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SUMMARY:Our Chinese Community
DESCRIPTION:Please contact the organiser before attending this event in case it has been cancelled. \nOur Chinese Community Exhibition opens daily from 1st April 11am till 3pm at Echuca Historical Society Museum\, 1 Dickson Street Echuca 3564\nThis exhibition tells the story of some of our earliest residents the Chinese. Find out why our first Chinese residents made Echuca home.\nChinese market gardeners arrived in Echuca in April 1865 and by 1892 there were seventeen different Chinese paying rates on land. Others had experience as bankers\, storekeepers and interpreters\, general labourers and even a river boat owner/captain.\nThere were many marriages between white women and Chinese men on the goldfields and then in towns to where the miners moved when the gold failed. Find out about the burning tower.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/our-chinese-community/
LOCATION:ECHUCA HISTORICAL SCOEITY MUSEUM\, 1 Dickson Street\, Echuca\, victoria\, 3564\, Australia
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200505T081500
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200505T174500
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SUMMARY:There is part of my heart in Wonthaggi*
DESCRIPTION:This event is currently cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It may be postponed until later in the year. For those who have booked  a full-refund will be issued. \nThe RHSV is reviving a wonderful old tradition of organising tours to our colleagues in historical societies across rural and regional Victoria. First cab off the rank is Wonthaggi – a town with an unusual history as a State Modern Town. \nSome members will want the flexibility and independence of driving themselves to Wonthaggi\, and others\, wanting to be driven\,  can join our mini-bus for 11 passengers. So those driving themselves to Wonthaggi will meet us at the Wonthaggi Historical Society at 10:30am and will then say goodbye at the end of the tour of the State Mine. \nItinerary \n8:15am       leave RHSV\, 239 A’Beckett St\, Melbourne \n9:10am       pick up passengers at Mt Waverley (pick up point tba) \n10:30am    arrive Wonthaggi Museum\, Wonthaggi Historical Society\, \nRailway Station\, Murray Street. \nWe’ll have a cuppa and talk with the members of the WHS before a tour of \ntheir museum and a walking tour of the town. \n12:45pm      lunch at the Wonthaggi Workers Club\, 75 Graham Street \n2:00pm        arrive at State Coal Mine for a 2:30pm private tour. (Garden St) \n3:30pm        depart for Melbourne \n5pm              drop people at Mt Waverley \n5:45pm         arrive back at RHSV. \nLunch is not included in the ticket prices as it is simpler if everyone makes their choices on the day and pays individually for their lunch. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Wonthaggi and District Historical Society had its beginning in the late 1950’s with the recognition that Wonthaggi’s history should be preserved. A public meeting was held and the historical society was formed. Over the ensuing years the collection of artifacts has grown\, as has its collection of photographs and documents. The society has copies of local newspapers\, dating back to 1910\, and audio tapes of many and varied speakers with their rich tapestry of experiences. \n\n\nLunch will be in the bistro at the Wonthaggi Workmens Club which was founded in 1911 when the Victorian Government attempted to deal with the drinking problem in mining communities. Clubs were\, supposedly\, where men could drink and socialise in a civilised manner. The Wonthaggi Workmen’s Co-operative Club grew out of the Workmen’s Club movement in the UK – similar to Mechanics Institutes – places where the working man could be educated and elevated whilst drinking in a civilised manner! \n\n\nWonthaggi State Coal Mine \nAt the beginning of the twentieth century black coal from NSW powered Victoria’s railway system\, gasworks and manufacturing industries. In 1909 a prolonged strike on the NSW coalfields threatened Victoria’s economic viability\, and the Victorian Government sought to end its dependence by mining its own\, poorer-quality coal deposits in South Gippsland at Wonthaggi which at the time was sparsely settled and possessed no transport links with Melbourne. The first shipment of Wonthaggi coal occurred on 25 November 1909 being dispatched by bullock teams to Inverloch and thence by ship to Melbourne. Three months later transportation by rail commenced after a 27 mile line was constructed from Nyora in the record time of 10 weeks. In 1910 the Government laid out a model township which\, by 1921\, had a population of 5\,000+ making Wonthaggi one of the largest towns in Gippsland. \nThe Wonthaggi State Coal Mine developed into a huge mining complex which operated until 1968. Within the first year of operation a power station was built to supply electricity to the whole area and installation was under way of the necessary engineering works for mining\, ventilation\, water drainage\, haulage\, and coal processing. The mine’s peak period of employment was the year 1925-26 when 1\,821 men were employed. During its operational life\, the Wonthaggi State Coal Mine produced 16.74 million tons\, making the field the largest black coal producer in the State’s history and the fourth largest in Australia. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n* There is Part of my Heart in Wonthaggi was written in 1934 by Jack O’Hagan\, best known for Along the Road to Gundagai. He was commissioned by the Government to tour towns in Victoria & write a theme song for each town. When the soldiers marched home this is the song they sang. 
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/part-of-my-heart-in-wonthaggi/
LOCATION:Royal Historical Society of Victoria\, 239 A'Beckett St\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
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DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200512T190000
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SUMMARY:ZOOM History Bookclub: The Maddest Place on Earth
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted that Jill Giese\, the author of he Maddest Place on Earth\, will join our Zoom book club on the 12 May. \nDue to  the COVID-19 pandemic this group will be conducted by ZOOM. Do read the book now (what else do we have to do except read?) so you’ll be ahead of the game when life resumes and we will keep you updated as to when and how the ZOOM meeting can occur. \nOur bookclub usually meets monthly on the 2nd Tuesday of each month from 5:30pm – 7pm at the RHSV. We ponder the big issues and the small over a glass of wine and some cheese but for the forseeable future it will be in your own lounge-room. \n\nGold-fuelled Melbourne was booming\, but dwelling in the fault lines of the proud young colony was an alarming fact – Victoria had the highest rate of insanity in the world. Was it the antipodean sun\, gold mania\, excessive masturbation\, the heady pace of modern life? \nThe true story of colonial Victoria’s quest to cure insanity unfolds through the lives of three English newcomers – a gifted artist\, exiled from his homeland for his madness; an ambitious doctor\, bringing enlightened treatment ideals to his post in charge of the overflowing asylum; and a mysterious undercover journalist\, who sensationally exposed the lunatics’ plight in Melbourne’s press. \nAmid the clamour of fraught endeavours and maddened minds\, the story reveals unexpected hope\, creativity and ennobling humanity – and surprising contemporary relevance as we continue to grapple with this ancient human malady. \nWinner 2018 Victorian Premier’s History Award \nLonglisted 2018 Nib Literary Award \nJill Giese is a clinical psychologist and writer\, whose extensive career in mental health encompasses many years of clinical practice and executive roles in policy and advocacy. \n\nThe following bookclub on Tuesday 9 June will read Mannix by Brenda Niall
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/history-bookclub-the-maddest-place-on-earth/
LOCATION:RHSV\, Gordon Moffatt Room\, 239 A'Beckett St\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:What's On
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DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200512T193000
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SUMMARY:Victoria's Native Vegetation: History\, Heritage\, Politics
DESCRIPTION:Please contact the organiser before attending this event in case it has been cancelled. \nIn recognition of 2020 as the UN International Year of Plant Health\, this History Council of Victoria seminar will illuminate the challenging and contested past\, present and future of Victoria’s native vegetation. \n  \nThis is a free event however bookings should be made through the HCV website. \nProfessional historian Dr Gary Presland\, author of many books about Victoria’s natural and human heritage (including Understanding our natural world: the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria 1880-2015) will speak about the importance of native vegetation in understanding past human activity. \nProfessor Mike Clarke from the Centre for Future Landscapes at La Trobe University will consider the place of fire in the history of Victoria’s vegetation: ‘The Bush will be OK\, it’s evolved to cope with fire…hasn’t it?’. \nDr Lilian Pearce\, a research fellow on the ARC-funded project Owning nature: mapping the contested country of private protected areas and a member of the Landscape Reference Group with the National Trust of Australia (Victoria)\, will consider the changing role of history in contemporary environmental management activities. \nThis seminar contributes to the 2020 Australian Heritage Festival for which the theme is ‘Our Heritage for the Future’. The discussion will be chaired by Professor Alistair Thomson of Monash University.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/victorias-native-vegetation-history-heritage-politics/
LOCATION:Old Treasury Building\, 20 Spring St\, East Melbourne\, VIC\, 3002\, Australia
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200513
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200514
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SUMMARY:TAKE A WALK
DESCRIPTION:If you are close to the city why not do a historical walk in the Flagstaff area? \nWe have two self-guided walks on our website as podcasts. The first walk includes The Gill\, QVM\, St James Old Cathedral and Flagstaff Gardens \nThe second walk includes the block around the RHSV: La Trobe\, Elizabeth\, William and Lonsdale Streets. \nWalking Tour Podcasts
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/take-a-walk/
LOCATION:VIC
CATEGORIES:What's On
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SUMMARY:LISTEN TO A PODCAST
DESCRIPTION:We have an extraordinary library of lectures given at the RHSV over many years available on our website. Please download and indulge yourself. \nThere are lectures and talks by Gary Presland\, Simon Ambrose\, Robyn Annear\, Rozzi Bazzani\, Richard Broome\, Judith Brett\, Margaret Bowman\, Marilyn Bowler\, Judith Buckrich\, John Burch and many many more \nImage: Gary Presland \nThis is the link: https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/resources/lecture-podcasts/ \n  \n 
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/listen-to-a-podcast/
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CATEGORIES:What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200514T171500
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200514T190000
DTSTAMP:20260421T204430
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SUMMARY:Returning our Ancestors
DESCRIPTION:Bookings for this event have been cancelled at the current time due to the ongoing restrictions of COVID-19. We may be rescheduling later in the year. We will keep our members informed as the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds. \nRepatriation of Aboriginal Ancestral Remains is guided by a commitment to return the Ancestors to rest on Country by all involved. \n\nIn this partnership event between the Royal Historical Society of Victoria and the Victorian Aboriginal Heritage Council we will be screening the documentary\, Returning Our Ancestors\, which will be followed by a discussion with Bonnie Chew\, Councillor of the Victorian Aboriginal Heritage Council and our President\, Richard Broome. \n\n\n\n\n\n“As part of the process of colonisation\, Aboriginal peoples’ burial places were desecrated in the name of curiosity\, science and research. Aboriginal Ancestors were stolen from their land where they had been placed with care and ceremony\, to be housed in metal boxes as specimens or ornaments of curiosity by individuals\, families and institutions. \nThe 1980’s saw Aboriginal Ancestors start to return to rest on Country. But the journey is by no means complete and there are many more of our Ancestors still to come home. We can all walk together and help in this essential work.” \nReturning our Ancestors is a documentary\, four years in the making\, which shares some of this difficult but healing journey. Produced by the Victorian Aboriginal Heritage Council\, with the contribution of stories from Victorian Traditional Owners and others. Returning our Ancestors is unlike any film on this topic: current\, relevant\, intimate\, emotional and extraordinary. It is a call to action\, to help Traditional Owners return their Ancestors to Country. The project raises awareness of the sensitivities around connection to Country\, the importance of reporting and returning Ancestors and the reasons Ancestors are not in the custodianship of their Traditional Owners. \nReturning our Ancestors shows us what we can do as a Victorian community to work together for the rightful and respectful return and protection of Aboriginal Ancestors\, now and into the future. \nAs with all RHSV events\, we provide refreshments from 5:15pm till just before 6pm when we move upstairs for the screening and conversation.  \n\nBonnie Chew is a proud Wadawurrung (Wathaurung) woman with many years’ experience in Aboriginal Cultural Heritage and Education. \nBonnie regularly gives lectures promoting cultural heritage management and has sound knowledge of the Aboriginal Heritage Act 2006. In April 2012\, she had the opportunity to be a representative for Ballarat at the World Historical Cities Conference in Vietnam\, where she was able to share her knowledge and network with people of many other nations on a range of heritage issues. \nRecently\, Bonnie held the role of Cultural Heritage Coordinator for a Registered Aboriginal Party (Wathaurung Aboriginal Corporation). In that role\, Bonnie worked closely with the community\, archaeologists\, developers\, anthropologists\, ecologists and government authorities\, on approximately 126 projects to achieve the best outcomes regarding the preservation of cultural heritage on her traditional Country. \nRichard Broome is one of Australia’s leading historians. While he has written on a wide range of subjects\, ‘it is his work on Indigenous history with its emphasis on Aboriginal agency and capacity for negotiation and self-empowerment that has been most influential. His book Aboriginal Australians: A History Since 1788\, first published in 1982\, is now in its 5th fully revised edition and has sold over 60\,000 copies in that time. It is the most widely read work in this field. He has also written Aboriginal Victorians: A History since 1800\, published in 2005 and the most comprehensive account available of Aboriginal history since white settlement in this state. \nHis history of the Victorian Aborigines Advancement League\, Fighting Hard\, was published in 2015 to document the fight against policies of assimilation and the struggle for civil rights. In the clarity and accessibility of his writing\, his great capacity for story-telling and his meticulous research\, Richard has opened up the history of Aboriginal Australians to a much wider public readership than academic historians.’ \n\nOur affiliated historical societies are encouraged to host their own screenings of this important documentary\, Returning our Ancestors\, for their members and friends. It is\, no doubt\, very pertinent to some historical societies which hold Ancestral Remains in their collections.  \nThe Victorian Aboriginal Heritage Council wants as many Victorians to see the documentary as possible so they can be aware of the issues and challenges the documentary raises. The film is relevant to your communities\, to people in your area\, to the Traditional Owners of Country in your region and should be seen\, discussed and shared as widely as possible so action can be taken. The invitation is for you to run an event\, and for Victorian Aboriginal Heritage Council to support it\, but also to keep the call to action ‘alive’ through other events and communications you undertake during 2020 and beyond. The call to action and communication about the message should exist and grow beyond one event or one screening of the documentary.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/returning-our-ancestors/
LOCATION:RHSV ZOOM by Invitation\, Australia
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200526T100000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200526T150000
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SUMMARY:AMaGA Workshop: Victorian Collections
DESCRIPTION:Please contact the organiser before attending this event in case it has been cancelled. \nThis hands-on workshop will guide you through the process of cataloguing on the Victorian Collections system and cover basic principles of collection management\, object handling and digitisation. \nMembers $10\nNon-members $20
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/amaga-workshop-victorian-collections/
LOCATION:Melbourne Museum\, 11 Nicholson St\, Carlton\, VIC\, 3053\, Australia
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ORGANIZER;CN="AMaGA":MAILTO:info@amagavic.org.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200526T170000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200526T180000
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SUMMARY:RHSV AGM\, connecting through ZOOM
DESCRIPTION:Sadly\, our 2020 Weston Bate Oration has been cancelled. However the AGM will be going ahead\, at 5pm on 26 May\, through ZOOM.  There is a link below to enable you to join our AGM through the web (either video or audio) and participate\, vote\, ask questions of the Council etc.\nMost importantly at this AGM will be an opportunity to elect Councillors and receive expressions of interest to be a member of the History Victoria Support Group. As well as electing any members who have been nominated for election as Fellows and to announce recipients of Distinguished Service Award\, Awards of Merit and the Barbara Nixon Volunteer Award. \nFinancial reports will be sent out 2 weeks before the meeting and shortly after we’ll send the full Annual Report. \nIf you require any nomination forms or further information please contact Rosemary Cameron / executive.officer@historyvictoria.org.au / 03 9326 9288 \nTime: May 26\, 2020 17:00 Melbourne \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81846410045?pwd=SVAwNWR0SFFpMGt0bHBqdlJ6WDBlUT09 \nMeeting ID: 818 4641 0045\nPassword: 507624 \n  \nRHSV Annual General Meeting \n110th ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING \nAGENDA \nTuesday 26 May at 5:00pm \nTo be held as an online live meeting with attendance by Zoom                                                                                     \n\nAttendance and apologies\nTo confirm the minutes of the 109th Annual General Meeting and the Special General Meeting held in May 2019.\nTo receive the Annual Report for the year ended 31 December 2019.\nTo receive and consider the Financial Statement for the year ended 31 December 2019\nTo appoint the Auditor for 2020.\nTo elect Office-Bearers (Vice President and Treasurer) and Members of Council.\nTo receive expressions of interest for History Victoria Support Group.\nTo elect any member or members who have been nominated for election as Fellows.\nTo announce recipients of Distinguished Service Award\, Awards of Merit and the Barbara Nixon Volunteer Award.\nTo transact any business of which notice has been given in accordance with the rules the Society.\n\nNotice to members \n\nSix ordinary positions on Council will be open for re-election/election\, three as the two-year terms have been completed and three owing to resignations in 2019.\nTwo office-holder positions will be open for election as the two-year terms are completed: Vice President (currently Elisabeth Jackson) and Treasurer (currently Daniel Clements).\n\nZOOM Instructions                Join Zoom Meeting: \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81846410045?pwd=SVAwNWR0SFFpMGt0bHBqdlJ6WDBlUT09 \nMeeting ID: 818 4641 0045                           Password: 507624 \nIf you are new to ZOOM you might want to read the following instructions \nhttps://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362193-How-Do-I-Join-A-Meeting- \nhttps://medium.com/@AshleyGraf101/a-beginners-guide-to-zoom-the-newest-social-network-7b8895052c8f \n  \nDOCUMENTATION TO ACCOMPANY 2020 AGM \nThe minutes of the AGM held in 2019 can be read here. \nAnd the minutes of the SGM held on the same night as our AGM in May 2019 can be read / downloaded here. \nThe full Annual Report for 2019 can be read / downloaded here. \nThe Financial Reports for the RHSV 2020 can be read here. \nThe 2020 Audit Report can be read here. \nThe 2020 AGM’s Agenda can be read / downloaded here. \nAn expression of interest form to join the History Victoria Support Group can be downloaded here. \nIf you wish to nominate for Council you should complete the attached form and return it to the RHSV by 19 May 2020. \nAnd if you’d like someone else to be your proxy at the AGM you should complete this form and return it to the RHSV.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/agm-2020-weston-bate-oration/
LOCATION:RHSV ZOOM by Invitation\, Australia
CATEGORIES:What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200529T180000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20200529T213000
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SUMMARY:Trivia-au-go-go
DESCRIPTION:This event has been cancelled for the forseeable future due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Hopefully it will be rescheduled later in the year. \nAndrew Lemon is once again putting us to the test. Join us for some hysterical historical trivia. Time to get competitive and pit yourself against all the other history buffs at the RHSV’s world-famous Trivia-au-go-go. \nPut together a table of friends or come along by yourself and join an RHSV table. \nThere are some great prizes and you will be fundraising for the RHSV at the same time. \nIt is a cash bar but you are more than welcome to bring your own food. \nThis event will be held in our Gallery Downstairs which is wheelchair accessible. \nA table will hold 6 – 8. \nTable members can book individually – you do not have to book a table all at once. During the booking process you’ll be asked which table you want to join so\, at that point\, just give us an individual’s name or organisation (or table name if you have already dreamt one up). \n 
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/trivia-au-go-go-2/
LOCATION:RHSV\, Gallery Downstairs\, 239 A'Beckett Street\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200530
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200531
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SUMMARY:Be a virtual explorer with Eltham District Historical Society
DESCRIPTION:Eltham & District’s latest Touchstone eBulletin has arrived and\, as always\, is full of good ideas and links to “How to” articles. \nWe have received some interesting stories about living with COVID-19 for our collection. Thank\nyou to the members who organised these. You are encouraged to keep a journal about your day\nto day experiences\, which can be the basis for a future written or oral history piece. Yarra Plenty\nRegional Library has some helpful information. Recording these times \n• State Library Victoria has recently launched their Memory Bank Project to archive what everyday\nlife in Victoria is actually like now\, during this time of collective isolation. Memory Bank is a longterm\ncollecting project that invites you to share your everyday observations of pivotal moments\nin time. Extraordinary moments\, and ordinary ones too\, can easily be lost in the day’s blur or\nforgotten in a week’s time. More information and suggestions \n• Nillumbik U3A is providing a weekly online newsletter full of news\, fun\, stories and competitions:\nThey also have a number of online videos about activities you may wish to investigate \n• In our first edition we suggested that now was a good time to go through your family photos.\nThe National Archives of Australia has some good advice on how to look after your family archive \n• Yarra Plenty Regional Library is extending their book valet service to include movies and TV\nshows. A recommended reading list will be sent to you\, curated by librarians. The library is also\nco-ordinating a project with the City of Banyule\, asking crafters to knit squares for a community\nblanket \n• Our Street Library remains open so if you are out walking\, please drop in at the Local History\nCentre\, 728 Main Road\, Eltham. \n• Happy Mother’s Day to our mothers for Sunday May 10th. In 1968 The Australian Women’s\nWeekly asked readers to send in responses to “Which gift pleased you most”. The resulting\narticle includes many ideas (or adaptions of)\, which are relevant today. \nAre you or your family connected to Eltham District? Whilst COVID19 keeps us at home you can be a virtual explorer of Eltham and its history. \n• Eltham District Historical Society’s Victorian Collection pages \nHere you can explore over 10\,000 catalogued items\, the majority of which are images\, there due to\nthe activities of our dedicated Collections Team who continue to work behind the scenes. \n• You can visit our website\nHere you can read various stories and also catch up on past newsletters. \n• You can visit our Facebook pages\nHere you can explore a range of local history stories and information\, including Throwback\nThursday and On This Day features. \n• You can visit the Wikinorthia website\nHere you can see an extensive range of local history stories about the northern suburbs. \n\nDuring this down time perhaps consider writing your memories and stories of living and working\nin Eltham and District for our archives.\nYou could go through your photos and share your memories with family members. Consider\ndonating archives\, including photos relating to Eltham and District to EDHS. We can also arrange\nto digitise these.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/be-a-virtual-explorer-with-eltham-district-historical-society/
LOCATION:VIC
CATEGORIES:Victorian History Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Eltham District Historical Society":MAILTO:edhsoffice@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:St Kilda Historical Society activities
DESCRIPTION:St Kilda Historical Society are not taking COVID19 lying down. They are starting some on-line Zoom sessions on researching your family directed to those living in the St Kilda area where SKHS has the massive benefit of the Vardy Maps. \nThey are also going to continue\, over winter\, their Fireside chats with some of key St Kilda historians. They also have some great podcasts on their website (under Publications) and some great DIY Walk Notes (under News & Events). \n\nTo celebrate its 50th anniversary\, the St Kilda Historical Society is holding a short story competition. You may write on any theme\, in any genre and in any time period\, providing that the story is inspired by or set in St Kilda.  There are two categories – open and junior. So\, start writing and make sure your entry is in by 7 August\, 2020. \n\nKeep an eye out on their website for these events.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/st-kilda-historical-society-activities/
LOCATION:VIC
CATEGORIES:Victorian History Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="St Kilda Historical Society":MAILTO:info@stkildahistory.org.au
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SUMMARY:Walking Port Melbourne
DESCRIPTION:There are many ways\, real and virtual\, to reflect on Anzac Day in Port Melbourne. \n\nExplore our Port Melbourne First World War Centenary site. Find out who enlisted from any Port street by typing the name of the street in the search box\, or read the interesting research under the stories tab.\nUse the City of Port Phillip’s On the Home Front self guided walking tour to visit the many sites of significance in Port Melbourne and surrounds from Princes Pier to the Gallipoli Lemnos Memorial.\n\nThrough focusing on just one street\, Heath St\, Christine Griffiths and Barb Mullen have given a deep insight on the impact of the war on one Port Melbourne street.  Their Heath St Anzac Day booklet can be accessed here. \nThe War Memorial around which we usually gather wasn’t Port Melbourne’s first war memorial. That distinction goes to the Women’s Welcome Home Band Rotunda\, gifted by the women welcomers to the City of Port Melbourne on 6 November 1918. Read more about the Rotunda here.  \nFollowing an energetic campaign and fundraising\, the Port Melbourne Council made the Excelsior Hall (cnr Bridge\, Princes and Station Sts) available as a gathering place for returned soldiers and sailors in 1919. The full story is here. \nThe siting and form of a fitting war memorial was the subject of debate over many years. Cr Crichton favoured the site outside the Fountain Inn (now the Cornerstone) whereas Cr Sinclair thought the newly reclaimed Edwards Park would be more suitable. In the end\, the pull of locating the Memorial within sight of the piers from which the troops embarked was agreed. \nIn an ironic twist\, the only Port Melbourne councillor to have a bust erected in his honour\, Cr Walter\, argued that Council funds should be used to support the more pressing needs of the living than a memorial. His view did not prevail. \nThe memorial appears to have been first used for a service in 1928. Read the foundation story of the Port Melbourne War Memorial here.\n 
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/walking-port-melbourne/
LOCATION:Port Melbourne\, Port Melbourne\, VIC\, 3207\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Victorian History Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Port Melbourne Historical & Preservation Society":MAILTO:secretary@pmhps.org.au
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