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SUMMARY:THE GOOD GIRL SONG PROJECT: The Patrons' Parlour
DESCRIPTION:Please note that this is not a Zoom event but will be held live\, in the Drill Hall in our downstairs gallery which is fully accessible. All COVID19 restrictions and cautions will be observed.  \nThe RHSV is thrilled to host an event by our friends\, the Good Girl Song Project. For those of you fortunate to attend Liz Rushen’s book launch for her book\, John Marshall: Shipowner\, Lloyd’s refromer and emigration agent\, earlier this year in the Drill Hall\, you will have heard a glorious performance from Penny Larkin\, a member of The Good Girl Project. \nThis soirée is the first in a series\, The Patrons’ Parlour\, which is designed to build support for their production\, Voyage.  It will be an evening of fine entertainment and light refreshments. \nYou can RSVP through the button below or by emailing thegoodgirlsongproject@gmail.com \n\n\n\n\n\nVOYAGE’ IS A UNIVERSAL JOURNEY STORY COMBINING AUSTRALIAN HISTORY AND NEW AUSTRALIAN SONGWRITING THAT SPEAKS TO THE UNKNOWN HISTORY OF AUSTRALIAN WOMEN.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe show places itself in Australia’s complex colonial past. In the midst of convict boats arriving each week from Britain\, a different cargo leaves for Australia. On board are 287 single and free women. They have been promised good wages\, good work and good marriage prospects in the new colony but to claim their new life they must first survive the voyage and then the colony.\nThis semi-staged ‘folksical’ sits somewhere between ballad opera and song cycle. The crystal clear song-writing incorporates both original and well-loved traditional folk tunes and showcases a fresh female perspective of an early Australian immigration story. The work is written by Helen Begley and based on the academic research of Dr Elizabeth Rushen.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/the-good-girl-song-project-the-patrons-parlour/
LOCATION:RHSV\, Gallery Downstairs\, 239 A'Beckett Street\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:What's On
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SUMMARY:A G M Michell\, Australia's greatest engineer?
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with Engineering Heritage Victoria the RHSV is delighted to offer this Zoom event with Stephen Phillip (based in London). \nAnthony George Maldon (AGM) Michell was undoubtedly one of the greatest Australian engineers. A prolific inventor\, he is best known for his tilting pad thrust bearing. It remains one of the greatest inventions in lubrication science\, and revolutionised ship propulsion – without it\, modern shipping would not be possible. \nThis talk reveals the story of Michell’s fascinating life and astonishing achievements\, and the motivations of the man behind the inventions. It weaves engineering and technology into the history of the early twentieth century. Michell made significant contributions to Australia’s proud engineering heritage\, and is truly one of our unsung heroes. \nStephen Phillip is a mechanical engineer and has an extensive career in product development. Originally from Melbourne\, he is currently living in the UK. His fascination with Michell began while he was a student at Melbourne University. He was surprised to discover that a comprehensive biography of Michell did not exist\, so decided to write one himself. \nThis event will be chaired by Matthew Churchward who is a mechanical engineer and a Senior Curator\, Engineering & Transport\, at Museum Victoria\, where he has been part of the curatorial staff since 1994. Amongst his research interests are the history of Australian engineering\, manufacturing\, mining and transport infrastructure. One of his key curatorial achievements over the past 20 years\, has been the development of an extensive collection of over 65\,000 items of trade literature documenting technological products manufactured and marketed by thousands of Australian companies from the late 19th century. He was been involved for the past 30 years in researching Victoria’s mining history\, concentrating particularly on the impacts of technology and interpretation of historic mining landscapes. \nZoom details are sent 24 hours before the event to all those who have registered.  \nImage of Michell Thrust bearing courtesy of Museums Victoria.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/a-g-m-michell-australias-greatest-engineer/
LOCATION:ZOOM\, Join from anywhere in the world
CATEGORIES:What's On
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SUMMARY:Trove for Beginners
DESCRIPTION:Trove is a National Library of Australia website which provides access to historic newspapers\, photographs\, and much more. Come along to this session to learn what’s available on Trove\, and some tips and tricks to find what you’re looking for. \nRecommended for beginners.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/trove-for-beginners/
LOCATION:Williamstown Library\, 104 Ferguson St\, Williamstown\, VIC\, 3016\, Australia
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:20210216T173000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20210216T190000
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SUMMARY:In the Name of the Theatre now by ZOOM
DESCRIPTION:This event will now be a Zoom event as we will be in lockdown again. As a Zoom event it will be free-of-charge and those who have already bought tickets will be refunded. My profound apologies to those who were looking forward to coming back to the Drill Hall for an event – I do hope we can meet in person again soon but its not to be this time. We will email the Zoom link to those attending 24 hours prior to the event. \nWe are delighted that Dr Cheryl Threadgold will be presenting a lecture based on her award-winning history\, In the Name of Theatre. The History\, Culture and Voices of Amateur Theatre in Victoria\, to kick off our lecture series in 2021. The lecture will start at 6pm and we will be serving drinks prior to that from 5:30pm. \nHannie Rayson wrote\, “Her sumptuous book\, In the Name of Theatre\, is a kind of encyclopaedia of the Victorian stage. From the early colonial settlement when entertainment included the viewing of executions or dissections of bodies of the executed\, amateur theatre has come a long way. \nIn the Name of Theatre documents amateur companies from across the state. The Dunolly Theatre Company is here\, along with the Colac Players\, Ferntree Gully’s 1812 Theatre\, the Frankston Theatre Group\, and 147 other groups. All of them created by the sweat and passion of their members. The Mildura group\, for example\, was formed in 1946 by local teachers to present touring performances by Melbourne’s Little Theatre. The founding group worked so hard that the company soon had the skills and the passion to stage productions of its own. \nThe book entertains us with a cavalcade of writers\, directors\, performers\, designers\, set builders\, technicians\, judges\, critics and musos. It is a generous celebration of the ways in which theatre has been the making of so many of us—giving us the courage\, confidence and sometimes the spirit of defiance to be ourselves. You’ll meet some inspiring theatre-makers along the way\, like the amateur playwright Cenarth Fox\, whose plays have been performed in 43 countries. And the veteran performer\, writer and director Eileen Nelson—an astonishingly generous theatre-maker. \nThis book is a celebration of and for theatre lovers across Victoria. It is lit by an inner passion which all of us share.” \nThe citation for this book which won the 2020 Collaborative Community History Award states\, “In his introduction to this book\, Frank Van Straten\, doyen of Melbourne’s theatre history\, writes that amateur theatre with its infectious enthusiasm and ‘homely\, intimate venues’ creates a ‘special form of magic’. It’s this magic that Cheryl Threadgold captures in her book. The colourful cover invites the reader to explore successive periods of amateur theatre in Victoria and reflect on the many people involved in a single production. Numerous famous players\, such as Zoe Caldwell\, have started careers in amateur theatre. \nThe great strength of this book is the second part\, which features representatives of about 150 musical and non-musical amateur companies across Victoria. These theatre enthusiasts\, from Bairnsdale\, Castlemaine\, Dunolly\, Maffra\, and Swan Hill to the many suburbs of Melbourne\, discuss their companies’ history and a cavalcade of productions. Cheryl Threadgold\, herself a longtime participant in aspects of amateur theatre\, conveys a rich community theatrical culture\, usually overshadowed by sport\, in this wonderful collaborative project.”
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/in-the-name-of-the-theatre/
LOCATION:RHSV Officers’ Mess Upstairs\, 239 A'Beckett Street\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:What's On
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SUMMARY:Port Phillip Bay: Looking out\, Looking in - Aboriginal and Colonial Perspectives
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the first Melbourne Maritime Heritage Network seminar. The MMHN Board faces the year with a sense of optimism in announcing the first event in our 2021 Program.\nThe Kulin Nation’s presence over millennia around Port Phillip Bay\, the Birrarung/Yarra corridor\, its waterways\, swamps and creeks\, was clearly a primary formative element in the maritime heritage we share today. The MMHN is curating this event to acknowledge the genesis of this shared maritime heritage which is little understood and a source of wonder. It is particularly topical at this time of the year (i.e.\, post Australia/Invasion Day) as we all reflect on our shared heritage.\nOur Panel explores the context when such sightings changed the known world of each group\, forever. Hence the title Looking out\, Looking in (‘out’ from the shores and ‘in’ from ships)\, Aboriginal and Colonial Perspectives. \nWhen: 22 February 2021                    Time: 5.30pm – 7.30pm\nWhere: Theatrette\, Library at The Dock\, Docklands.\nDirections: Library at the Dock is located at 107 Victoria Harbour Promenade\, Docklands\, easily accessible via Tram routes 11\, 35\, 48\, 70 and 75. The theatrette is located on the first floor.\nOur Panel:   \n\nHans Bokelund\, Director of Aboriginal Melbourne\, City of Melbourne\nDr Richard Broome\, President of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria\nValentina Bydanova\, multidisciplinary curator and arts educator\n\nDue to COVID-19\, numbers are limited. RSVP essential by 19 February: info@mmhn.org.au \nImage caption: ‘Site of the Melbourne Custom House 1839’\, wood engraving published by Ebenezer & David Syme 1872\, State Library Victoria
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/port-phillip-bay-looking-out-looking-in-aboriginal-and-colonial-perspectives/
LOCATION:Library at the Dock\, 107 Victoria Harbour Promenade\, Docklands\, Victoria\, 3005\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Victorian History Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20210223T113000
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SUMMARY:History Writers' Group with Cheryl Griffin
DESCRIPTION:The History Writers’ Group is for RHSV members only. It is led by Dr Cheryl Griffin and meets monthly on the 4th Tuesday of each month from 11:30am – 1pm. These events are hybrid – some people choose to meet at the RHSV and others choose to Zoom in. The capacity of the group is flexible. When we set this group up in early 2020 it was capped at 15 however\, with some Zooming in\, we can increase the cap slightly. It is not a group where you can dip in or out – it really requires commitment to the full year to achieve the most and build rapport and trust within the group. \nThis is a very interactive group which shares information and assists each other with problems they have encountered in their history writing. There are the occasional guest speakers.  Cheryl is not only a respected historian but also a splendid teacher. Her own writing is delightful and she has the rare skill of making history personal and engaging. \n 
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/history-writers-group-with-cheryl-griffin/
LOCATION:RHSV\, Gordon Moffatt Room\, 239 A'Beckett St\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20210223T183000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20210223T193000
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SUMMARY:Williamstown Croquet Club - Past\, Present and Future
DESCRIPTION:Come along and learn about croquet’s origins in the 19th century and the history of Williamstown’s own club\, founded in 1926. \nClub president\, Paul Lund\, will also provide information on the club’s operations today including membership\, competitions\, social activities and events. \nThis event will be held online via Microsoft Teams. Bookings are essential so that we can send you a link to join the session. You will be emailed a link prior to the event along with instructions on how to participate.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/williamstown-croquet-club-past-present-and-future/
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:20210225T170000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20210225T200000
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SUMMARY:BOOK FAIR
DESCRIPTION:We have been forced to delay the Book Fair because of the latest lockdown. The updated dates appear below. \nEvery year the RHSV hosts a fabulous second-hand history book fair where we sell history books of every imaginable genre. Victorian and Australian history dominate but you’ll find biographies and memoirs\, military history\, art history\, natural history\, classics\, children’s books\, political and social history\, literary history etc \nThere wasn’t a book fair in 2020 so the Drill Hall is bursting at the seams with accumulated donations of books from members and friends: professional and professorial libraries being downsized\, private\, public and educational libraries deaccessioning and old books making way for new. Books are priced to go – we don’t want any books left behind! A COVID silver-lining has to be that everyone Marie-Kondo’ed their libraries in 2020 and we’ve benefited. \nAt the 2021 Book Fair we are honoured to offer the Les Blake Collection for sale. Leslie Bamford James Blake\, O.B.E.\, B.A. Melb.\, M.Ed. Melb.\, F.A.C.E.\, F.R.S.H.V.\, F.I.B.A. was born at Bendigo (Vic.) on 5 March 1913 and died 4 June 1987 at Karingal. A long-time member of the Victorian Education Department\, during which he was an Inspector of Schools (1958-1972)\, and official historian of the Department (1966-1974)\, after which he became Victoria’s State Historian. He made major contributions to the Australian Dictionary of Biography and served in the Australian Army Signal Corps of the A.I.F. during WWII. He was President of the R.H.S.V. from 1966-1971 and Foundation President of the Western Victorian Association of historical Societies (1963-1964). \nThe Book Fair is open to the public however it kicks off with a Members-only night on Thursday 25th Feb from 5pm – 8pm. The fair then remains open to the public on Friday 26th\, Saturday 27th February and Monday 1st March (9am – 5pm except Saturday which is 10am – 4pm).
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/book-fair-2/
LOCATION:RHSV\, Gallery Downstairs\, 239 A'Beckett Street\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20210303T130000
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SUMMARY:1850s Heritage-listed garden in Thomastown: horticulturalist guided tours
DESCRIPTION:Ziebell’s Farmhouse Museum and Heritage Garden has introduced horticulturalist guided tours of its heritage-listed garden\, which dates from the 1850s. \nThe garden’s professional horticulturalist\, Christine Burke\, has tended Ziebell’s Farmhouse garden for nine years.  From her extensive experience\, she has created a talk and tour about the geology\, plants and the history of this heritage-listed cottage garden.  Christine has also drawn on the knowledge of descendants\, especially Sylvia Schultz\, who tended the garden for over 80 years and with whom Christine worked for several years.  Younger descendants still volunteer to tend the garden and\, in doing so\,  maintain the continuous commitment to the garden by Christian and Sophia Ziebell and their descendants from the 1850s to the present day. \nDescribed as one of the finest small cottage gardens in Melbourne\, it features over 70 roses including one planted in the 1860s. It is tangible evidence of the love of beauty and culture that existed at Westgarthtown\, which is an historic dairy farming settlement established by German and Wendish emigrants.  Ziebell’s Farmhouse is Victoria’s oldest German emigrant building and is now an accredited museum and the cultural interpretive centre for Westgarthtown \nRegarding this new initiative\, Garden Co-ordinator\,  Gillian Borrack commented\, “Our new garden tours are another way we share these historic and beautiful gardens.  Christine’s knowledge\, along with that of the descendants’\, have created insights that few people get to experience.  We hope our heritage garden and tours contribute to the appreciation and significance of heritage gardens.” \nWhat:                   Ziebell’s Farmhouse Museum and Heritage Garden Horticulturalist Tours \nWhen:                 1pm Wednesday  3rd  March\,  then the first Wednesday of each month. \nCost:                      $10 per person with a minimum of 6 required for a tour to proceed. \nBookings:            Essential one week prior to tour date. Bookings at www.westgarthtown.org.au \nWhere:                 Ziebell’s Farmhouse Museum and Heritage Garden\, Cnr Gardenia Road and \nAinwick Crescent\, Thomastown.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/1850s-heritage-listed-garden-in-thomastown-horticulturalist-guided-tours/2021-03-03/
LOCATION:Ziebell’s Farmhouse Museum & Heritage Garden\, 100 Gardenia Road\, Thomastown\, VIC\, 3074\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Victorian History Events
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DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20210310T120000
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SUMMARY:Discover Your Military Ancestors
DESCRIPTION:Want to learn more about your family’s military history? \nDiscover the huge range of military records you can search online\, and find out what your ancestors did during the wars of the 20th century. \nRecommended for beginners with basic computer skills. \nBookings required as places are limited to allow for social distancing. \nImage from the Argus Newspaper Collection of Photographs\, State Library of Victoria. ‘Soldiers striking camp at Williamstown\, WWII.’
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/discover-your-military-ancestors/
LOCATION:Williamstown Library\, 104 Ferguson St\, Williamstown\, VIC\, 3016\, Australia
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:20210310T193000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20210310T213000
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SUMMARY:Pre-European Indigenous Culture in the Kew Area - 2021 McIntyre Lecture
DESCRIPTION:2021 MCINTYRE LECTURE \nGary Presland is an archaeologist and historian\, with long-standing research interests in the pre-contact Indigenous culture\, and natural history\, of the Melbourne area. He has written extensively on these topics over the past 40 years.  He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria and an Honorary Fellow in the School of Geography at University of Melbourne. \nThe Kew Historical Society’s 2021 McIntyre Lecture will focus on the society and culture of the Indigenous clan whose estate took in the area that is now Kew. Members of the Wurundjeri-willam clan identified with this area but they also had binding cultural connections with clans whose estate were as much as 185 kms away\, to the north of Kew. \nLecturer – Dr Gary Presland \nWhen – 10 March 2021 \nWhere – Just Theatre\nKew Court House\n188 High Street\nKEW VIC 3101 \nTime: 7.30 for 8 PM \nCost $20 – Box Office 9278 4770 | or book online at www.boroondara.vic.gov.au/events \nSponsors:\nCity of Boroondara\nRotary Club of Balwyn\nKay & Burton Hawthorn
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/pre-european-indigenous-culture-in-the-kew-area-2021-mcintyre-lecture/
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SUMMARY:Launch of exhibition: Tales from the MacRobertson International Air Races
DESCRIPTION:Emeritus Professor Richard Broome AM FRHSV and the Council of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria have much pleasure in inviting our members and friends to the launch of our exhibition\, \nTales from the MacRobertson International Air Races\nwith\nMr Richard Mendelsohn\, Honorary Consul\, Kingdom of the Netherlands\nMr Richard Champion de Crespigny AM \nCurators: Mr Noel Jackling OAM\, Dr David Thompson FRHSV\, Mr John McCulloch \nIn October 1934 a great air-race was planned from London to Flemington\, Melbourne. From a field of 20 planes just 12 arrived. The winner took a whisker under 3 days; the last entrant arrived in February 1935. The best known tale is of the Dutch plane\, Uiver\, which made an emergency landing in Albury during a wild storm; the locals used the town’s lights to flash morse code to the plane and then lit the race-track\, a make-shift aerodrome\, with their car-headlights. Flight was one of the last frontiers and all the tales are unashamedly romantic and full of derring-do. \nPlease note that because of COVID we are restricted in the number of people who can attend this event and only people who have RSVPed will be allowed entry. Wearing of masks\, electronic record keeping and sanitising of hands on arrival is mandatory.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/launch-of-exhibition-tales-from-the-macrobertson-international-air-races/
LOCATION:RHSV\, Gallery Downstairs\, 239 A'Beckett Street\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:What's On
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SUMMARY:BRAZEN HUSSIES: Film Screening and Q&A
DESCRIPTION:BRAZEN HUSSIES reveals a revolutionary chapter in Australian history\, the Women’s Liberation Movement (1965 -1975). \nInterweaving freshly uncovered archival footage\, personal photographs\, memorabilia and lively personal accounts from activists\, BRAZEN HUSSIES shows us how a daring and diverse group of women joined forces to defy the status quo\, demand equality and create profound social change – contributing to one of the greatest social movements of the 20th Century. \nJoin us in celebrating International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month with a screening of this acclaimed film followed by a Q&A with some of these inspiring women. \nPlaces are limited to allow for social distancing. Bookings are required.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/brazen-hussies-film-screening-and-qa/
LOCATION:Williamstown Library\, 104 Ferguson St\, Williamstown\, VIC\, 3016\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Victorian History Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Hobsons Bay Libraries":MAILTO:heritage@hobsonsbay.vic.gov.au
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210312
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220318
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SUMMARY:Tales from the MacRobertson International Air Races
DESCRIPTION:To celebrate Victoria’s centenary in 1934\, Macpherson Robertson sponsored a great air race from England to Melbourne. There were originally 20 entrants of which only 12 arrived in Melbourne. The British winning entrants took a whisker under 3 days\, the last plane to arrive took some 4 months.\nThe Royal Historical Society of Victoria is mounting an exhibition which takes a close look at the entrants in the races (there were two races run concurrently – a speed race and a handicap race) including the Dutch entrant\, the Uiver. The Uiver (stork) is the most famous of the entries even though it came second. It was forced by bad weather to make an emergency landing in Albury where the locals used the town’s lights to spell A L B U R Y in morse code and then created a make-shift aerodrome on the racetrack using car headlights to con the plane down. Macpherson Robertson always maintained that the Uiver\, a commercial KLM flight that went to Batavia in the Dutch East Indies with a little extra hop to Australia\, came closest to his ideal as Robertson sponsored the race to encourage commercial flight not speed. \nThe first aircraft to finish was the De Havilland DH-88 Comet Grosvenor House\, a specially- designed racing aircraft flown by Charles W. A. Scott and Tom Campbell Black. Both pilots were much feted in Melbourne. Photos show a handsome pair being mobbed by thousands. The adulation didn’t last\, Campbell Black was killed by a plane propeller just 2 years later and Scott suicided. \nHarold Brook was the pilot with the least experience – barely the minimum 100 hours. He had a paying passenger\, the 28-year old Miss Ella Lay\, who knitted her way to Australia. She was a pilot herself and the only woman to travel the full race distance from Mildenhall in England to Melbourne. Ella stayed on in Melbourne\, took up nursing\, and in 1941 enlisted in the Australian Army Nursing Service in the very building where the exhibition is being held (the former Army Medical Corps Drill Hall). Ella died in 2005\, aged 99. The Times printed her obituary. \nThe race generated many more fabulous stories including C. J. “Jimmy” Melrose who at 21 was the youngest pilot and one of the few Australians. Jimmy was funded by his mother and his De Havilland Puss Moth was christened My Hildergarde in her honour. He too died\, too young\, just two years later in a plane crash. \nThe last plane to arrive was piloted by Ray Parer and Godfrey Hemsworth and funded by New Guinea miners. Another entry was owned by well-known Australian pioneer aviator Horrie Miller who at the time was managing director of MacRobertson-Miller Aviation. He engaged James Wood and Don Bennett to fly the race however they came unstuck in Aleppo. As Bennett wrote in his autobiography\, they “… hit the ground with a fair wallop and the undercarriage collapsed; down she went and the nose went in as we whipped over on our back. I was in the tail of the machine and my velocity from one end of the cabin to the other was remarkable. Even more astounding was the degree of “concertina-ing” of my body which took place at the far end.” That was the end of their race.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/tales-from-the-macrobertson-international-air-races/
LOCATION:RHSV\, Gallery Downstairs\, 239 A'Beckett Street\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Vera Deakin in War and Peace
DESCRIPTION:The RHSV’s major lecture during Women’s History Month (March). The lecture will start at 6pm and we will be serving drinks prior to that from 5:30pm. \nThe daughter of Prime Minister Alfred Deakin\, Vera Deakin studied music in the Habsburg Empire on the eve of the Great War. Driven by British imperial fervour on her return to Australia\, she bypassed the government’s restrictions on women’s participation in the war effort by serving with the fledgling Australian Red Cross. Aged only 23 in 1915\, she became the founding secretary of the Australian Red Cross Wounded & Missing Enquiry Bureau in Cairo and later London. Narrowly avoiding replacement by a man\, she showed outstanding leadership and was appointed OBE. In peace she married an adventurous military pilot\, Captain Thomas White\, later a cabinet minister. When he was knighted\, she became Lady White. Vera led several humanitarian causes but her lodestar remained the Red Cross. \nCarole Woods OAM is a Fellow and honorary secretary of the RHSV. A former librarian\, bibliographer and freelance historian\, she has been a longtime advocate for community history. She chaired the judges’ panel of the Victorian Community History Awards for seven years and curated two exhibitions at the RHSV.  Her books include Beechworth. A Titan’s Field and the recently published Vera Deakin and the Red Cross. \nChaired by Dr Judith Smart AM.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/vera-deakin-in-war-and-peace/
LOCATION:RHSV\, Gallery Downstairs\, 239 A'Beckett Street\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20210319T170000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20210319T183000
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SUMMARY:LAUNCH OF RHSV WOMEN'S DICTIONARY OF BIOGRAPHY
DESCRIPTION:Do join us to celebrate the launch of this major research project and its online presence.  \nThere is a perception that from its beginnings in 1909\, the Royal Historical Society has been the domain of men. Yet from the outset women have played an active role in the Society in many capacities – as members\, councillors\, fellows\, employees\, volunteers\, patrons\, benefactors. \nThe RHSV Women’s Biographical Dictionary has been established to honour the contributions made by women to the Society\, particularly those who do not appear in the Australian Dictionary of Biography  or Women Australia or The Australian Women’s Register.  Where the life of a featured woman has been documented elsewhere\, her entry will highlight her contribution to the RHSV. \nThis project has been instigated by the indefatigable Cheryl Griffin. Cheryl has done all the research thus far but we are hoping that there are more people out there interested in adding to the dictionary. Katrin Strohl\, President of Coburg Historical Society and talented graphic designer\, has designed the individual pages. Come to the launch and learn how you too can be involved. The dictionary will always be a work-in-progress.  \nPhotos above are (L to R): Mary Webster\, Louise Bakewell and Mary Lyell.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/launch-of-rhsv-womens-dictionary-of-biography/
LOCATION:RHSV\, Gallery Downstairs\, 239 A'Beckett Street\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:What's On
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SUMMARY:Launch of the Jessie Webb Society
DESCRIPTION:  \nRichard Broome AM\, President\, Councillors and Foundation Committee members \nof the Royal Historical Society of Victoria \ninvite you to the launch of \n\nwith special guests\, Annette Webb\, \nGary Presland and Bill Russell. \n  \nCreate history. Make a bequest.  \nOver our considerable lifetime the RHSV has received many bequests which allow us to make great leaps forward. They allow us to tackle the larger projects and these have included restoring significant original artworks\, digitising our unique Pioneer Register\, indexing the on-line Victorian Historical Journals\, funding prizes and\, just as vital if more prosaic\, building our new website and funding our database. \nThe trouble with bequests is that we never get the opportunity to say a heart-felt thank you. So we have established the Jessie Webb Society to honour those who have made a bequest to the RHSV whilst they are still with us. \nJoin the Council and Foundation to raise a toast to Jessie Webb and to celebrate our new society and those who have become its founding members. \n  \nWho was Jessie Webb (1880-1944)? \nIn 1909 Jessie Stobo Watson Webb was not only an original Historical Society of Victoria member (membership No. 30) and the first woman but she also provided rooms in Block Arcade in which our first meeting was held. She was a passionate historian and a true individual who lived by her own rules. Graduating from the University of Melbourne with first class honours in history and political economy\, she became the third woman appointed to the University teaching staff when she joined its history department as an evening lecturer in 1908. \nShe and her friends exemplified the ‘new woman’: intelligent\, emancipated women who led rich intellectual lives. She spent 7 months trekking from Cape Town to Cairo in 1922 and thence to Athens where she spent eight months at the British School of Archaeology which had a huge influence on the rest of her life. She was an alternate Delegate to the League of Nations\, travelled through outback Australia in 1926 in a Baby Austin 7 and returned to Europe\, North Africa and the Middle East in 1936 for one last historical tour. She was a founding member of many academic clubs and associations and lived her life in the pursuit of education and adventure. \nWe want to honour Jessie’s legacy\, and her impact on the RHSV which is still felt over 100 years later\, by naming our bequest society after her. The Jessie Webb Society\, like its namesake\, is there to make a difference and its members understand the power of a legacy. \n“My bequest through the Jessie Webb Society is made in acknowledgement of the enduring value and worth there is in the study of history. I am pleased to provide support for a discipline that gave me not only many years of enjoyable employment\, but also enduring friendships\, and opportunities to contribute to an understanding of our past. \nI am proud to think that\, through the Jessie Webb Society\, my achievements can be of benefit in the future. That\, surely\, is what ‘history’ is about.” \nDr Gary Presland FRHSV \n“As Victoria grows\, we mustn’t forget our heritage in records\, stories\, and historical places and figures. If we neglect the past\, we lose our soul; history provides the links and stories that give our communities meaning. The RHSV has been collecting\, saving and publishing those stories for over 110 years.  \n“By leaving a bequest to the RHSV\, I know I’m helping secure their vital work in protecting Victoria’s heritage\, and the stories and histories of its communities\, into another century.\nJessie Webb loved the past but saw to the future: We can all contribute to the goal of preserving the stories and records of Victoria’s history long into the future. One of the best ways is to leave a bequest to the RHSV Foundation\, which is what I intend to do.\n \n“The success of the RHSV depends upon the generosity of people like you and me. If we value the past\, we must protect its future.” \nProfessor E W Russell \n  \nWe invite you to become a member of the Jessie Webb Society\nThe RHSV established the Jessie Webb Society to honour those who bequeath funds to us. If you make the decision to leave the RHSV a bequest in your will there is no obligation to notify us\, however\, we’d love it if you did so that we can acknowledge your generous gift now and invite you to enjoy the Jessie Webb Society and its benefits. \nFind Out More \nPhotograph of Jessie Webb courtesy of Annette Webb. Taken in her early twenties\, just a few years before she joined the Historical Society of Victoria. 
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/launch-of-the-jessie-webb-society/
LOCATION:RHSV\, Gallery Downstairs\, 239 A'Beckett Street\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:What's On
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SUMMARY:CORAGULAC HOUSE: book launch
DESCRIPTION:Author and historian\, Jennifer F. O’Donnell\, invites RHSV members and friends to celebrate the launch of her latest history\, Coragulac House.  Drinks and light refreshments will be served in the RHSV’s Gallery Downstairs. \nIn the early 1870s\, George Pringle Robertson built “Coragulac”\, nestled in the shelter of Red Rock near Colac. Built of bluestone quarried on the land and designed by architects Davidson and Henderson\, it was an unexceptional mansion with a wide verandah and lacking a tower\, so common in the Western District. \nRobertson’s father William was a member of Batman’s expeditions to Port Phillip and started buying land near Colac in 1840 (at the time of his death in 1874 it is estimated he held 40\,000 acres). Three generations of the Robertson family lived in the area their story being integral to the history and the development of Colac. \nAndrew Spence Chirnside bought “Coragulac” in 1901 and set about radically restructuring the building\, tearing down external walls\, realigning the roof\, raising the billiard room roof\, re-locating the front door and adding a new wing. The architect\, Guyon Purchas\, added conical turrets on each side; internally the house now featured two magnificent fireplaces\, carved by Robert Prenzel\, along with a host of other Art Nouveau additions. In 1903\, Chirnside employed his friend\, Ballarat architect William Braznor\, to erect vast new stables. \nThomas Baker bought “Coragulac” in 1912. A prominent Colac estate agent\, among his other activities\, he was a strong believer in sub-division and opened up the area to farming. He died in “Coragulac” in 1924 and the mansion fell into neglect. \nIn 1932 Len Ralton\, a potato and onion grower\, bought the property and set about rescuing the mansion. Ralton was a founding figure in the Apex movement; when war came\, he answered the call. In 1947 “Coragulac” was put on the market and finally bought by the Matthews brothers in 1950. Members of the Matthews family would own “Coragulac” for next 64 years. Today\, with new owners Gary and Sharyn Gibson\, “Coragulac” is being restored to earlier glory. \nJenny O’Donnell\, historian and photographer\, has carved out a niche writing histories of Victoria’s splendid homesteads and mansions. Her earlier books include Thornebridge: the Bridge Hotel at Murchison\, Noorilim: from wool to wine\, Narrapumelap: a pastoral history\, Ravenswood\, Kawarau and\, most recently\, St Kilda Families. Memorials in Christ Church. 
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/coragulac-house-book-launch/
LOCATION:RHSV\, Gallery Downstairs\, 239 A'Beckett Street\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Victorian History Events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210325
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210329
DTSTAMP:20260415T060407
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SUMMARY:Aviation Cultures Mk.V
DESCRIPTION:This inclusive\, online conference will bring together researchers\, academics\, curators and practitioners to share their knowledge and ideas of flight\, and its place in history and society. \nThe conference will address how aviation has changed the world\, and how the world has changed aviation. \nKeynote addresses will include: \n\nWing Commander Marija ‘Maz’ Jovanovich\, RAAF test pilot;\nMadelyn Shaw\, Smithsonian Institution;\nMarnix ‘Max’ Groot\, airport historian and editor of AirportHistory.org;\nDr Leigh Edmonds\, civil aviation historian;\nFrank Quinlan\, Federation Executive Director of the Royal Flying Doctor Service.\n\nRegistration for the conference is $25\, with $10 concession rate for full-time students\, COVID-affected and the unwaged. \nGet your tickets now \nClick here \nYou can follow Aviation Cultures Mk.V on Twitter (@AvCulturesConf) and on Facebook or visit the Aviation Cultures website (aviationcultures.org) for regular updates. \nWe look forward to meeting you at this online event which will include live video chat\, panel discussions\, digital papers\, presentations\, videos and entertainment by harmony quartet Company B. \nWant to know more? Check out the Aviation Cultures Mk.V flyer and program schedule. \nBest wishes\,\nJames Kightly\, Phil Vabre and the conference team \n 
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/aviation-cultures-mk-v/
CATEGORIES:Victorian History Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20210325T110000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20210325T120000
DTSTAMP:20260415T060407
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SUMMARY:Cataloguing Clinic via Zoom with Jillian Hiscock
DESCRIPTION:Jillian Hiscock\, the RHSV Collections Manager\, started these cataloguing clinics during the early days of COVID and they suit Zoom very well. The clinics run for an hour from 11am – 12noon on the 4th Thursday of each month. It is a relaxed gathering of people who are finding their way through the intricacies of cataloguing material in historical collections which\, as we all know\, fall between a library and a museum with sometimes a bit of art gallery thrown in.  With our membership scattered across Australia please remember that this is Melbourne time – AEDT in summer and AEST in winter. \nJillian always prepares some material on some specific queries but questions are encouraged and\, remember\, a problem shared is a problem halved. The clinics are conversational in format rather than a seminar. If you are new to cataloguing or an old hand you will find plenty to interest you in these sessions. Jillian often has material which is emailed out to attendees after the clinic. \nThe clinics for 2021 will be held (all via Zoom) on these dates: \n\nFeb 25\, 2021 11AM\nMar 25\, 2021 11AM\nApr 22\, 2021 11AM\nMay 27\, 2021 11AM\nJun 24\, 2021 11AM\nJul 22\, 2021 11AM\nAug 26\, 2021 11AM\nSep 23\, 2021 11AM\nOct 28\, 2021 11AM\nNov 25\, 2021 11AM\n\n  \nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nMonthly: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/tZItd-yhqz8oHtJgxpBNwW8ieSnpwIWjKaLP/ics?icsToken=98tyKuGurjsvE9GRsh2BRpwAAoigZ_PwmClBgrd3mwf1IQ5EVVv_M9FMIqVWJ9L7 \nJoin Zoom Meeting (this is applicable to all 10 clinics during 2021)\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86005954246?pwd=eUsyRlRxTE92bU5Wb3IzVjVIcmxKdz09 \nMeeting ID: 860 0595 4246\nPasscode: 217816
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/cataloguing-clinic-via-zoom-with-jillian-hiscock/
LOCATION:ZOOM\, Join from anywhere in the world
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20210328T140000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20210328T170000
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SUMMARY:Walking tour: Colonial Mayors of Prahran
DESCRIPTION:Come and listen to the fascinating stories of the lives of those Colonial Prahran Mayors on a walking tour of St Kilda Cemetery led by Claire Barton. \nSt Kilda Cemetery\, Dandenong Road\, St Kilda East\nMelway 58 F9 \nCost: $15 includes refreshments afterwards \nMeet at the Main Gates at 2.00pm \nBookings required. Ring Gabriel on 0451831102\,\nemail gabrielhermes@live.com or go to http://foskc.org \nWe go in all weathers\, rain\, hail or shine so please wear\nsuitable clothing and footwear and bring an umbrella. \nPhoto caption: Prahran Council meeting 1901. Photograph: Yeoman and Company.\nCourtesy Stonnington History Centre.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/walking-tour-colonial-mayors-of-prahran/
LOCATION:St Kilda Cemetery\, Dandenong Road & Hotham Street\, St Kilda East\, Vic\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Victorian History Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20210407T130000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20210407T140000
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SUMMARY:1850s Heritage-listed garden in Thomastown: horticulturalist guided tours
DESCRIPTION:Ziebell’s Farmhouse Museum and Heritage Garden has introduced horticulturalist guided tours of its heritage-listed garden\, which dates from the 1850s. \nThe garden’s professional horticulturalist\, Christine Burke\, has tended Ziebell’s Farmhouse garden for nine years.  From her extensive experience\, she has created a talk and tour about the geology\, plants and the history of this heritage-listed cottage garden.  Christine has also drawn on the knowledge of descendants\, especially Sylvia Schultz\, who tended the garden for over 80 years and with whom Christine worked for several years.  Younger descendants still volunteer to tend the garden and\, in doing so\,  maintain the continuous commitment to the garden by Christian and Sophia Ziebell and their descendants from the 1850s to the present day. \nDescribed as one of the finest small cottage gardens in Melbourne\, it features over 70 roses including one planted in the 1860s. It is tangible evidence of the love of beauty and culture that existed at Westgarthtown\, which is an historic dairy farming settlement established by German and Wendish emigrants.  Ziebell’s Farmhouse is Victoria’s oldest German emigrant building and is now an accredited museum and the cultural interpretive centre for Westgarthtown \nRegarding this new initiative\, Garden Co-ordinator\,  Gillian Borrack commented\, “Our new garden tours are another way we share these historic and beautiful gardens.  Christine’s knowledge\, along with that of the descendants’\, have created insights that few people get to experience.  We hope our heritage garden and tours contribute to the appreciation and significance of heritage gardens.” \nWhat:                   Ziebell’s Farmhouse Museum and Heritage Garden Horticulturalist Tours \nWhen:                 1pm Wednesday  3rd  March\,  then the first Wednesday of each month. \nCost:                      $10 per person with a minimum of 6 required for a tour to proceed. \nBookings:            Essential one week prior to tour date. Bookings at www.westgarthtown.org.au \nWhere:                 Ziebell’s Farmhouse Museum and Heritage Garden\, Cnr Gardenia Road and \nAinwick Crescent\, Thomastown.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/1850s-heritage-listed-garden-in-thomastown-horticulturalist-guided-tours/2021-04-07/
LOCATION:Ziebell’s Farmhouse Museum & Heritage Garden\, 100 Gardenia Road\, Thomastown\, VIC\, 3074\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Victorian History Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20210420T183000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20210420T193000
DTSTAMP:20260415T060407
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SUMMARY:Finding Families
DESCRIPTION:Hobsons Bay Libraries’ experienced heritage staff will demonstrate how to search for your ancestors across a variety of online platforms\, including Victorian Births Deaths and Marriages records\, Ancestry\, historic newspapers\, and immigration records. Find out important family dates\, where your ancestors worked\, and what they did for a living. \nRecommended for beginners. Basic computer skills recommended. \nBookings are essential and spaces are limited. \nThis event is part of the Australian Heritage Festival.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/finding-families/
LOCATION:Altona Library\, 123 Queen St\, Altona\, VIC\, 3018\, Australia
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:20210420T183000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20210420T203000
DTSTAMP:20260415T060407
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SUMMARY:AGL Shaw Lecture: Law\, Lawyers and La Trobe
DESCRIPTION:Three. That was the number of Attorneys practising in Melbourne when Charles Joseph Latrobe arrived in the Port Phillip colony in 1839. The legal infrastructure of the colony was similarly scant. It included a Police Magistrate\, a civil magistrate\, mounted police\, two justices of the peace\, a police court\, a gaoler\, a flagellator\, two clerks of court but no dedicated court-house.  That was it for a population of 5\,822. When Latrobe left in 1854\, some 15 years later\, the scene was quite different. The now independent colony of Victoria had seen 186 attorneys/solicitors and 63 barristers admitted to practise in that period. There was also a substantial Supreme Court building (and bluestone gaol) with three justices (including a Chief Justice) who had the capacity to hear and interpret the new Victorian statute book. There were also the stirrings of an organised legal profession. The rule of law had been firmly established. \nSo\, what can we say about the evolution of Victoria’s legal system during Latrobe’s time? What prompted its start\, who were the key personalities and what were key moments? \nLeading legal scholar\, Dr Simon Smith AM FRHSV\, will be addressing the above questions when he delivers the 2021 AGL Shaw Lecture which forms part of the RHSV’s Distinguished Lecture series. This lecture is jointly presented by the C. J. La Trobe Society and the RHSV and is always a convivial and lavishly-catered evening. The event will be held in the RHSV’s Gallery Downstairs which is totally accessible and does not involve any stairs.  \n\n\n\n\nSimon Smith is an Adjunct Professor with the Sir Zelman Cowen Centre at Victoria University. He is also a leading legal history scholar and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria (RHSV). He was Vice-President of the RHSV in 2009-2011. In 2016 he edited Judging for the People: A Social History of the Supreme Court in Victoria 1841-2016. \nHis other recent published works include Solicitors and the Law Institute In Victoria 1835-2019: Pathway To A Respected Profession which was commended in the Victorian Community History Awards\,  Barristers Solicitors Pettifoggers: Profiles in Australian Colonial Legal History (2014) and Maverick Litigants: A History of Vexatious Litigants in Australia 1930-2008 (2009). \nAs a Monash University law undergraduate in the 1970s\, Simon helped establish Australia’s first community legal centre\, the Springvale Legal Service. In that context he was a founding editor of a leading practice text\, the Lawyers Practice Manual (Vic). After completing his legal training in Oxford\, he was admitted to practice in 1975. In 1978 he became the first full-time clinical legal education academic in Australia\, based at Springvale. \nThrough that clinical programme\, for a decade\, he helped introduce Monash undergraduates to the practice of law in a supervised poverty law setting. Over 40 years of that programme\, the power of ‘first impressions’ on those future practitioners has contributed to the better practice of law in Australia. \nIn the 1980s\, Simon was a pioneer in alternative dispute resolution and was the first Ombudsman in the Australian financial services sector. In 1991 he helped establish the Society of Consumer Affairs Professionals in Business (SOCAP). He was President in 1996. Later he was Senior Counsel with a top-500 insurance company and a curator of the nationally significant insurance archive\, the Suncorp Insurance Archive\, now in the hands of the State Library of Victoria. \nSimon holds the degrees of B Juris. LL M and PhD from Monash University. In the 2019 Australia Day honours he was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for significant service to the law particularly in consumer affairs\, to higher education\, and to history. \n\n\n\n\nRHSV members please note the later than usual start time for this event. 
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/agl-shaw-lecture-law-lawyers-and-la-trobe/
LOCATION:RHSV\, Gallery Downstairs\, 239 A'Beckett Street\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20210421T190000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20210421T200000
DTSTAMP:20260415T060407
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SUMMARY:Australian Heritage Festival - Preserving your Photos for the Future
DESCRIPTION:Do you have a collection of old photos that you’re not quite sure what to do with? Do you know how to care for them so they survive into the future? Join Debra Parry from Melbourne Conservation Services for an online workshop to learn how to best care for your photos. \n\nDuring this Zoom presentation\, Debra Parry will give a talk on photos from the 19th and 20th century\, and how to conserve these for the 21st century. Find out what resources you need and what kind of problems can arise with handling\, storage\, and display of photos. \nThe presentation will be followed by a Q&A session where you can ask questions and have the opportunity to get brief advice. \nTimes: 7.00pm-8.00pm \nEntry Fees: Adults $10\, Concession $8\, Members $Free \nBooking: Prebooking required – Please book here  \nAttendance Limit: Less than 50 \nFor More Information nationaltrust.org.au/vic/
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/australian-heritage-festival-preserving-your-photos-for-the-future/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20210422T110000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20210422T120000
DTSTAMP:20260415T060407
CREATED:20210310T223133Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210413T092626Z
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SUMMARY:Cataloguing Clinic via Zoom with Jillian Hiscock
DESCRIPTION:Jillian Hiscock\, the RHSV Collections Manager\, started these cataloguing clinics during the early days of COVID and they suit Zoom very well. The clinics run for an hour from 11am – 12noon on the 4th Thursday of each month. It is a relaxed gathering of people who are finding their way through the intricacies of cataloguing material in historical collections which\, as we all know\, fall between a library and a museum with sometimes a bit of art gallery thrown in.  With our membership scattered across Australia please remember that this is Melbourne time – AEDT in summer and AEST in winter. \nJillian always prepares some material on some specific queries but questions are encouraged and\, remember\, a problem shared is a problem halved. The clinics are conversational in format rather than a seminar. If you are new to cataloguing or an old hand you will find plenty to interest you in these sessions. Jillian often has material which is emailed out to attendees after the clinic. \nThe clinics for 2021 will be held (all via Zoom) on these dates: \n\nFeb 25\, 2021 11AM\nMar 25\, 2021 11AM\nApr 22\, 2021 11AM\nMay 27\, 2021 11AM\nJun 24\, 2021 11AM\nJul 22\, 2021 11AM\nAug 26\, 2021 11AM\nSep 23\, 2021 11AM\nOct 28\, 2021 11AM\nNov 25\, 2021 11AM\n\n  \nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nMonthly: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/tZItd-yhqz8oHtJgxpBNwW8ieSnpwIWjKaLP/ics?icsToken=98tyKuGurjsvE9GRsh2BRpwAAoigZ_PwmClBgrd3mwf1IQ5EVVv_M9FMIqVWJ9L7 \nJoin Zoom Meeting (this is applicable to all 10 clinics during 2021)\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86005954246?pwd=eUsyRlRxTE92bU5Wb3IzVjVIcmxKdz09 \nMeeting ID: 860 0595 4246\nPasscode: 217816
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/cataloguing-clinic-via-zoom-with-jillian-hiscock-2/
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:20210427T064500
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20210427T200000
DTSTAMP:20260415T060407
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SUMMARY:"Never Forget Australia"; Transformation at Villers-Bretonneux - a presentation via zoom by Dr Ross McMullin
DESCRIPTION:“Never Forget Australia”; Transformation at Villers-Bretonneux – a presentation via zoom by Dr Ross McMullin\nThe immense German onslaught in March 1918 caused Britain’s gravest crisis of World War I. Australians\, rushed to the rescue\, influenced the destiny of the world more than in any other year. The culmination of their contribution in the conflict’s climax was the stunning counter-attack at Villers-Bretonneux. It was acclaimed as the war’s most brilliant exploit\, and no-one was more significant than Camberwell’s own Pompey Elliott. \nTo commemorate the anniversary of this celebrated feat\, award-winning historian Ross McMullin will illuminate what occurred. Ross has written two books on Pompey\, and his biography Pompey Elliott won awards for both literature and biography. His multi-biography Farewell\, Dear People: Biographies of Australia’s Lost Generation was awarded the Prime Minister’s Prize for Australian History. His other books include Will Dyson: Australia’s Radical Genius\, which was highly commended by the judges of the National Biography Award. \nhttp://www.rossmcmullin.com.au \nWhen : Tuesday 27 April 2021 6:45 for 7pm \nPlease book – the zoom link will be sent after booking \nTo book please call George Fernando 9885 9927 or email enquiries@chs.org.au
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/never-forget-australia-transformation-at-villers-bretonneux-a-presentation-via-zoom-by-dr-ross-mcmullin/
LOCATION:ZOOM\, Join from anywhere in the world
CATEGORIES:Victorian History Events
ORGANIZER;CN="Camberwell Historical Society":MAILTO:enquiries@chs.org.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20210428T110000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20210428T120000
DTSTAMP:20260415T060407
CREATED:20210203T205107Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210203T205201Z
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SUMMARY:Finding Families
DESCRIPTION:Hobsons Bay Libraries’ experienced heritage staff will demonstrate how to search for your ancestors across a variety of online platforms\, including Victorian Births Deaths and Marriages records\, Ancestry\, historic newspapers\, and immigration records. Find out important family dates\, where your ancestors worked\, and what they did for a living. \nRecommended for beginners. Basic computer skills recommended. \nBookings are essential and spaces are limited. \nThis event is part of the Australian Heritage Festival.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/finding-families-2/
LOCATION:Williamstown Library\, 104 Ferguson St\, Williamstown\, VIC\, 3016\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Victorian History Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Hobsons Bay Libraries":MAILTO:heritage@hobsonsbay.vic.gov.au
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210501
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210503
DTSTAMP:20260415T060407
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SUMMARY:TEXTILES IN BLOOM: FASHION & TEXTILES AT VILLA ALBA MUSEUM
DESCRIPTION:A series of installations uniting items from the fashion and design collection of Kew Historical Society within the heritage interiors of the Villa Alba Museum.\nExplore the use of printed floral fabrics and embroidery by Australian and international designers. The exhibits include displays of 19th and 20th century costumes\, millinery\,soft furnishings and accessories. \nA two day event at the Villa Alba Museum highlighting rare items from our fashion and design collection\, many of which will be displayed for the first time. This event is part of the 2021 Australian Heritage Festival. Unfortunately there are restrictions on visitors\, so bookings for the Saturday and Sunday sessions are limited. If you would like more information\, please download the Textiles in Bloom flyer. Tickets can be purchased on eventbrite. A partnership between Villa Alba and Kew Historical Society \nVenues/ Dates and times:\nSaturday 1 May (12.3–2.00pm\, 2.30-4.00pm)\nSunday 2 May (12.3–2.00pm\, 2.30-4.00pm) \nTickets $15
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/textiles-in-bloom-fashion-textiles-at-villa-alba-museum/
LOCATION:Villa Alba\, 44 Walmer St\, Kew\, VIC\, 3101\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Victorian History Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20210505T130000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20210505T140000
DTSTAMP:20260415T060407
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SUMMARY:1850s Heritage-listed garden in Thomastown: horticulturalist guided tours
DESCRIPTION:Ziebell’s Farmhouse Museum and Heritage Garden has introduced horticulturalist guided tours of its heritage-listed garden\, which dates from the 1850s. \nThe garden’s professional horticulturalist\, Christine Burke\, has tended Ziebell’s Farmhouse garden for nine years.  From her extensive experience\, she has created a talk and tour about the geology\, plants and the history of this heritage-listed cottage garden.  Christine has also drawn on the knowledge of descendants\, especially Sylvia Schultz\, who tended the garden for over 80 years and with whom Christine worked for several years.  Younger descendants still volunteer to tend the garden and\, in doing so\,  maintain the continuous commitment to the garden by Christian and Sophia Ziebell and their descendants from the 1850s to the present day. \nDescribed as one of the finest small cottage gardens in Melbourne\, it features over 70 roses including one planted in the 1860s. It is tangible evidence of the love of beauty and culture that existed at Westgarthtown\, which is an historic dairy farming settlement established by German and Wendish emigrants.  Ziebell’s Farmhouse is Victoria’s oldest German emigrant building and is now an accredited museum and the cultural interpretive centre for Westgarthtown \nRegarding this new initiative\, Garden Co-ordinator\,  Gillian Borrack commented\, “Our new garden tours are another way we share these historic and beautiful gardens.  Christine’s knowledge\, along with that of the descendants’\, have created insights that few people get to experience.  We hope our heritage garden and tours contribute to the appreciation and significance of heritage gardens.” \nWhat:                   Ziebell’s Farmhouse Museum and Heritage Garden Horticulturalist Tours \nWhen:                 1pm Wednesday  3rd  March\,  then the first Wednesday of each month. \nCost:                      $10 per person with a minimum of 6 required for a tour to proceed. \nBookings:            Essential one week prior to tour date. Bookings at www.westgarthtown.org.au \nWhere:                 Ziebell’s Farmhouse Museum and Heritage Garden\, Cnr Gardenia Road and \nAinwick Crescent\, Thomastown.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/1850s-heritage-listed-garden-in-thomastown-horticulturalist-guided-tours/2021-05-05/
LOCATION:Ziebell’s Farmhouse Museum & Heritage Garden\, 100 Gardenia Road\, Thomastown\, VIC\, 3074\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Victorian History Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Friends of Westgarthtown":MAILTO:enquiries@westgarthtown.org.au
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