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SUMMARY:Seminar: EARLY MELBOURNE SUBURBS 1835-1880
DESCRIPTION:The RHSV and the Genealogical Society of Victoria are delighted to co-present this full-day seminar which will give participants a deep understanding of the forces and influences which have shaped Melbourne’s early growth. \nThe seminar will be opened with a overview by Gary Presland on how Melbourne’s Geography shaped its development. \nThen the following historians will explain the development of their locale \n\nFootscray by Carmel Taig\nPrahran by Steven Haby & Judith Buckrich\nHeidelberg by Graham Thorley\n“Up Sydney Road” – Brunswick & Coburg by Cheryl Griffin\n\nThis seminar is designed for those who are researching their family or community history and want to understand the why\, who\, when\, what and how of Melbourne’s growth. Were the influencing factors economic? geographic? climatic? demographic? religious? commercial? opportunistic? geological? corrupt? dictated by government? What drew our ancestors to settle where they did? \nIt will also be of interest to those who merely want to deepen their understanding of Melbourne’s development without having a history project to hand. \nRefreshments: Light lunch & refreshments provided throughout the day. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/early-melbourne-suburbs-1835-1880/
LOCATION:RHSV ZOOM by Invitation\, Australia
CATEGORIES:What's On,Workshop
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SUMMARY:PEOPLE AND CHANGES TO TAY CREGGAN
DESCRIPTION:An opportunity to see inside the magnificient Tay Creggan\, in Yarra Street\, Hawthorn.  This heritage\nhome is now Strathcona year 9 campus. Diana Little will be talking about PEOPLE AND CHANGES TO TAY CREGGAN. \nA book on Yarra Street by Elizabeth Love and Jennifer Bowen\, will also be launched on this day. \nDiana Little has been a staff member at Strathcona for 40 years! She was teacher-in-charge from 1983 to 1991. She currently looks after the alumni. \nSince June 2009\, Tay Creggan has been listed in the Victorian Heritage Register recognising its\n‘architectural significance as one of the finest examples in Victoria of the Victorian Queen Anne Revival style and as one of the most picturesque houses built in Victoria in the late nineteenth century.’ \nFor more information please contact the Hawthorn Historical Society: hawthornhistoricalsociety@gmail.com
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/people-and-changes-to-tay-creggan/
LOCATION:Tay Creggan Strathcona Baptist Girls Grammar\, 30 Yarra Street\, Hawthorn\, VIC\, 3122\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Victorian History Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Hawthorn Historical Society":MAILTO:hawthornhistoricalsociety@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Gippsland: Cataloguing and Digitisation series of six workshops
DESCRIPTION:The RHSV is offering a series of 6 linked workshops (three Saturdays over three months) which cover cataloguing and digitisation. This series of workshops is progressive\, starting with basic concepts and building in complexity. \nWe have spaced the workshops so that participants have time in which to put into practice their new skills before the next workshop. Participants need to bring their own lap-top. \nSome participants will want to book for the full series of 6 workshops and others will want to choose those individual workshops that are most suitable for them. So\, although the series is designed as a cohesive whole\, the individual workshops also work as stand-alone training sessions. This booking page is for those who want to book for the entire series. If you want to book for individual workshops please click on those workshops below or return to the What’s On menu. \nAll workshops are limited to 20 participants and will be led by Sophie Shilling\, our digital expert. They are all to be held at the library at Federation University’s Gippsland Campus in Churchill. \nTea and coffee are available throughout the day however participants will need to bring their lunch. \nSATURDAY 15 FEBRUARY 9:30 AM– 12:30 PM\nWorkshop 1: Computer cataloguing for absolute beginners\nThis is a workshop for those who are new to computers\, and small organisations who do not have the resources to use cataloguing software. Using only Excel\, we will demonstrate how to create a simple catalogue that still complies with international standards. It will cover some cataloguing terminology\, simple keyboard shortcuts for efficiency\, and how to back-up your Excel files. We will also learn how to use and create a thesaurus/controlled vocabulary. By the end of this workshop\, participants will be able to create a catalogue in Excel that can be exported to a cataloguing software program in the future. \nSATURDAY 15 FEBRUARY 1:30 PM – 4:30 PM\nWorkshop 2: Using cataloguing software\nThis workshop is for small organisations that are going to start use cataloguing software. Participants will have the opportunity to create catalogue records using cataloguing software\, and will learn how to move import an existing catalogue from Excel. This workshop is suitable for those who have created catalogue records using Excel and are looking to try some good cataloguing options before committing to one software application. \nSATURDAY 21 MARCH 9:30 AM– 12:30 PM\nWorkshop 3: Scanning for beginners\nThis workshop is aimed at those who are new to scanning. It will cover some terminology relating to digital images\, and how to prepare documents for scanning before participants scan some documents using flatbed scanners. Participants will compare the document to the digital image and learn basic image manipulation to have the best possible digitised version. Then\, file naming and storage standards will be applied to the digitised documents. By the end of this workshop\, participants will be able to scan documents confidently. \nSATURDAY 21 MARCH 1:30 PM – 4:30 PM\nWorkshop 4: Digitising books and photographing objects\nIn this intermediate digitisation workshop\, we will introduce participants to best-practice digitisation techniques and procedures. Participants will have the opportunity to digitise books using a book scanner\, and to set up a site for object photography. Then\, we will introduce some image manipulation techniques including making thumbnails and watermarks. This workshop is aimed at those who are comfortable using a flatbed scanner and would like to expand their digitisation and digital image manipulation skills. \nSATURDAY 18 APRIL 9:30 AM– 12:30 PM\nWorkshop 5: Looking after digital files\nThis is a basic digital preservation workshop. The workshop will begin with brief project management skills including templates for policies and procedures. We will discuss digital storage\, how to create backups\, and how to check if files are damaged. Participants will learn how to describe an object using Dublin Core so that digital files can be discoverable. \nSATURDAY 18 APRIL 1:30 PM – 4:30 PM\nWorkshop 6: Making collections accessible\nObjects need to be accessible\, whether that is to people managing a collection\, to visitors\, or to the public. This workshop will introduce themes of copyright and privacy that relate to historical collections. Participants will learn how to optimise catalogue records for discovery\, how to write for social media\, and create digital exhibitions. \nALL 6 WORKSHOPS (OVER 3 DAYS):  \nRHSV members and members of RHSV affiliated societies: $150    \nNon-RHSV members: $225\nINDIVIDUAL WORKSHOPS (HALF-DAY):\nRHSV members and members of RHSV affiliated societies: $30       \nNon-RHSV members: $45\nQueries: +61 3 9326 9288 / office@historyvictoria.org.au
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/gippsland-cataloguing-and-digitisation-series-of-six-workshops/
LOCATION:Federation University Gippsland Campus Library\, Northways Road\, Churchill\, VIC\, 3842\, Australia
CATEGORIES:What's On
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SUMMARY:Gippsland Workshop 1: COMPUTER CATALOGUING FOR ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS
DESCRIPTION:This workshop is the first in a series of six workshops on digitisation and cataloguing to be held at Federation University’s Gippsland Campus in Churchill. If you wish to purchase a discounted ticket to all six workshops click here. \nThis is a workshop for those who are new to computers\, and small organisations who do not have the resources to use cataloguing software. Using only Excel\, we will demonstrate how to create a simple catalogue that still complies with international standards. It will cover some cataloguing terminology\, simple keyboard shortcuts for efficiency\, and how to back-up your Excel files. We will also learn how to use and create a thesaurus/controlled vocabulary. By the end of this workshop\, participants will be able to create a catalogue in Excel that can be exported to a cataloguing software program in the future. \nThe series of 6 linked workshops (three Saturday morning & afternoons over three months) cover aspects of cataloguing and digitisation. This series of workshops is progressive\, starting with basic concepts and building in complexity. \nParticipants need to bring their own lap-top. \nAll workshops are limited to 20 participants and will be led by Sophie Shilling\, our digital expert. They are all to be held at the library at Federation University’s Gippsland Campus in Churchill. \nTea and coffee are available throughout the workshop however participants staying for both workshops will need to bring their lunch. \nINDIVIDUAL WORKSHOPS (HALF-DAY):\nRHSV MEMBERS AND MEMBERS OF RHSV AFFILIATED SOCIETIES: $30       \nNON-RHSV MEMBERS: $45\n(ALL 6 WORKSHOPS (OVER 3 DAYS): \nRHSV MEMBERS AND MEMBERS OF RHSV AFFILIATED SOCIETIES: $150    \nNON-RHSV MEMBERS: $225)\nQUERIES: +61 3 9326 9288 / OFFICE@HISTORYVICTORIA.ORG.AU\nCheck out the other workshops: \nWorkshop 1: Computer cataloguing for absolute beginners\nWorkshop 2: Using cataloguing software\nWorkshop 3: Scanning for beginners\nWorkshop 4: Digitising books and photographing objects\nWorkshop 5: Looking after digital files\nWorkshop 6: Making collections accessible
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/gippsland-workshop-1-computer-cataloguing-for-absolute-beginners/
LOCATION:Federation University Gippsland Campus Library\, Northways Road\, Churchill\, VIC\, 3842\, Australia
CATEGORIES:What's On,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Gippsland Workshop 2: USING CATALOGUING SOFTWARE
DESCRIPTION:This workshop is the second in a series of six workshops on digitisation and cataloguing to be held at Federation University’s Gippsland Campus in Churchill. If you wish to purchase a discounted ticket to all six workshops click here. \nThis workshop is for small organisations that are going to start use cataloguing software. Participants will have the opportunity to create catalogue records using cataloguing software\, and will learn how to move import an existing catalogue from Excel. This workshop is suitable for those who have created catalogue records using Excel and are looking to try some good cataloguing options before committing to one software application. \nThe series of 6 linked workshops (three Saturday morning & afternoons over three months) cover aspects of cataloguing and digitisation. This series of workshops is progressive\, starting with basic concepts and building in complexity. \nParticipants need to bring their own lap-top. \nAll workshops are limited to 20 participants and will be led by Sophie Shilling\, our digital expert. They are all to be held at the library at Federation University’s Gippsland Campus in Churchill. \nTea and coffee are available throughout the workshop however participants staying for both workshops will need to bring their lunch. \nINDIVIDUAL WORKSHOPS (HALF-DAY):\nRHSV MEMBERS AND MEMBERS OF RHSV AFFILIATED SOCIETIES: $30       \nNON-RHSV MEMBERS: $45\n(ALL 6 WORKSHOPS (OVER 3 DAYS): \nRHSV MEMBERS AND MEMBERS OF RHSV AFFILIATED SOCIETIES: $150    \nNON-RHSV MEMBERS: $225)\nQUERIES: +61 3 9326 9288 / OFFICE@HISTORYVICTORIA.ORG.AU\nCheck out the other workshops: \nWorkshop 1: Computer cataloguing for absolute beginners\nWorkshop 2: Using cataloguing software\nWorkshop 3: Scanning for beginners\nWorkshop 4: Digitising books and photographing objects\nWorkshop 5: Looking after digital files\nWorkshop 6: Making collections accessible
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/gippsland-workshop-2-using-cataloguing-software/
LOCATION:Federation University Gippsland Campus Library\, Northways Road\, Churchill\, VIC\, 3842\, Australia
CATEGORIES:What's On,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Translating European Culture to Colonial Melbourne: James Goold and his Legacies
DESCRIPTION:This international conference celebrates the conclusion of an Australian Research Council Discovery Project on Archbishop Goold and his patronage. Hosted by the project’s research team\, it brings a comparative dimension to our research with keynote contributions on the cultural visions of the Church in seventeenth-century Spain\, in nineteenth-century Canada\, and with Anglicanism in nineteenth-century Melbourne. It will present very recent research on religious orders in Australia\, Goold’s patronage of contemporary artists\, and the nineteenth architects who have contributed significant heritage buildings to the built environment of Melbourne and country Victoria. \n  \nFREE CONFERENCE \nREGISTRATION
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/translating-european-culture-to-colonial-melbourne-james-goold-and-his-legacies/
LOCATION:Newman College\, 887 Swanston St\, Parkville\, VIC\, 3052\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Victorian History Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="University of Melbourne":MAILTO:jaynie@unimelb.edu.au
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SUMMARY:John Marshall and Bounty Migration to Port Phillip
DESCRIPTION:Emeritus Professor Graeme Davison AO\, Chair of the History Council of Victoria\, will launch Dr Liz Rushen’s book\, John Marshall: Shipowner\, Lloyd’s reformer and emigration agent. \nAfter the launch\, Dr Rushen will deliver a paper which explores the significant role John Marshall played in the white settlement of the Port Phillip District. When Port Phillip was first opened up for settlement\, Marshall was Britain’s most active emigration agent: in the three years 1839-1841\, he sent 21 ships containing nearly 5000 bounty migrants to the new settlement. A major shipowner of London\, Marshall instigated reform of Lloyd’s Register of Shipping and established Britain’s first emigration depot at Plymouth\, but today his contributions to the shipowning and merchant worlds of the nineteenth century have been largely forgotten. \nDr Liz Rushen\, well-known to RHSV members\, is a Melbourne-based historian who has written extensively on nineteenth-century migration to Australia. \nDrinks are served in the Gallery Downstairs from 5:15pm\, with the launch / lecture starting at 5:30pm. Books will be available for purchase and signing by the author.  \nPenny Larkins from The Good Girl Song Project will also be performing at the launch.  \nImmigration was as controversial in the nineteenth century as it is today. Australia has a long history of migration and is considered one of the world’s great immigration success stories\, but this process has not been without cost. \nThis book tells the story of the most active emigration agent of the nineteenth-century: John Marshall. His influence can be read in the naming of the town Marshall\, outside Geelong\, Victoria\, and in the lives of the descendants of the thousands of people he assisted to migrate to the British colonies of New Zealand\, Canada and North America\, Cape Town and most importantly\, Australia. Marshall’s work also impacts the world today through Lloyd’s Register of Shipping. \nA brilliant strategist\, Marshall instigated a review of the classification of ships and the merger of the red and green registers used by Lloyd’s shipowners and underwriters\, and later established Britain’s first emigration depot at Plymouth. Enterprise was much-admired in the early to mid-nineteenth century and Marshall was one of the most active entrepreneurs of the period. He was a merchant-adventurer and superb logistician who read the marketplace and was prepared to move to a new start-up each time his finances dictated a fresh start: brokerage\, trade\, shipping\, emigration\, coal. \nMarshall had both the vision and analytical skills to achieve great things\, but he lacked business acumen or the personality to successfully carry through any of his undertakings. This book links the various facets of Marshall’s life from his humble beginnings to his impoverished end. It explains how an unknown insurance broker from the provinces could rise to be a key player in London’s ship owning and merchant world of the early nineteenth century. \n 
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/john-marshall-and-bounty-migration-to-port-phillip/
LOCATION:RHSV\, Gallery Downstairs\, 239 A'Beckett Street\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:What's On
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SUMMARY:Creating a Tramway Titan
DESCRIPTION:In 2020\, Melbourne retains the title of having the largest electric street tram system in the world. This presentation will look at the tramway’s history and why Melbourne retains the title of being a Tramway Titan. The Prahran and Malvern Tramways Trust played a part in this. A Public Private Partnership built a capable tram network in 1885\, and the MMBW was formed in 1919. \nOur guest speaker will be Warren Doubleday\, Manager of the Melbourne Tram Museum collection\, and Museum Services Manager of the Ballarat Tramway Museum. Come prepared to be intrigued by the facts and related stories. \nThis is a free event presented by the Malvern Historical Society. Supper will be served. \nBookings essential: Lorraine 9885 9082 by 16 Feb. \nAll welcome!
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/creating-a-tramway-titan/
LOCATION:Malvern Town Hall\, Corner High Street and Glenferrie Road Malvern\, Melbourne\, 3144\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Victorian History Events
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SUMMARY:Book launch: Gita: Melbourne’s First Yoga School – 65 years of history
DESCRIPTION:Dr Carolyn Rasmussen will be launching Fay Woodhouse’s latest book\, Gita: Melbourne’s First Yoga School – 65 years of history at the RHSV. This is the first published history of any yoga school in Australia and it provides a context to the development of yoga in Australia.                     \nFounded in 1954 by Margrit Segesman\, Gita soon became the first full-time yoga school with its permanent home in Melbourne. During the 1970s second wave of feminism\, when teaching yoga offered women a viable career path\, the number of Gita teachers grew. \nIn the 1980s new teacher training courses\, a teachers’ guild and a charitable foundation were introduced. Today Gita retains its flagship teacher training course while embracing the digital world offering classes and courses across the airwaves. It has truly forged a place in Victoria’s cultural landscape. \nFay Woodhouse is a professional historian who has written widely on Australian social and political history and is the author of several entries in the Australian Dictionary of Biography and The Encyclopaedia of Melbourne. Her publications include histories of Monash and Melbourne Universities\, the 150-year history of Tahbilk Wines and the 100-year history of d’Arenberg Wines. Biographies include the nineteenth century Scottish stockbreeder and pioneer pastoralist\, Duncan MacGregor and the physician Leslie Latham. She has recently edited the biography of Melbourne’s first surveyor\, Robert Russell and the memoirs of the businessman\, Clive Smith. Fay regularly presents papers at conferences and contributes book chapters and articles to scholarly journals. \n\n\n\nCarolyn Rasmussen is an honorary fellow at the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies\, University of Melbourne. Carolyn does research in Australian political and social history and biography. Her dual biography of progressive politicians and activists Maurice and Doris Blackburn\, The Blackburns: Private Lives\, Public Ambition was published in March 2019 by MUP. She is chair of the Victorian Working Party of the Australian Dictionary of Biography and is currently researching a history of Computer Science and Communication and Information Technology at the University of Melbourne.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/book-launch-gita-melbournes-first-yoga-school-65-years-of-history/
LOCATION:RHSV\, Gallery Downstairs\, 239 A'Beckett Street\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Victorian History Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200224T133000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200224T150000
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SUMMARY:Starting Family History
DESCRIPTION:The Genealogical Society of Victoria offers RHSV members & friends an introduction to the resources and skills needed to immerse yourself in family history. \nFor anyone contemplating researching their family this event is key. It is also of great interest for those undertaking more general research as family research skills and resources can be used to create histories for any characters\, not just your family. The GSV has not just an impressive research centre but it hosts a multitude of focused research groups which meet monthly to assist each other with knotty problems. As we all know family research is more than births\, deaths and marriages and good research skills and resources are needed to put flesh on bones. A couple of years ago the RHSV was fortunate to absorb some of the GSV’s library when they downsized and we will be hosting joint workshops and seminars throughout the year. \nThe two speakers will be Jenny Redman (current President) and David Down (immediate Past President) who will cover three topics: \n\nIntroduction to the GSV\nStarting family history\nDNA\n\nand ending with Q&A. \nThis event is limited to 15 so that David & Jenny have time to answer everyone’s questions.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/starting-family-history/
LOCATION:Genealogical Society of Victoria\, Level 1\, 10 Queen Street\, Melbourne\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200225T113000
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SUMMARY:RHSV History Writers' Group inaugural meeting
DESCRIPTION:Writing can be a lonely occupation and there are only so many drafts one’s partner is prepared to read!   \nOur RHSV History Writers’ Group will meet monthly at the RHSV to peer-edit and share feedback with other writers of history. It is always helpful to be able to chew the fat with others on the same path and we all want to be better writers. Your writing project might be short or long\, academic history\, family history\, memoir\, community history\, creative non-fiction or even historical fiction. There will be occasional guest speakers who will cover subjects like research\, use of images\, publishing possibilities and professional editing.  \nAt the first meeting we will nut out the nitty-gritty of just how this group will operate and its program for the next few months. Some preliminary reading will be sent out prior to the first meeting. If you’d like to ‘check-it-out’ do register below and come along. Everyone is more than welcome to bring their lunch and we’ll have tea/coffee for all. Meetings will then be on the 4th Tuesday of each month. \nWe are thrilled that Cheryl Griffin will be the convenor. Cheryl has posed questions/issues below that could be discussed at the Writers’ Group: \nRespecting privacy. We gather information from many sources and roll them into a story\, but in doing so\, we may reveal secrets that have been hidden for years or expose ‘shameful’ episodes in a family or community’s lives. How far should we go to tell the ‘real’ story?  I delivered a paper at a Female Convict Research Centre Seminar that touched on this in 2014 – https://www.femaleconvicts.org.au/docs/seminars/Journeys_CherylGriffin.pdf \nDealing with culturally sensitive material. Some things will be considered culturally inappropriate in 2020 but were acceptable at the time. I’m thinking of racist\, sexist\, religious utterances. And\, in using this material\, will we be inciting further racism\, sexism etc. Or be seen to endorse the attitudes of the time? I’m working on a project with my niece’s husband relating to his paternal great-grandparents and a journey they made in Northern Rhodesia in 1930/31. We’re trying to decide how to negotiate the ‘minefield’ of the racist comments in his great-grandmother’s account of that journey and stitch together a story that doesn’t shy away from the issue but places the racism of the time into context. It’s a tricky one! \nFinding the extraordinary in the ordinary. There’s a piece of mine on Wikinorthia on my street that might provide an example. I use the historic present tense and speculate and imagine – that might spark some conversation. Don’t mind if it’s ripped apart\, as long as it provides a talking point – https://wikinorthia.net.au/the-extraordinary-in-the-ordinary-the-story-of-piera-street/ And there’s sure to be other work that would provide the same stimulus. \nHonest History. http://honesthistory.net.au/wp/ Now this website and the focus of the Honest Historians would definitely provide a talking point. Or we could go off at a tangent and address the question of how we provide balanced and honest history in the internet age when so many of the local histories\, for example\, were written in the pre-WWW\, pre-TROVE age? \n  \nCHERYL GRIFFIN attended La Trobe University where she majored in history and English. She later completed a Master of Education and a PhD in the field of the history of education. She worked as a secondary teacher for more than thirty-five years. She has wide-reaching historical interests and since her retirement has volunteered at the Female Convict Research Centre in Hobart\, at Coburg Historical Society\, at the Royal Historical Society of Victoria and at the GSV. She has written articles and presented papers on a wide variety of historical topics\, contributed to a number of books on the lives of Tasmanian female convicts and in 2017 wrote The Old Boys of Coburg State School Go to War for Coburg Historical Society.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/rhsv-inaugural-writers-group/
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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DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200228T213000
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SUMMARY:Specialist History Tour: Sharing the Universe at Melbourne Observatory
DESCRIPTION:Last year this event booked out in less than 24 hours! It is an RHSV members-only tour.  \nThis is a VIP tour of Melbourne Observatory\, formally acknowledged as a place of outstanding national scientific\, architectural\, historical\, astronomical and cultural significance\, and a potential nomination for UNESCO World Heritage listing. \nHistorians and astronomers of the Astronomical Society of Victoria (ASV) including past President\, Perry Vlahos\, and Dr Barry Clark will attend and show and guide you in the Melbourne Observatory site. Depending on the weather you may see Venus\, the moon’s craters\,mountains and valleys\, the Orion nebula\, the Cat’s Eyes binary and the beautiful blue and orange colours in the binary star in Canis Major. \nMelbourne Observatory was one of only four nineteenth century observatories in the Southern Hemisphere\, and provided critical infrastructure for the functioning of the colony and the wider scientific world. The Photoheliograph and South Equatorial House were constructed to allow observations to be made of the Transit of Venus in 1874\, part of a concerted\, world-wide project that yielded information new to science. \nIn 1875\, the Astronomer Royal praised the Melbourne Observatory for its production of “the best catalogue of stars of the Southern Hemisphere ever published”. The Observatory also played a vital role in the exploration of Antarctica in the early twentieth century by providing the basis for magnetic surveys. \nDuring the nineteenth century the Great Melbourne Telescope at the Melbourne Observatory generated great community pride and was then a symbol of the city’s sophistication and achievement. In its time it was recognised internationally as one of the best telescopes employed in pursuit of new discoveries in the sky.” \nMelbourne Observatory is now on the National Heritage List (early 2018). \nImportant information about the tour: \n\nEach tour consists of a max of 12 people. If there is sufficient interest we will book two tours which will occur simultaneously.\nThe tour is conducted at night and are not suitable for wheelchairs due to narrow entrances and staircases. This tour includes entry into confined spaces and climbing stairs\, therefore requires a moderate level of physical fitness and mobility\nThe tour will not be cancelled due to overcast or inclement weather conditions. Our guide will conduct an informative tour although the use of telescopes for observation in these conditions will not occur\nThis program is not suitable for children under the age of 8 years. Children 8 years and above must be accompanied by an adult.\n\n\n\nThis is both an indoor and outdoor activity. Please wear appropriate clothing for weather conditions and appropriate footwear.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/specialist-history-tour-sharing-the-universe-at-melbourne-observatory/
LOCATION:Melbourne Observatory\, Birdwood Avenue\, Royal Botanic Gardens\, VIC\, 3004\, 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:20200229T100000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200229T120000
DTSTAMP:20260420T043807
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SUMMARY:Box Hill Cemetery Tour
DESCRIPTION:To coincide with the beginning of Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day in March\, our tour will focus on women in Box Hill cemetery. We will visit the graves of a variety of women\, from nurses\, teachers and artists to pioneers of women’s organisations. Come along and learn about the part that some women have played in Victoria’s history.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/box-hill-cemetery-tour/
LOCATION:Box Hill Cemetery\, 395 Middleborough Road\, Box Hill\, VIC\, 3128\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Victorian History Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Box Hill Historical Society":MAILTO:boxhillhistory@gmail.com
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