mallee breeds em tough.” This book not only supports that but also gives a silent tip of the hat to the men and women over thousands of years who have called the Mallee home. It is a must read for every Australian.’ Kara Taylor\, Agora \nOur three speakers will discuss their co-authored book\, Mallee Country\, which tells the powerful history of mallee lands and people across southern Australia from Deep Time to the present. Carefully shaped and managed by Aboriginal people for over 50\,000 years\, mallee country was dramatically transformed by settlers\, first with sheep and rabbits\, then by flattening and burning the mallee to make way for wheat. Government backed settlement schemes devastated lives and country\, but some farmers learnt how to survive the droughts\, dust storms\, mice\, locusts and salinity – as well as the vagaries of international markets – and became some of Australia’s most resilient agriculturalists. In mallee country\, innovation and tenacity have been neighbours to hardship and failure.\nMallee Country is a story of how land and people shape each other. It is the story of how a landscape once derided by settlers as a ‘howling wilderness’ covered in ‘dismal scrub’ became home to citizens who delighted in mallee fauna and flora and fought to conserve it for future generations. And it is the story of the dreams\, sweat and sorrows of people who face an uncertain future of depopulation and climate change with creativity and hope. \nClick here to buy a copy of the book
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/mallee-country-land-people-history-a-discussion/
LOCATION:ZOOM\, Join from anywhere in the world
CATEGORIES:Victorian History Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Western Victorian Assoc of Historical Societies":MAILTO:haven273@outlook.com
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