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SUMMARY:Gotcha! Concrete Prints from the McEwans Celebrity Pavement
DESCRIPTION:Who remembers the McEwans celebrity pavement? \nBetween 1972 and 1994\, scores of celebrities had their hand- and footprints immortalised in cement at the entrance of the McEwans hardware store in Bourke Street. Shopping for a hammer or a hair-dryer\, you’d step in the prints of actors\, musicians\, sportspeople\, writers\, dancers\, politicians\, an astronaut\, a racehorse – even an operatic dog. \nCurated by Robyn Annear\, ‘Gotcha!’ presents 40 of the surviving prints from the McEwans pavement\, together with stories of the celebrities who made them and newspaper images that capture the mood of the times. \nNote: enter City Gallery via Customer Relations\nMonday to Friday: 9am to 5pm
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/gotcha-concrete-prints-from-the-mcewans-celebrity-pavement/
LOCATION:City Gallery\, 110 Swanston Street\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Victorian History Events
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SUMMARY:Nature and Culture: Eugene von Guérard and the landscape of Victoria’s Camperdown region
DESCRIPTION:SPECIAL GUEST LECTURE by Dr Ruth Pullin\nin preparation for our Spring Bus Tour  \nDATE:               Thursday 12 September 2024\nTIME:                 6.00 pm start\nLOCATION        A Zoom link will be sent with a reminder before the session.\nCOST:                $15 members AGHS\, $15 Friends RBG\, $20 non-members \nBOOKINGS:       Via TryBooking link below\nENQUIRIES:       LYNDA ENTWISLE – Mobile: 0466 925 370
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/nature-and-culture-eugene-von-guerard-and-the-landscape-of-victorias-camperdown-region/
LOCATION:ZOOM\, Join from anywhere in the world
CATEGORIES:What's On
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SUMMARY:Melbourne's Art Deco cinemas of the late 1930s
DESCRIPTION:🍿Melbourne’s Art Deco cinemas of the late 1930s \nAs Melbourne emerged from the Depression in 1935 its citizens could again afford a night out at the pictures. The suburbs saw many new cinemas built\, until it was curtailed by wartime building restrictions in 1941. Join Royce Harris of the Cinema and Theatre Historical Society (CATHS) as we explore the cinema experience of the 30s as well as take a look at the buildings themselves\, which were moderne variations of the Art Deco architecture of the time. \nSeveral of these cinemas\, including the Rivoli in Camberwell and the Yarraville Sun\, are still screening but you will also discover many long forgotten gems. \nBookings are essential with a gold coin for entry.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/melbournes-art-deco-cinemas-of-the-late-1930s/
LOCATION:39 St Edmonds Road\, Prahran\, VIC 3181\, 39 St Edmonds Road\, Prahran\, VIC\, 3181\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Victorian History Events
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SUMMARY:All at Sea: Books with a Maritime Flavour
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Professor Chris Browne \nTuesday 13th August \n6.30pm – 7.30pm at The Melbourne Athenaeum Library \nLevel 1\, 118 Collins Street\, Melbourne \nPresented by The Melbourne Maritime Heritage Network\, Rare Books Melbourne and The Melbourne Athenaeum Library \nAll at Sea is an exploration of literature with a strong maritime setting\, chosen and presented by Melbourne book collector Chris Browne from his extensive library. From the beginnings of the novel in the seventeenth century until the present day\, the sea has provided a compelling backdrop for storytelling from tales of adventure and daring do through romance and philosophy to historical\, political and geographical drama. \nFollow life from The Water Babies to The Old Man and the Sea. Explore the exploits of well-known heroes such as Hornblower\, Aubrey\, and Kydd and forgotten heroes like Frank Mildmay\, Jack Saunders and Peter Simple\, and the unforgettable villains Hook\, Queeg and Long John Silver. Join us in the world of Night Plunderers and Game Lumpers\, Lightermen and Scuffle-Hunters. So\, raise the Blue Peter and let’s cast off. \nThe event is free to all. \nPlease reserve a place by booking at:  https://www.trybooking.com/CTMZH
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/all-at-sea-books-with-a-maritime-flavour/
LOCATION:The Melbourne Athenaeum Library\, Level 1\, 118 Collins Street\, Melbourne
CATEGORIES:Victorian History Events
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SUMMARY:Hugh Ralston Crawford: Innovator or Imitator?
DESCRIPTION:Engineering Heritage Victoria and the RHSV present this event in partnership. \nHugh Ralston Crawford (1876 – 1954) consulting engineer\, was a pioneer in reinforced concrete work in Australia. He was granted a provisional patent for monolithic reinforced concrete cavity wall construction in 1907\, and he later used the system to erect several concrete houses in Melbourne. In 1910\, he designed and built\, the heritage listed Sniders and Abraham’s cigarette factory at 7 Dewery Lane Melbourne\, it was the first wholly reinforced concrete building erected in Melbourne\, challenging Monash’s virtual monopoly of reinforced concrete construction in Victoria. It was also the first building in Australia to utilise the C.A.P. Turner ‘Mushroom System’ of flat slab construction. But was he an innovator or an imitator? \nDuring the First World War Crawford was employed by the Metcalfe Company of Montreal\, Canada in connection with construction and installation of grain elevators and concrete wheat silos for the bulk storage of wheat for the Federal and State governments. After the war\, he was appointed reinforced concrete consultant to the Federal Government and was associated with many of their new concrete framed Commonwealth office\, bank and telephone exchange buildings across Australia. In 1926 Crawford proposed a transporter bridge over the Yarra River at Spencer St and in 1927 proposed a similar bridge for the crossing of the Yarra at Williamstown. \n  \nSpeaker: \nDavid Beauchamp MICE\, MIEAust\, CPEng(Ret.) \nDavid Beauchamp has been a significant advocate for the preservation and restoration of heritage buildings and an engineering consultant in the field for over 40 years. He became the first president of the Carlton Association in 1969 to fight for the preservation of a large group of 19th Century terrace houses at risk of being demolished by the Housing Commission of Victoria. In that same year he established a consulting practice to give advice on the repair and restoration of historic buildings. His consultancy developed and expanded to produce conservation management plans for many bridges for VicRoads and other bodies\, and to carry out inspections\, heritage assessments and reporting on historic bridges and other buildings. \nDavid was appointed a member of the Heritage Council of Victoria in 1995\, served on the Council for 6 years\, and on Heritage Victoria’s Technical Advisory Committee until 2013. He has been a longstanding member of Engineering Heritage Victoria\, the National Trust Bridges Committee\, and actively participated in the activities of Australia ICOMOS\, and the Association of Preservation Technology in the USA. \n  \nHousekeeping \nWhen you book tickets you will be sent an automatic\, system-generated confirmation email with your tickets. If this can’t be found in your in-box please check your Spam folder or Junk Mail folder as these system-generated emails often go astray. If you can’t find your tickets\, don’t panic\, we always have a list at the door. \nAs with most RHSV events\, we will serve refreshments from 5:30pm – 6pm when the lecture starts. \nThe Zoom-cast will begin at 6pm.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/hugh-ralston-crawford-innovator-or-imitator/
LOCATION:RHSV Gallery Downstairs\, 239 A'Beckett St\, Melbourne\, Victoria\, 3000\, Australia
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SUMMARY:AGHS Vic Branch AGM + Lecture
DESCRIPTION:AGHS Vic Branch AGM with lecture to follow \n‘Rescuing Our Botanical Heritage’ 10 years of Camperdown Botanic Gardens and Arboretum Trust\nBy Janet O’Hehir \nJanet O’Hehir leads a community group in its campaign to rejuvenate and protect the Camperdown Botanic Gardens\, and to reclaim and redevelop its surrounding Arboretum. Victoria’s botanic gardens are a special part of the heritage of many of our large and small towns. Janet is particularly interested in the challenge of conserving those gardens as places of beauty for their local communities and visitors\, and as places that can enthuse and educate the public about plants. Janet will share the challenges and achievements that have transformed the Camperdown Botanic Gardens and Arboretum over the past 12 years. \n  \nDate:                    Thursday 15 August 2024\nTime:                    5.30pm refreshments\, AGM 6:00 pm\, Lecture: 6:15 pm\nLocation:           Phyllis Hoare hall\, Kew Library\nCost:                    Free admission for members and a guest.\nRegistration:   Registration is requested for catering purposes\nBook:                  trybooking.com/CSRTE
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/aghs-vic-branch-agm-lecture/
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SUMMARY:REGIONAL SEMINAR WEEKEND IN LEONGATHA: UTILISING YOUR HISTORICAL RESEARCH
DESCRIPTION:The RHSV thank the Leongatha Historical Society and the South Gippsland Historical Network who are hosting this weekend in Gippsland. This is our second HSSC* regional seminar for 2024. Drawing on the experience of local and visiting speakers\, the seminar will explore how your local research and collections can lead to valuable publications and uncover wider themes and stories. The program is spread across Leongatha and Korumburra which are only about 15 mins drive apart. We love our weekends out of Melbourne and we encourage members of historical societies to ‘take a break’ and enjoy some great history in a breath-taking setting. \n*HSSC is the RHSV’s Historical Societies Support Committee. \nThe destination \nLeongatha is located 136 km south-east of Melbourne via the Monash Freeway and South Gippsland Highway (1 hour 43 mins drive) and 60 km (45 minutes) south-west of Morwell. The towns in South Gippsland Shire and adjacent Bass Coast Shire provide some unique heritage stories as well as reflecting trends similar to the story of Victoria. \nLeongatha Historical Society \nLocated at 10 McCartin Street\, Leongatha\, in the former Mechanics institute\, Leongatha Historical Society collects\, records and preserves the history of the former Woorayl Shire. \nThe South Gippsland Historical Network \nThe organisation consists of Historical Societies and Genealogical Societies in the geographical region of South Gippsland. The network includes Korumburra\, Wonthaggi\, Inverloch\, Leongatha \, Mirboo and District\, Meeniyan\, Foster\, the South Gippsland Genealogical Society and the Toora Family History group. \nWonthaggi Historical Society \nProviding a significant contribution to the discussions\, Wonthaggi and District Historical Society is the custodian of the town and district’s mining\, social and cultural heritage. The historic\, former Wonthaggi railway station building is both a museum and home to the society. \nThe Seminar \nThe seminar will be held within the Memorial Hall at 6-8 McCartin Street\, Leongatha on Saturday 17 August.  Commemorating those who served in World War One\, the hall dates from 1926. \nThe Dinner \nIn the evening\, after the seminar\, an optional dinner will be held at the Leongatha RSL\, corner Smith Street and Michael Place\, Leongatha\, commencing at 6.00pm. The RSL has a significant collection of memorabilia\, and local historian\, Lyn Skillern\, will provide background on items on display as well as on significant local identities. \nCoal Creek Community Park and Museum \nA guide will provide background on some of the 53 significant heritage buildings on-site. Coal Creek was a Community\, Local and State government funded project to preserve the cultural history of the area and was opened to the public in 1974. The first building relocated on site was the Korumburra Courthouse\, followed by Krowera Church\, Jeetho School House and the Mine Manager’s Cottage. These now form the heart of the of 53 building heritage village. As Gippsland’s largest open air heritage village\, its vast collection of original buildings and objects tell the story of the coal mining\, agricultural\, transportation and social history of the southern Gippsland region. \n  \n2 DAY PROGRAM\nDAY 1: SAT 17 AUG\nVenue: Leongatha Memorial Hall\, 6-8 McCartin St (enter off Michael Place) \nPlease note that in every session there is time for questions and answers and sharing of experiences. \n9:00am REGISTRATION tea/coffee and networking \n9:45am – 10am PROGRAM START: Acknowledgement of Country\, welcome\, housekeeping. \n10am – 10:40am PRESENTATION 1: Rees Quilford. “Unity and Strength: the ongoing legacy of the Wonthaggi Miners’ Women’s Auxiliary” \n10:40am – 11:15am PRESENTATION 2: Sam Gatto. “The development of the cooperative movement in Wonthaggi.” \n11:15am – 11:30am MORNING TEA \n11:30am – 12:30pm PRESENTATION 3: Rosalie Triolo. “Local and international historical sources and resources rarely used in local and family research” \n12:30pm – 1pm PRESENTATION 4. Rosemary Cameron. “Impact of new tax laws on Historical Societies.” \n1pm – 2pm LUNCH and mingling/networking \n2pm – 2:45pm PRESENTATION 5: Craige Proctor. “Telling the stories of pioneer women.” \n2:45pm – 3pm AFTERNOON TEA \n2:45pm – 3:45pm PRESENTATION 6: Neil Breeden. “Tracking Down the Past: a rediscovery of the original road network into the Western Strzeleckis”. \n6pm DINNER at the Leongatha RSL\, Smith Street (Cnr Michael Place) Leongatha. \nThe RSL has a significant collection of memorabilia\, and local historian\, Lyn Skillern\, will provide background on items on display as well as on significant local identities. \n\nDAY 2: SUN 18 AUG\nThis is an optional program. \n9am – 9:40am LEONGATHA MECHANICS INSTITUTE (Leongatha Historical Society Rooms) Lyn Skillern will guide us as we inspect the Leongatha Historical Society rooms at the 1912 Mechanics Institute building as well as the adjacent Memorial Hall. (10 McCartin St\, Leongatha) \n9:40am – 10:30am Join local historian Lyn Skillern for a GUIDED TOUR OF THE LEONGATHA MEMORIAL HALL . (6-8 McCartin St\, Leongatha) \n10:30am Depart for Coal Creek (time for morning tea\, if you wish) \n11am COAL CREEK TOUR. Meet the local guide who will show the participants over the park. Coal Creek Community Park and Museum is a recreated coal mining village that depicts the history of Korumburra; from everyday life\, to the coalfields and the early agricultural development of the area. Come immerse yourself in 1870s – 1920s rural life. (12 Silkstone Road\, Korumburra) \nLunch: Buy own lunch in Korumburra \n  \nSPEAKERS & ABSTRACTS\nNEIL BREEDEN \nBorn at Dandenong in 1948\, Neil attended the Dandenong State School No. 1403. His father was an electrical contractor and in 1955 bought a share-farm at Mirboo North. The share-farm proved unsuccessful and in 1961 at the age of 13 Neil moved with family to Mirboo North where he was introduced to the joys of Dairy Farming including a large piggery. Neil matriculated from Mirboo North High School in 1966 and then went on to obtain a Diploma of Civil Engineering from the Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education later to become Monash Gippsland. After graduating in 1971 he had a short stint working for the then Country Roads Board and in 1972 was appointed as a junior engineer with the former Woorayl Shire. After a succession of promotions he was appointed as Deputy Shire Engineer in 1984 a position held until 1992. It was during this latter part of his engineering career that he had the privilege of working with the late John Murphy in providing information and maps for his Local Government histories \, “No Parallel” the history of the former Woorayl Shire in 1988 and “On the Ridge” the history of the former Shire of Mirboo in 1994. \nIt became apparent to Neil while working on these local histories with John Murphy that much of the history surrounding the settlement of the Western Strzelecki’s was determined by the original tracks into what was a somewhat forbidding region. Of particular note were McDonald’s Track\, Liddiard’s Track and Whitelaws Track. While being mentioned frequently in the early records of settlement in South Gippsland their locations and extent seemed to have disappeared over time yet they seemed to him a key element in the proper understanding of the history and development of the region. It was with this in mind that he set out to re-discover these and other overland routes into the dense rain-forest of South Gippsland. This research has culminated in the production of “Tracking Down the Past” a rediscovery of the original road network into the Western Strzelecki Ranges \nROSEMARY CAMERON has been the RHSV’s Executive Officer since 2017. Her entire career has been in not-for-profit membership-based arts management. Overseas she worked for London’s English National Opera and Royal Opera House and Oslo’s Early Music Festival. She is former director of the Melbourne Writers Festival (2005 – 2009) and the Brisbane Writers Festival (2003 – 2005). Rosemary is a judge of the 2023 Victorian Premier’s Prize for non-fiction. She was involved in Melbourne’s successful bid to become a UNESCO City of Literature. \n“Impact of new tax laws on Historical Societies.” The new laws regarding not-for-profits and income tax came into effect on 1 July. This is a complicated issue with many spin-offs (applying to become a charity / updating constitutions etc). If your society is NOT a registered charity with the ACNC then this new law will have an impact and your society may may have to pay income tax. \nSAM GATTO \nBorn in Southern Italy\, Sam came to Australia at the age of 9\, in 1951. After matriculating from Wonthaggi Higher Elementary School\, he studied to become a teacher at the University of Melbourne. He taught mainly History in Victorian secondary schools for five years. From 1971 to 2000\, he taught English and Drama in upper secondary schools in the Italian part of Switzerland. Since his return to Australia in September 2000\, he has dedicated much time researching the History of Wonthaggi. He has written six books on the subject\, exploring different aspects of the town’s unique history. \nHis talk on The Cooperative Movement in Wonthaggi describes how\, shortly after the establishment of the State Coal Mine in November 1909\, the mining community set out to build a social welfare system based on solidarity and cooperation. Although the Union played a leading part in this process\, the institutions were created also with the cooperation of non-union sections of the community and with the support of the State government. The talk will outline the development of this social system from 1909 to 1927\, well before anything similar was created anywhere else in Australia. \nCRAIGE PROCTOR a recently retired teacher and university program manager\, is a fifth generation Mortlake resident who joined the first incarnation of the Mortlake and District Historical Society in the 1980s and the re-floated Society in 2000. His passion for storytelling came from listening to his grandparents’ tales and has evolved over more than fifty years\, resulting in town and cemetery tours and co-authoring or authoring five books on the district’s history but managing the Society’s Facebook page since 2011 has taken storytelling in many new and rewarding directions. Beyond Mortlake\, Craige is a committee member of the Western Victorian Association of Historical Societies and the Association’s Newsletter Editor\, a committee member of the Pebble Church Heritage Association at St Arnaud\, Secretary of the Wimmera Mallee Pioneer Museum at Jeparit where he also lives and is a member of the RHSV’s Historical Societies Support Committee. In 2022 Craige received an RHSV Award of Merit\, one of his proudest moments. \nAs a local historian and genealogist\, Craige appreciates the challenges of researching\, chronicling and sharing the stories of pioneer women. Some were prominent in their communities and so their stories can be woven together more easily than the stories of the majority who have not made it into conventional historical narratives. In this presentation Craige will provide a framework for telling the stories of women from the past either in writing local or family histories or in verbal presentations. \nREES QUILFORD  \nRees Quilford is a writer\, a maker of  short films\, multimedia narratives and physical artworks and PhD candidate at RMIT University based in Cape Paterson. His project-based research examines the intimate and sometimes contradictory nature of place-based historical storytelling. He has been published in newspapers\, literary magazines\, and academic journals. His mixed-media essay ’92 days of winter’ was named as the winner of the 2021 Bass Coast Prize for Non-Fiction. \nRees presents a lively talk on the nationally significant legacy of Wonthaggi Miners’ Women’s Auxiliary. Those trailblazing women delivered an amazing array of social\, cultural and community legacies for Wonthaggi and the district. More than that\, they played a prominent role in Australia’s union and strike movements\, in improving women’s rights\, as well as in demonstrating the political influence women could have on public sentiment and policy. \nLYN SKILLERN  \nLyn has been involved with telling the history of Gippsland since the early 1980s. She is the Secretary of Leongatha Historical Society and has written books and articles on many subjects relating to the history of the region. Her books relate to State secondary education in Leongatha and the men of Gippsland who served in Lark Force 1941-42. \nLyn has researched the local service men and women especially those who lost their lives in conflict. She is also interested in the development of Leongatha’s Memorial Hall and RSL. \nDr ROSALIE TRIOLO FRHSV is the Chair of RHSV’s Historical Societies Support Committee. She has enjoyed over 40 years in History education\, including multiple\, long-term\, volunteer Victorian and national leadership\, presentation and advocacy roles; teaching Australian history in diverse Victorian rural and city government schools; publishing for general public\, as well as tertiary\, secondary and primary education audiences; and facilitating the development of specialist teachers of History for 25 years at Monash University. \nRosalie’s workshop prompts the sharing of historical sources and resources that attendees regularly use in their work. It then recommends a variety of less commonly considered Victorian\, Australian and international historical organisations that support and inspire creative thinking in research\, writing and non-traditional methods of presenting family\, local and wider Australian histories. \nACCOMMODATION\nLeongatha is about 110 minutes by car from the centre of Melbourne. \n\nOpal Motel\, 155 South Gippsland Hwy\, Leongatha VIC 3953 \nLeongatha Motel\, 18 Turner St\, Leongatha VIC 3953\nMcCartin’s Hotel\, 4/2 Bair St Leongatha VIC 3953 (some rooms have shared facilities).\n\nThere are also further accommodation options in Leongatha and in nearby centres – Korumburra\, Inverloch\, Wonthaggi etc – and accommodation can be booked through a variety of websites. Try booking.com\, Stayz\, Airbnb\, or LastMinute. \n\n\n\n\n\nLocated in Gippsland’s famous dairy country and in the foothills of the Strzelecki Ranges\, Leongatha is the key commercial centre for South Gippsland. When travelling in Leongatha\, you will be visiting the lands of the Bunurong People. Leongatha was originally known as Koorooman and was first settled in 1845 on a cleared area of land on the western edge of the Strzelecki Ranges.  The countryside supported rich dairy farms from the 1870s onwards. The opening of the South Gippsland Railway in 1892 boosted development as more forests were cleared to make way for cattle grazing. The area was renamed Leongatha in 1891 when a township was established on the arrival of the railway.  The town’s historic railway station can be seen from the trail at Horticultural Park.  The original Mechanics Institute (1912) serves as a local history museum while the Memorial Hall (1925) houses a gallery showcasing local art and craft.  It also hosts several renowned floral events each year including the Leongatha Horticultural Society’s Daffodil Show and Rose Spectacular. Leongatha is a starting point of the Great Southern Rail Trail. This 87 kilometre walking\, cycling and horse riding trail extends south-east to Port Welshpool\, passing through a number of small towns which offer visitors refreshments and attractions such as wineries\, galleries and antique shops. Scenic views of Wilsons Promontory National Park can be enjoyed from the trail around the Foster area. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n     Photos. From top : Coal Creek\, the Leongatha Mechanics Institute and home of the Leongatha Historical Society\, Leongatha Memorial Hall and the gorgeous Strzelecki Ranges.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/regional-seminar-weekend-in-leongatha-korumburra-utilising-your-historical-research/
LOCATION:Leongatha Memorial Hall\, 6-8 McCartin St\, Leongatha\, VIC\, 3953\, Australia
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SUMMARY:CAFHOV Chinese Family History Day 2024
DESCRIPTION:MORE THAN GOLD – An event hosted by the Chinese Australian Family Historians of Victoria (CAFHOV)\, supported by the Museum of Chinese Australian History. \nMost people are familiar with the Chinese migration to Victoria in the pursuit of gold in the 1850s\, but also many Chinese businesses were established during this period in support of the growing population. \nCome along to this event to learn about the diverse occupations and businesses that the Chinese maintained and the impact they had on the future of the community. \nGUEST SPEAKERS:\nChinese migration to Australia – Dr Sophie Couchman\, Historian and Curator\nChinese restaurants of Melbourne – Dr Barbara Nichol\, Historian\nThe history of the David Wang Emporium – Mark Wang\, CEO Chinese Museum \nCAFHOV member presentations:
\nChinatown/Bendigo merchant – Anna Wolf
\nChinese interpreter – Mark Hillyer
\nChinatown Church minister – Derek Leong
\nQueen Victoria market stallholder/grocer – Linda Wong\nCreswick Butcher and storekeeper – Ian Young \nCost: Normal Chinese Museum entry.\nPayable on the day of event at the Museum venue.\nAdult $12.50\, Concession/Children 5 years and over $10.50\n*Entry provides access to the event including all Museum exhibits/galleries. \nBookings via Trybooking.com/CTLDV
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/cafhov-chinese-family-history-day-2024/
LOCATION:Chinese Museum\, 22 Cohen Place\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Victorian History Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Chinese Australian Family Historians of Victoria":MAILTO:cafhov.secretary@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20240820T173000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20240820T190000
DTSTAMP:20260420T235607
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SUMMARY:HUGH ANDERSON LECTURE DELIVERED BY DR ROSS JONES
DESCRIPTION:Renovation or Revision: (re)writing Indigenous and Institutional Histories\nWe are thrilled that Dr Ross L Jones will deliver the 3rd Hugh Anderson Lecture in the RHSV’s Distinguished Lecture series.  \nEric Hobsbawm wrote that national histories comprise ‘anachronism\, omission\,  decontextualization and\, in extreme cases\, lies.’ If we substitute ‘nation’ with ‘university’ does the truth hold\, especially for foundational institutions in settler colonies\, such as the University of Melbourne? In this lecture Dr Jones will take a number of case studies highlighted in his latest publication Dhoombak Goobgoowana and ask what this work has accomplished and whether it encourages a radical re-thinking of the role of institutional histories. Along the way he hopes to explain the strong connections between an eighteenth-century cockney pedestrian\, a leading twentieth-century Australian psychologist\, Indigenous knowledge and Hugh Anderson’s historical project. \n  \nDr Ross L Jones BA (hons) Dip.Ed. (Melbourne) M.Ed.Stud. PhD (Monash)\, Senior Research Fellow in the Indigenous History of the University of Melbourne Project in the Centre for the Study of Higher Education in the Faculty of Education at the University of Melbourne. The outcome of this project is the recent publication of\, Dhoombak Goobgoowana: a History of Indigenous Australia and the University of Melbourne\, volume one: Truth (eds Ross L. Jones\, James Waghorne and Marcia Langton) Melbourne University Press: Carlton\, 2024. Volume 2 ‘Voice’ will be published in 2025. A free e-book is available from the MUP website here. \nRoss studied in the History School and Education Faculty at the University of Melbourne and then taught for two decades in secondary schools in Australia and the United Kingdom. He then completed a Master of Educational Studies and a PhD at Monash University\, the latter on the eugenics movement in Victoria. \nAfter teaching the histories of medicine and biology in the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Melbourne\, he took up an ARC postdoctoral position in the History School at the University of Sydney which culminated in\, amongst other publications\, Anatomists of Empire: Race\, Evolution and the Discovery of Human Biology (2020). In 2016 he was awarded the Redmond Barry Fellowship at the State Library of Victoria to write on the history of tuberculosis. He has held honorary positions at the University of Melbourne\, the University of Sydney and La Trobe University variously in Medicine\, Law and History departments. Ross’s research interests and publications range across medical and educational eugenics in Australia and the US and UK; the history of human anatomy\, anthropology and race theory; the development of public education; medical biography and public health policies. He was commissioned by the Melbourne Medical School to write Humanity’s Mirror: 150 years of Anatomy in Melbourne (2007). He has given numerous keynote and invited presentations at local and international conferences. Ross has also been regularly involved in all forms of media as a public historian\, on screen and as a researcher\, including for Who do you think you are? on SBS. He has 90\,000 readers for articles in The Conversation and has been invited to talk for local and national radio on many occasions. He has also prepared and participated in documentaries for ABC Radio National. \n  \nHugh Anderson (1927-2017) was a scholar of formidable breadth\, productivity and versatility. While it is as a folklorist that he is arguably best known both in Australia and abroad\, Anderson’s prolific output also included biography\, bibliography\, history\, school textbooks and documentary collections. His range of interests was very wide: Anderson seemed as comfortable in writing about John Pascoe Fawkner as Squizzy Taylor\, as at home with an Aboriginal gumleaf player and a Sydney street poet as with the exquisite verse of John Shaw Neilson or the stately poetry of Bernard O’Dowd. Anderson’s historical and biographical writing incorporated many of the materials\, perspectives and insights derived from folklore studies\, and he treated literary creativity as central to telling the Melbourne\, Victorian and Australian stories. Anderson’s boundary-riding between history\, biography\, folklore and literature was remarkably productive for him\, and it was not unusual among writers with his radical-nationalist politics in the middle decades of the twentieth century. (An edited version of material written by Professor Frank Bongiorno) \n  \nThis event is offered both in person at the RHSV and also via ZOOM. Those who are attending by ZOOM will be sent their log-in details 24 hours prior to the event. \nAs with all RHSV events\, we serve refreshments from 5:30pm until 6pm when the lecture will start. 6pm is also when the ZOOM broadcast will start.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/hugh-anderson-lecture-delivered-by-dr-ross-jones/
LOCATION:RHSV Gallery Downstairs\, 239 A'Beckett St\, Melbourne\, Victoria\, 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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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20240821T180000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20240821T190000
DTSTAMP:20260420T235607
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SUMMARY:The Dressmakers of Auschwitz book talk
DESCRIPTION:At the height of the Holocaust\, twenty-five young inmates of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp – mainly Jewish women and girls – were selected to design\, cut\, and sew beautiful fashions for elite Nazi women in a dedicated salon. It was work that they hoped would spare them from the gas chambers. Drawing on diverse sources including interviews with the last surviving seamstress\, The Dressmakers of Auschwitz follows the fates of these brave women. \nIn this captivating event\, author and historian Lucy Adlington will join us virtually from the United Kingdom to uncover these stories. In conversation with the Melbourne Holocaust Museum’s Dr Breann Fallon\, Lucy will reveal the bonds of family and friendship that helped these women endure persecution.  \nGuests will have an opportunity to explore the Shrine’s exhibition Trenches to Runway: Military Influences on Modern Fashion before the talk commences. While the exhibition does not explore the themes in The Dressmakers of Auschwitz\, it draws important parallels between the impact of military clothing design and wartime conditions on popular fashion\, tracing these influences from the 1870s to the present day.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/the-dressmakers-of-auschwitz-book-talk-2/
LOCATION:Shrine of Remembrance\, Birdwood Ave\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3004\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Victorian History Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Laura Thomas":MAILTO:programs@shrine.org.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20240822T110000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20240822T120000
DTSTAMP:20260420T235607
CREATED:20221207T014636Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240729T044044Z
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SUMMARY:CATALOGUING CLINICS 2024
DESCRIPTION:Join Jillian Hiscock\, the RHSV Collections Manager\, each month in this informative and easy-going Zoom forum on all aspects of cataloguing collections for historical societies. \nIn 2024’s first Cataloguing Clinic for the year\, Jillian will talk about collection management\, what you keep or don’t keep\, when you catalogue material as an archive or a collection and any issues around the actual collection. \nJillian 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. Bring your questions (no matter the topic) – 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 2024\, however\, we do ask you to register each month as this enables Jillian to send you extra material / links etc after each session. \nThe Cataloguing Clinics in 2024 will be held at \n\nThu 22 Feb 11am – 12noon (AEDT)\nThu 28 Mar 11am – 12noon (AEDT)\nThu 2 May 11am – 12noon (AEST) * this is a week later than normal because of Anzac Day\nThu 23 May 11am – 12noon (AEST)\nThu 27 Jun 11am – 12noon (AEST)\nThu 25 Jul 11am – 12noon (AEST)\nThu 22 Aug 11am – 12noon (AEST)\nThu 26 Sep 11am – 12noon (AEST)\nThu 24 Oct 11am – 12noon (AEDT)\nThu 28 Nov 11am – 12noon (AEDT)\n\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system.\nMonthly: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/tZYqcO-hqD8uH92SLyLFy8RywYTvMs4EraaZ/ics?icsToken=98tyKuGqqTwsE9KRtByORpwQB4_CM_PwpilbgvoPrzP8LwZKOjHvIdt2JJ9sRP3C \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/82776964459?pwd=NmNXVVpVSWxTejRpUDBQUnpNaEQxdz09 \nMeeting ID: 827 7696 4459\nPasscode: 142102 \nIf joining by phone: \nOne tap mobile\n+61370182005\,\,82776964459#\,\,\,\,*142102# Australia\n+61731853730\,\,82776964459#\,\,\,\,*142102# Australia \nDial by your location\n• +61 3 7018 2005 Australia\n• +61 7 3185 3730 Australia\n• +61 8 6119 3900 Australia\n• +61 8 7150 1149 Australia\n• +61 2 8015 6011 Australia \nMeeting ID: 827 7696 4459\nPasscode: 142102 \nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdh0GPiJW \n 
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/cataloguing-clinics-2023-2023-03-16-2023-04-20-2024-03-21-2024-08-22/
LOCATION:ZOOM\, Join from anywhere in the world
CATEGORIES:What's On
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ORGANIZER;CN="Royal Historical Society of Victoria":MAILTO:office@historyvictoria.org.au
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240823
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241021
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SUMMARY:Como House of Discovery: Traces of Girlhood
DESCRIPTION:History has left only traces of the experience of girlhood. Yet traces do remain\, poignant and important. They tell the stories of girls and young women who grew up in 19th and early 20th-century Victoria and the central role they played in our society.   \nThis exhibition at Como House in South Yarra will illuminate these traces\, featuring handiwork\, scrapbooks\, writing\, archaeological artefacts and photographs.   \nExploring themes including opportunities and expectations\, work and play\, learning and connections\, Traces of Girlhood brings together the diverse experiences of girls from our past through the things they have left behind.   \nBook tickets for the weekend Open House sessions to view the exhibition at your own pace\, or join a house tour to learn more of the history and stories of Como House & Garden.  \nThis exhibition is generously supported by The Hansen Little Public Humanities Grant\, Faculty of Arts\, University of Melbourne\, and presenting partner Heritage Victoria.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/como-house-of-discovery-traces-of-girlhood/
LOCATION:Como House & Garden\, Corner Williams Rd & Lechlade Ave\, South Yarra\, Victoria\, 3141\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Victorian History Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20240828T103000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20240828T140000
DTSTAMP:20260420T235607
CREATED:20240403T230840Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240918T222144Z
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SUMMARY:Family History Workshops
DESCRIPTION:👩🏽‍👩🏽‍👦🏽‍👦🏽 Family History Workshops hosted by Wendy Eldridge from our Friends of the Library. \nDo you want some guided help with your family history journey? We can help. Join a friendly and supportive environment while making use of the many resources available at the PMI Victorian History Library. \nOur workshops will cover: \n28 Feb – What you need to know what you Get Started\n24 Apr – What Beginners should do\n26 Jun – Special Guest – Heather Arnold\n28 Aug – Doing your family history using Ancestry\n30 Oct – Doing your family history using Ancestry / Understanding Military Records and Resources \nBookings are essential.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/family-history-workshops/2024-08-28/
LOCATION:39 St Edmonds Road\, Prahran\, VIC 3181\, 39 St Edmonds Road\, Prahran\, VIC\, 3181\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Victorian History Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Prahran Mechanics' Institute Victorian History Library":MAILTO:library@pmi.net.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20240828T110000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20240828T120000
DTSTAMP:20260420T235607
CREATED:20240621T045934Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240821T224219Z
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SUMMARY:CURATOR'S TOUR OF MELBOURNE'S STORIED LANEWAYS WITH DAVID THOMPSON
DESCRIPTION:David Thompson will take you behind the scenes of our current exhibition\, Melbourne’s Storied Laneways which David curated. The exhibition was prompted by the upcoming publication of  The Story of Melbourne’s Lanes: Essential but Unplanned by Weston Bate\, Richard Broome\, Nicole Davis\, Andrew J. May\, Helen Stitt  which will be launched on 3rd October 2024. \nWe all have our favourite Melbourne laneway and curator David Thompson has chosen a handful of lanes which reveal intriguing Melbourne stories. When we think of today’s gussied-up\, tourist-friendly laneways like Guilford Lane and Hosier Lane\, it is hard to imagine that a mere 50 years ago the laneways were workaday places full still of small factories and light industry. \nOther dates available: \n26 June \n25 September\n9 October 
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/curators-tour-of-melbournes-storied-laneways-with-david-thompson-2/
LOCATION:RHSV Gallery Downstairs\, 239 A'Beckett St\, Melbourne\, Victoria\, 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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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20240828T150000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20240828T163000
DTSTAMP:20260420T235607
CREATED:20240712T011015Z
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SUMMARY:Celebrating 100 Years of Frankston High School
DESCRIPTION:Frankston High School is turning 100 this year and to celebrate this important milestone a book has been written called “100 Years 100 Voices” which showcases 100 past students. It tells their stories but also documents the changes that occurred to Frankston from a small fishing village to the large multi cultural city that it is today.\nJust some of these Alumni are:\nSir John Holland : Founder of John Holland Construction Group\nDr Neil Davey : Key person responsible for introduction of decimal currency into Australia in 1966\nPaul A Bottomley : Co-inventor of MRI machine\nDebbie Flintoff-King : Olympic hurdler\, World record holder
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/celebrating-100-years-of-frankston-high-school/
LOCATION:Frankston High School Museum\, Foot Street\, Frankston\, Victoria\, 3199\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Victorian History Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sue Robinson":MAILTO:srobinson@fhs.vic.edu.au
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