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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: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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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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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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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/
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20210422T110000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20210427T064500
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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
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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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