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Robert Pascoe, President of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria, together with RHSV Councillors invites you to the launch of our exhibition
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Making Ourselves Useful – historical societies in the community We all would like to think we are valued by our communities, in one way or another. Representatives from local history groups including Shepparton, Kilmore, Daylesford, Benalla, Jeparit, and Bendigo will present how they define being useful in their community. Speakers will discuss how being useful
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We are delighted that eminent historian Marilyn Lake AO will deliver the 2025 Hugh Anderson Lecture. In National Life and Character: A Forecast (1893 Charles Pearson, noting that China’s population had already surpassed 400 million, wrote presciently that with ‘civilisation equally diffused… the preponderance of China over any rival - even over the United States of America – is likely to be overwhelming’. The future would see China take ‘its inevitable place as one of the great powers of the world’. Pearson’s influential forecast shaped our foundational policy of White Australia: the ‘great white walls’ were erected to keep the Asiatic threat at bay. From the 1960s, however, Australians began to forge new ties with China, forging wide-ranging cultural, educational, economic and trade relationships. Asian histories and languages began to be taught in universities. Future diplomats were trained in Asian languages. Under the Whitlam government full diplomatic relations were established with Beijing. By the end of the 1970s, Hugh and Dawn Anderson had embarked on the first of their numerous trips to China. Hosted by the Chinese Writers Association, their deep cultural engagement with Chinese authors and literature was a key feature of Australian rapprochement with China.
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Speaker: Peter Beer Peter has published the book: From cottages to Colosseums – Clements Langford – A Melbourne Master Builder’s Lasting Legacy. Clements Langford is Peter’s great-great grandfather. Clements, aged 18 moved to Melbourne in 1868 with his family. His father George became a grocer on the corner of Church and Kent Streets, Richmond. Clements |
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Join us to celebrate the publication of Old North Melbourne, the first comprehensive book on the nineteenth-century history of Hotham/North Melbourne, by Dr Fiona Gatt. 'Like Janet McCalman's Struggletown this book is destined to become a classic in the genre of Australian urban social history' – Associate Professor Seamus O'Hanlon. This is the story of the first fifty
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Have you visited the Abbotsford Convent before? It is a beautiful place, its history, architecture, artistry, and food make it a must visit. The Abbotsford Convent was a haunted place, left to languish for years after the last of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd had gone. In its prime it had been a school, a refuge, a retreat, a workhouse and a prison - the single largest charitable institution |
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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. 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. Bring your questions |
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Join us to celebrate the publication of Love, Class and Empire by A. James Hammerton. Early twentieth-century Persia and the Persian Gulf presented a largely blank slate to the British, best known only as a vital conduit to India and a site of contest – the 'great game' – with the Russian Empire. As oil
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Speakers: Chris McConville and Robert Pascoe The next talk in their series on Richmond's villages will take Chris McConville and Robert Pascoe into the half-forgotten world of "the Richmond Irish". This event will take place on Sunday 5 October. The first Irish in Richmond were the Anglo-Irish who settled Richmond Hill, in streets like The |
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