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SUMMARY:Well Built: Simmie & Co Master Builders 1924 – 1978
DESCRIPTION:Simmie & Co was a prominent building company in Melbourne (1924-1978) and in Canberra (1926-1969).  In Melbourne the company was highly successful and built many iconic buildings\, churches\, monasteries\, schools\, housing\, factories\, defence works\, the Shrine forecourt (1939-45)\, offices and theatres including some heritage-listed constructions (one designed by Robin Boyd). \nIn Canberra\, Simmie & Co was responsible for building a wide range of iconic constructions\, including the first Northbourne Avenue shops on London Circuit\, Albert Hall\, the Australian War Memorial\, St Andrews Cathedral\, Institute of Anatomy (now the Film and Sound Archives)\, US Embassy\, several other embassies\, R G Menzies Library\, a range of housing from heritage listed homes in Forrest to worker’s cottages in Narrabundah\, schools\, halls\, theatres and commercial sites. \nThe founders were three Victorian brothers\, all born in the last decade of the nineteenth century and all worked at the Sunshine Harvester factory before World War One – William\, Jock & George. All were World War One veterans (two were Gallipoli veterans). All were wounded and survived. Two were closely involved with the Master Builders Association in Melbourne. \nDiscover their story of a pioneering building company of the early to mid-twentieth century\, of World War One veterans\, of courage and a willingness to take a risk\, of the beginning of the capital city of Australia and the workers\, the unsung heroes\, who made it all happen. \nABOUT THE R J SIMMIE COLLECTION \nThe R J Simmie Collection has been put together over many years by Dr Richard Simmie\, a grandson of Jock Simmie\, one of the principals of Simmie & Co.  The Collection contains records of the Simmie family connected to Simmie & Co and also historic farm Harpsdale. These comprise an extensive collection of photographs\, construction and farm business records\, artefacts and ephemera\, even historic farm machinery.  The R J Simmie Collection is the major sponsor for this exhibition\, both in Melbourne and Canberra. \nABOUT THE CURATOR AND AUTHOR \nDr Andrew Kilsby\, is an independent historian (www.connect-history.com)\, and published author. He holds a PhD in history from UNSW. Dr Kilsby has a background in military and diplomatic service\, public relations and corporate communications both in Australia and in Asia-Pacific.  Recent publications include The Big Garage: 65 Years of Motoring History;  The Case of Eichengruen-Edwards and Continental Tyres (Commendation Community History Awards 2019); The Forgotten Cruiser: HMAS Melbourne I\, 1913-1928; The Riflemen: A History of the NRAA 1888-1988 and as co-author\, A Reputable Set of Men: The Sandringham Club 1913-2013 and Sigma Pharmaceuticals 1912-2012. His new publication Family Business: The Simmies of Simmie & Co and Harpsdale\, will be launched at the exhibition opening.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/well-built-simmie-co-master-builders-1924-1978/
LOCATION:RHSV Gallery Downstairs\, 239 A'Beckett St\, Melbourne\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Altona Homestead Devonshire Tea
DESCRIPTION:The Altona-Laverton Historical Society members and volunteers invite you to drop into the Altona Homestead on the first Sunday of the Month (February to December) to enjoy a serve of our famous Devonshire Tea or Cream Tea or Cornish Tea\, anyway you look at them they are delicious. \nOur Devonshire tea comes with two freshly made scones\, home-made mixed berry jam\, whipped cream and your choice of a pot of coffee or a pot of tea. We also have fresh lemonade available (and hot chocolate in winter). All in the surrounds of the heritage Altona Homestead building within the beautiful Logan Reserve\, Altona \n\n\nThe Altona Homestead provides visitors of all ages the opportunity to take a step back to the time of our early settlers to the region of Altona. Located overlooking the tranquil Logan Reserve in close proximity to the Altona foreshore\, the homestead is a unique and treasured part of Altona’s heritage. On display are objects\, pictures\, paintings and collections that reflect everyday life from 1840 through to the mid 1900s. The property has been used by a number of families as a residence\, was used as holiday accommodation\, was the council office and meeting place for the Altona Shire before Altona gained city status and moved to new chambers\, and was used by a number of community organisations as well as Altona Historical Society. \nRestoration works commenced in 1988 and through careful planning and funding provided by the then Altona City Council\, ensuring preservation of the homestead for the people of Altona and visitors to enjoy and learn about Altona’s\, and the western suburb’s\, past.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/altona-homestead-devonshire-tea/2023-06-04/
LOCATION:Altona Homestead\, 128 Queen Street\, Altona\, Victoria\, 3018\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Victorian History Events
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SUMMARY:Book launch at Elwood: Enchanted Beneath the Bluff
DESCRIPTION:Authors Heather Arnold and Isaac Hermann invite you to the launch of their book\, Enchanted Beneath the Bluff\, Agnes & Geraldine’s Pursuit\nof Elwood’s Elusive Black Diamonds. \nWithin a place of love\, sorrow and salvation\, where Elwood’s Swamp met St. Kilda’s Red Bluff\, two ardent women – Agnes Simmons and Geraldine Minet – with their Victorian Coal Mining Company\, challenged providence and geology.In the days of Suffrage and Spiritualism\, these two daring Theosophists sought to bring prosperity to Colonial Victoria of the 1890s in the midst of the Depression. Their engine\, ‘Helena’ was fired up to bore deeper for their black diamonds\, than any other coal exploration in the world! Thousands of feet of drilling were shrouded in secrecy and suspicion. Their spirit world’s prophecies plummeted to earth\, revealing through cold hard facts and bitter disappointment that the only flawless diamonds of their quest lay within their own altruism. It happened here\, by Typhus Road shadowed by Slaughter Yard Creek on its swamp bound journey to the restless sea? \n\n\n\n\nElwood local historian and author\, Isaac Hermann has frequented Point Ormond for near to six decades savoring its silence\, taking in its views and more recently giving voice to its rich and diverse stories. Author of Kingsley\, Our House & Home\, A History of the Elwood and St Kilda Neighbourhood Learning Centre\, and A Labour of Love\, the Public Works of Carlo Catani\, Victoria 1876 -1918. \nHeather is a Local Historian\, President of the Koo Wee Rup Swamp Historical Society and Secretary of the South Eastern Historical Association. A Librarian for over 40 years and the Local History Librarian at Casey Cardinia Libraries from 2005 – 2021\, Heather is passionate about local history and is the author of three blogs – Koo Wee Rup Swamp History\, Victoria’s Past: Rescued and Retold\, and Carlo Catani\, a tribute to Victoria’s Engineer-in-Chief. \n\n\n\n\nBookings: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/enchanted-beneath-the-bluff-book-launch-tickets-622139414737\n\nBook signing and sales from 2pm\, launch at 3pm and tea and coffee provided.\nSome on-site parking.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/book-launch-at-elwood-enchanted-beneath-the-bluff/
LOCATION:Elwood Bowls Club\, 170 Glenhuntly Road\, Brighton\, VIC\, 3186\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Victorian History Events
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SUMMARY:‘Springtime for hymn singing: the growth of congregational singing in the 19th Century’
DESCRIPTION:Rev. Dr. D’Arcy Wood will explore a phenomenon that began with the large open-air rallies held by the Wesley brothers in the mid-18th century and developed into the stirring tunes and expressions of devotion that became the bedrock of congregational singing in the nineteenth century. Here is your opportunity to sing along with a guest choir to the accompaniment of pianist Bruce Macrae. \nVenue: Auburn Uniting Church\, 81 Oxley Road\, Hawthorn. You can attend in person or by Zoom. Free to all. Non-members welcome. Please register your interest with Ken Barelli at ken.barelli@bigpond.com to receive the Zoom link.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/springtime-for-hymn-singing-the-growth-of-congregational-singing-in-the-19th-century/
LOCATION:Auburn Uniting Church\, 81 Oxley Road\, Hawthorn\, VIC\, 3132\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Victorian History Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20230605T120000
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SUMMARY:MARKETING FORUMS
DESCRIPTION:Christina Browning\, the RHSV Marketing Officer\, leads these forums which each month tackle a different aspect of marketing for historical societies – they tend to concentrate on social media as it is very available and is free to use\, however\, Christina will tackle any aspect of marketing which you want to raise. Christina will prepare a topic each month and she welcomes questions and feedback and suggestions for future topics – these sessions are relaxed and interactive. Bring your queries / issues etc. The forums are free and delivered via Zoom. There are always extra documents and links that are sent to you after each forum and it is for that reason we ask attendees to register – otherwise we can’t contact you. \nThe same Zoom log-in is used for all 1o forums across 2023 \n\nMon 5 Jun 2023\, 12noon – 1pm AEST (Mon 12 is a public holiday)\nMon 10 Jul 2023\, 12noon – 1pm AEST\nMon 14 Aug 2023\, 12noon – 1pm AEST\nMon 11 Sep 2023\, 12noon – 1pm AEST\nMon 9 Oct 2023\, 12noon – 1pm AEDT\nMon 13 Nov 2023\, 12noon – 1pm AEDT\n\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82571257942?pwd=ZVNLbmFTaUJNbFNGdDZ5YnQ5OCtPZz09 \nMeeting ID: 825 7125 7942\nPasscode: 011224
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/marketing-forums-2023-06-12/
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20230606T180000
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SUMMARY:‘Love of a crowd\, a band\, and “a gardens’’’: Music\, Recreation\, and Gardens at Nineteenth-Century International Exhibitions
DESCRIPTION:Australian Garden History Society presents \n‘Love of a crowd\, a band\, and “a gardens’’’: Music\, Recreation\, and Gardens at Nineteenth-Century International Exhibitions \nWinter online lecture by Sarah Kirby \nInternational exhibitions were some of the most significant cultural events of the nineteenth century\, drawing together displays from across the world that (supposedly) demonstrated the breadth of human achievement. These vast events\, held in enormous buildings and filled with objects to dazzle the spectator had\, from their inception\, been designed to combine education\, entertainment\, and spectacle. While their educational aspects generally remained confined to the inside of the buildings\, by the 1880s the gardens that surrounded them had become hives of entertainment. These outdoor spaces inherited the traditions of earlier European ‘pleasure gardens’\, combining fountains\, walkways\, grottos\, and spectacular lighting effects with a wide variety of refreshments and carnival amusements\, including music. These gardens became\, for many\, the main drawcard of the exhibitions; as George Bernard Shaw declared in 1885\, the success of International Exhibitions overall lay in the public’s ‘love of a crowd\, a band\, and “a gardens”’. \nThis talk explores the role of music and gardens in the experience of nineteenth-century international exhibitions\, considering questions of passive and active experience\, ‘rational recreation’ and ideas of public health and wellbeing\, and popular vs. ‘high art’ music and entertainment. While it explores many exhibitions and their gardens across the British Empire\, its particular focus is on the exhibitions held in Melbourne in 1880 and 1888\, and the music heard in the Carlton Gardens that surround the Royal Exhibition Building. \nSarah Kirby is a musicologist and cultural historian\, specialising in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century Australian and British music history. She is a recent doctoral graduate of the University of Melbourne\, where her thesis explored music at international exhibitions in the British Empire. She is currently working as the Grainger Fellow at the University of Melbourne’s Grainger Museum. Sarah has published widely on music in Britain and Australia\, colonialism\, women in music\, and music in museums\, and her first monograph\, ‘Exhibitions\, Music and the British Empire’\, is out now with Boydell & Brewer. She lectures in undergraduate music history at the Melbourne Conservatorium and at the University of New England\, is associated editor of the journal ‘Musicology Australia’\, and was the 2022 Nancy Keesing Fellow at the State Library of NSW. \n  \nDATE:              Tuesday 6 June 2023\nTIME:               6.00 start – log in from 5.45\nLOCATION      A Zoom link will be provided with reminder email before the session.\nCOST:              $10 members AGHS\, $10 Friends RBG\, $15 non-members \nBOOKINGS:     https://www.trybooking.com/CHCCX\nENQUIRIES:     LYNDA ENTWISLE – Mobile: 0466 925 370
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/love-of-a-crowd-a-band-and-a-gardens-music-recreation-and-gardens-at-nineteenth-century-international-exhibitions/
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CATEGORIES:Victorian History Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20230608T173000
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SUMMARY:The Wilson History Oration INUNDATED: FLOODS\, HISTORY AND HIGH WATER An oration by Dr Margaret Cook
DESCRIPTION:Join the Professional Historians Association to hear eminent environmental historian Dr Margaret Cook at the second annual Wilson History Oration\, environmental historian\, Dr Margaret Cook will explore the ways history can engage with the public\, the media\, other professions and policy makers. In discussing her work on floods\, she will highlight how her\nrole and training as a public historian shapes her scholarship and historical practice. Join us as we consider these themes during one of our greatest crises in history: the climate emergency. \nFREE EVENT ONLINE VIA ZOOM \nFor bookings and Zoom link: Professional Historians Association (Victoria and Tasmania) – Wilson History Oration: ‘Inundated’ by Dr Margaret Cook (wildapricot.org) \nMore info:\nhistorians.org.au/wilson-history-oration \n 
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/the-wilson-history-oration-inundated-floods-history-and-high-water-an-oration-by-dr-margaret-cook/
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CATEGORIES:Victorian History Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20230613T173000
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SUMMARY:Book launch: Failed Ambitions Kew Cottages and Changing Ideas of Intellectual Disabilities
DESCRIPTION:La Trobe University and  \nthe Royal Historical Society of Victoria invite you to the launch of  \n \nwritten by Lee-Ann Monk and David Henderson \nWith Christine Bigby\, Richard Broome and Katie Holmes \nPublished by Monash University Publishing \n  \nto be launched by Dr Colleen Pearce \nThe Public Advocate\, Victoria \nA gripping history\, both topical and timely \nThe history of Melbourne’s Kew Children’s Cottages (1887–2008) is the challenging story of an institution that failed its residents – and it is vividly relevant to today\, when the rights of people with disabilities are the subject of a royal commission. \nThose with an intellectual disability were historically the most vulnerable in our society and the least protected. Governments continually failed them by underdelivering on ambitious promises of reform. Failed Ambitions traces the development of Kew Cottages and the broader themes it gives rise to\, including changing social ideas about intellectual disability. Australia saw a shift from a belief that those with intellectual disabilities were educatable to a view\, which took hold in the 1920s\, that the ‘feebleminded’ were unreclaimable and a menace to society. It took until the 1980s to formally recognise the rights of disabled peoples\, and demanded dismantling institutions like Kew and associated ideas of disability. \nThroughout Kew Cottages’ history\, a cohort of journalists\, parents\, activists and residents fought for and finally gained greater rights and respect. This is a moving and powerful story that deserves to be read by all policymakers so we can avoid repeating the mistakes of the past. \nThe RHSV Gallery Downstairs is a fully-accessible venue.  \n          
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/book-launch-failed-ambitions-kew-cottages-and-changing-ideas-of-intellectual-disabilities/
LOCATION:RHSV Gallery Downstairs\, 239 A'Beckett St\, Melbourne\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20230615T110000
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SUMMARY:CATALOGUING CLINICS 2023
DESCRIPTION:Join Jillian Hiscock\, the RHSV Collections Manager\, each month is this informative and easy-going Zoom forum on all aspects of cataloguing collections for historical societies. Jillian has a different topic each month and is happy to be guided by those who attend as to what they would like covered in upcoming clinics. This is an interactive space where questions are encouraged. The RHSV does not endorse any particular cataloguing software – we believe it is horses for courses – and Jillian will talk about issues that impact on cataloguing whether you are using cataloguing cards or software. \nThe one-hour clinics are free and the Zoom log-in below is used every month in 2023\, however\, we do ask you to register each month as this enables Jillian to send you extra material / links etc after each session. \nThe remaining Cataloguing Clinics 2023 will be held at \n\nThu 15 Jun 11am – 12noon (AEST)\nThu 20 Jul 11am – 12noon (AEST)\nThu 17 Aug 11am – 12noon (AEST)\nThu 21 Sep 11am – 12noon (AEST)\nThu 19 Oct 11am – 12noon (AEDT)\nThu 16 Nov 11am – 12noon (AEDT)\n\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86065204468?pwd=UWNVVkhTanplK3Z6b20zSDVhYTE2Zz09 \nMeeting ID: 860 6520 4468\nPasscode: 549707 \nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nMonthly: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/tZItceyqrj8uHNyeZRXkEGbD7ZUBvzw25bH8/ics?icsToken=98tyKuGurj0vGNSRtB-PRpwAAo_oZ-rziClbgo1EmSXXOyt2RQHSYdh3EKRlB4qF \n 
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/cataloguing-clinics-2023-2023-03-16-2023-04-20/
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SUMMARY:Sludge:  Water Supply and Pollution in the Gold Rush
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to welcome distinguished Professor of Archaeology\, Susan Lawrence\, to deliver this co-presentation between Engineering Heritage Victoria and the RHSV.  \nThis is a fascinating examination of how water supply led to a troubling legacy of the gold rush. \nEveryone knows gold made Victoria rich. But did you know that gold mining was disastrous for the land\, engulfing it in floods of sand\, gravel and silt that gushed out of the mines? \nOr that this environmental devastation still affects our rivers and floodplains? \nOr that the problem had its origins in the sophisticated water supply systems built for the mines? \nVictorians had a name for the mining waste: ‘sludge’. Sludge submerged Victoria’s best grapevines near Bendigo\, filled Laanecoorie Reservoir on the Loddon River and flowed down from Beechworth over thousands of hectares of rich agricultural land. Children and animals drowned in sludge lakes. The traditional country of many indigenous peoples was smothered. Mining effluent contaminated three-quarters of Victoria’s creeks and rivers. \nSludge is the compelling story of the forgotten filth that plagued nineteenth-century Victoria. It exposes the big dirty secret of Victoria’s mining history – the way it transformed the state’s water and land\, and how the battle against sludge helped lay the ground for the modern environmental movement. \nSusan Lawrence is acting Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of the Inland and a Professor in the Department of Archaeology and History at La Trobe University and has spent thirty years studying the goldfields. In 2019\, with Peter Davies\, she published “Sludge: Disaster on Victoria’s Goldfields”\, that was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. Her expertise is in the physical evidence of the recent human past and she is internationally recognised for her research on mining\, rivers\, and British colonisation. \nIn her work Susan emphasises the importance of collaborative relationships and inter-disciplinary approaches\, and she works with environmental scientists\, ecologists\, visual artists\, heritage professionals\, historians\, Aboriginal Studies scholars and Traditional Owners. For the past decade Susan’s work has focused on long-term human interaction with the Victorian environment. \nShe is currently lead Chief Investigator of the ARC funded Discovery Project ‘Rivers of Gold: the Legacy of Historical Gold Mining for Victoria’s Rivers’ <https://rivers-of-gold.com> and the ARC funded Special Research Initiative ‘Fire\, Flood and Food: People and Landscape Change in Northern Victoria’. \nSusan is also working with Djaara women on the co-designed “Yam Paddock Project”\, a philanthropically-funded program to use cultural fire and digging sticks to return yams and other traditional foods to Country in central Victoria. Susan’s research has also actively addressed the archaeology of gender\, urban development\, extractive industries and material culture studies \n  \nLike most of our events\, this event is hybrid – offered in person at the Drill Hall\, 239 A’Beckett St\, Melbourne 3000 or via ZOOM.  \nFor those attending in person\, refreshments are served between 5:30pm and 6pm when the lecture starts. The Zoom session will open at 6pm. Zoom log-in details are sent 24 hours prior to the event.  \nMembers discount is available to both members of the RHSV and members of Engineering Heritage Victoria. 
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/sludge-water-supply-and-pollution-in-the-gold-rush/
LOCATION:RHSV Gallery Downstairs\, 239 A'Beckett St\, Melbourne\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20230624T140000
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SUMMARY:Guided walking tour along Chapel Street
DESCRIPTION:North and West Melbourne have streets that are made for walking; During the Covid pandemic as we walked the streets for the good of our health (and the health of our dogs) many of us came to a fresh appreciation of the life around us. \nWe became familiar with the diversity of building shapes and sizes and the influence of time on our neighbourhoods; Our HHP members tell us\, they are now wanting to know more. \nThis event a walk in Capel Street with Lawrence Angwin is a response to that wish. Come and take the opportunity learn about a particular street and see how it differs from or is familiar to others that you know. \n    Become a member of HHP\,  Find our books\, Search historic local family names on our local streets index    on our website.\n    Discover more about the Capel Street story on melbournestreets.com.au.\n    Want to help? Volunteer to transcribe Sands & McDougall records\, contact us today. \nWalking tour time: June 24th\, 2pm starting near corner of Capel and Dudley Street\, West Melbourne \nParticipants: strictly limited. Bookings on Eventbrite required. \nHHP requires all participants to be vaccinated (at least three doses) against COVID-19 or have a medical exception. Participants who do not meet these vaccination requirements will not be permitted to attend this event. Contact Hotham History Project via the website or info@hothamhistory.org.au
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/guided-walking-tour-along-chapel-street/
LOCATION:Victoria
CATEGORIES:Victorian History Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Hotham History Project Inc.":MAILTO:info@hothamhistory.org.au
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SUMMARY:WRITING HISTORY GROUP
DESCRIPTION:Dr Cheryl Griffin leads this group which has been meeting since 2020. \nThis group is for people who are tackling writing a history project or two and want a sounding board / source of information / guidance and HELP! Each month from February to November Cheryl convenes the group via Zoom for 90 minutes and they will attack a particular aspect of writing history and also be a sounding board for members problems / queries. Cheryl also has guest writers drop in to talk about their work and how they’ve dealt with thorny issues. \nThis writing group has a cap on the numbers who can join as we don’t want it to get too unwieldy where questions can’t be answered nor feedback given. Ongoing attendance is encouraged. The group dynamic doesn’t work if you can only drop in to a couple of sessions or you don’t have a current project on which you are working. \nSo\, if you are a newcomer and are interested in joining\, please RSVP for the Feb session and we’ll let you know if we have reached the limit of the group or not. \n\nTue 28 Feb\, 2023 11:30 – 1pm AEDT\nTue 28 Mar\, 2023 11:30 – 1pm AEDT\nTue 18 Apr\, 2023 11:30 – 1pm AEST (a week early to avoid Anzac Day)\nTue 23 May\, 2023 11:30 – 1pm AEST\nTue 27 Jun\, 2023 11:30- 1pm AEST\nTue 25 Jul\, 2023 11:30- 1pm AEST\nTue 22 Aug\, 2023 11:30- 1pm AEST\nTue 26 Sep\, 2023 11:30- 1pm AEST\nTue 24 Oct\, 2023 11:30 – 1pm AEDT\nTue 28 Nov\, 2023 11:30 – 1pm AEDT\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nMonthly: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/tZAkcO-rpjgjE9xC-Djyq2jCCSkdiwv1SZNl/ics?icsToken=98tyKuGspzwsGdyWuRCPRpwIHY_CM-nxiHZEj_pFv1LBCTlCMAnVFdFJNrtoBonjJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84976383998?pwd=T3ZmRGplWjY0SmI4M1hEQVBkQ0JnQT09Meeting ID: 849 7638 3998\nPasscode: 634475
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/writing-history-group-2023-03-28/2023-06-27/
LOCATION:ZOOM\, Join from anywhere in the world
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ORGANIZER;CN="Royal Historical Society of Victoria":MAILTO:office@historyvictoria.org.au
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SUMMARY:AGM + WESTON BATE ORATION
DESCRIPTION:Protected industries\, protected men: the dilemmas of wartime service\, 1939-46\nThe 2023 Weston Bate Oration will be delivered by distinguished historian\, Dr Bart Ziino in what is a thrilling first for the RHSV. Bart was the recipient of our inaugural study grant\, generously funded by our magnificent philanthropist\, Gordon Moffatt AM. Bart\, assisted by Dr Brad Underhill have been researching protected industries in Australia during WWII. This lecture reflects on their findings. \nThe RHSV AGM will run from 5pm – 6:15pm\, followed by the Weston Bate Oration at 6:30pm. \nThe management of human resources in Australia during the Second World War was founded on an awareness that modern war required strong government direction and control.  The implementation of that control\, and individual responses to it\, varied with the immediate demands of war\, perceptions of one’s own place in the war effort\, and evaluations of others’ commitment to it.  This oration examines the dilemmas that confronted those Australians employed in reserved occupations between 1939 and 1945\, protected – not always happily – from military roles.  For if there was an ‘all in’ war effort in Australia\, it was beset also with an inherited complex of attitudes from the experience of the First World War\, in which men who were not in military service became suspect as shirkers\, while ex-service organisations demanded privileges for their members not only in social esteem\, but in government services and employment.  In such an atmosphere\, workers in reserved occupations ultimately found themselves largely excluded from recognition of their wartime work – and the restrictions that came with it – both during the war and in the years after 1945. \nDr Bart Ziino is Senior Lecturer in History at Deakin University.  He has published widely on Australian experiences of war including various modes of remembrance and commemoration over the past century.  He is author of A Distant Grief: Australians\, War Graves and the Great War (UWA Press\, 2007)\, and editor of The Heritage of War (with Martin Gegner\, 2011)\, Remembering the First World War (2015)\, and Museums\, History and the Intimate Experience of the Great War (with Deborah Tout-Smith and Joy Damousi\, 2021). \nDr Brad Underhill is a tutor\, lecturer and research assistant at Deakin University. His doctoral thesis\, The New Deal on the Ground in Papua New Guinea\, examined the post-war development and decolonisation of Papua New Guinea and jointly received the Hank Nelson Memorial award for best PhD\, internationally\, on any aspect of Papua New Guinea’s history.  His research has most recently appeared in the Australian Journal of Politics and History\, and he is currently guest editing a special issue of Australian Historical Studies on ‘Remembering Papua New Guinea’. In 2017 Brad received the Vice-Chancellor’s Prize for academic excellence at Deakin\, and previously was awarded the Bowater Trust medal\, for best all-round undergraduate student. \n  \nThe RHSV AGM always precedes the Weston Bate Oration and the timetable for the night should be: \n4:30pm  refreshments \n5:00pm  Special General Meeting \n5:10pm  Annual General Meeting & RHSV awards \n6:15pm  Refreshments \n6:30pm Weston Bate Oration \n7:30pm  event ends \n  \nThis is a hybrid events and members and friends have the option of attending either in person or via ZOOM. Zoom details will be sent out 24 hours prior to the event.  \nMembers will be sent much documentation for the AGM in the weeks leading up to the AGM and Weston Bate Oration. This documentation will also be available on this website for download. 
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/agm-weston-bate-oration/
LOCATION:RHSV Gallery Downstairs\, 239 A'Beckett St\, Melbourne\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Distinguished Lecturer Series,What's On
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