Royal Historical Society of Victoria

RHSV AGM: resumption following an adjournment
2020-07-14 17:00 - 17:30 (Australia/Melbourne) | RHSV ZOOM by Invitation, Australia
For those who attended our AGM on Tuesday 26 May you will know that our meeting was adjourned as the audited financial reports were found to have some errors. Those errors have now been corrected and the updated financial reports can be found in our 2019 Annual Report here. Or you can find the Annual Report on our website under Publications > Annual Reports.
The resumption of our AGM will be brief and will be held on Tuesday 14 July at 5pm. An invitation to join the meeting by Zoom is included below. All our members and friends are invited to join us to complete this unfinished business.
RHSV RECONVENED AGM
Time: Jul 14, 2020 17:00 Melbourne,
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RHSV Reconvened Annual General Meeting
110th ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING RECONVENED
AGENDA
Tuesday 14 July 2020 at 5:00pm
To be held as an online live meeting with attendance by Zoom
Prior to the AGM held on 26 May 2020 errors were found in the circulated financial reports for 2019 so they were not presented to the members for approval. After all other agenda items (except appointing an auditor for 2020) had been dealt with the AGM was adjourned to a later date when the amended financial reports for 2019 could be presented to the members.

Attendance and apologies
To receive and consider the Financial Statement for the year ended 31 December 2019
To appoint the Auditor for 2020.

There are two Zoom events immediately following the RHSV Resumed AGM in which members and friends will be, I’m sure, interested (click on the bold titles):

RHSV Bookclub: we are discussing Brenda Niall’s Friends & Rivals. Four Great Australian Writers Barbara Baynton, Ethel Turner, Nettie Palmer, Henry Handel Richardson. 5:30pm

The History Council of Victoria has a panel discussion on Public Monuments – Contested Histories 5pm

Public Monuments - Contested Histories
2020-07-14 17:00 - 18:30 | ZOOM, Join from anywhere in the world
Societies have always used statues and other monuments as ways of both recognising and contesting power and eminence. In Australia, as everywhere else, there is public debate over whether and which statues should be removed, who should make the decision, and what should be the fate of the statues themselves. Should new monuments be commissioned alongside or to replace them? Recent actions in Australia to remove, replace or protect statues and other public markers have historical precedents which have much to tell us. Speakers at this webinar will present insights and case studies from Australia, Europe, and elsewhere.

The topics and their presenters are:
Revolutions and ‘patrimonial panics’ in France
Peter McPhee AM is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Melbourne and Chair of the History Council of Victoria.
Contextualising relocated monuments: lessons from three post-Soviet statue parks
Claire Baxter holds a Master of Conflict Archaeology & Heritage from the University of Glasgow.

First Peoples’ perspectives in contextualising contested histories
John Patten is a Bundjalung-Yorta Yorta man on his father’s side, and a descendant of First Fleet convicts, Irish rebels and the Saami people of Lapland via his mother. He is Manager, Diversity and Belonging, Museums Victoria, and a Board member of the History Council of Victoria.
Missing monuments: imagining the future of Australian public memorialisation
Dr Yves Rees is a lecturer in History at La Trobe University, a regular contributor to ABC Radio Melbourne and a Board member of the History Council of Victoria.
Professor Al Thomson, Monash University, will facilitate the discussion.
For more information or to register and receive a Zoom link a few days before the event, please click here.

ZOOM BOOKCLUB: Brenda Niall's Friends and Rivals: Four Great Australian Writers: Barbara Baynton, Ethel Turner, Nettie Palmer, Henry Handel Richardson
2020-07-14 17:30 - 19:00 | RHSV, Gordon Moffatt Room, 239 A'Beckett St, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia
Join respected biographer, Brenda Niall, in talking about four Australian women writing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—a time when stories of bush heroism and mateship abounded, a time when a writing career might be an elusive thing for a woman.
Our bookclub is thrilled to have Brenda join our discussion. It is a rare opportunity to learn so much more about the work and research behind the biography and to meet an author who has spent a lifetime researching men and women who have shaped Melbourne and our wider world.
Friends and Rivals is a vivid and engaging account of the intersecting and entwined lives of Ethel Turner, author of the much loved Seven Little Australians, Barbara Baynton, who wrote of the harshness of bush life, Nettie Palmer, essayist and critic, and Henry Handel Richardson, of The Getting of Wisdom and The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney fame.
Brenda Niall illuminates a fascinating time in Australia’s literary history and brings to life the remarkable women who made it so.

Our bookclub has flourished through times of COVID and we’ve been thrilled to welcome the authors of the books chosen to join our discussions. We will be able to have a few people join us in real life, not just by Zoom, so if you hanker after a bit of company, a glass of wine and some cheese do join me at the RHSV and the others can Zoom in.
If you’d like to buy a copy of Friends and Rivals it is available in our bookshop: https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/product/friends-rivals-by-brenda-niall/

The Zoom details you need:
Book Club: Brenda Niall
Time: Jul 14, 2020 17:30 Melbourne
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Victorian Museums and Galleries Awards
2020-08-04 18:00 - 20:30 | State Library of Victoria, Entry 3, Village Roadshow Theatre, La Trobe Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia
Celebrate the amazing achievements of the Victorian museum and gallery sector with friends and colleagues. Generously supported by the State Library of Victoria and hosted in their Conversation Quarter, which recently opened as part of the Library’s Vision2020 redevelopment project. Includes drinks and canapes.

Book Club with Robyn Annear. Nothing New.
2020-08-10 17:30 - 19:00 | ZOOM, Join from anywhere in the world
“I have a double-barrelled gun, silver mounted and in excellent order. I want, in exchange, a double perambulator.” Exchange and Mart, 1869.
Upholders, Shoddy mills, Petticoat Lane, fripperers – Nothing New opens up a wonderful world that, despite our love-affair with op-shops, is all but hidden from us in today’s world of consumerism and obsolescence.

Join the splendid Robyn Annear when she talks about Nothing New, her latest book, which chronicles the history of second-hand trade across the world and down the ages (Jesus’ clothes would have been divided up among the soldiers guarding the crosses as their perquisite, or ‘perk’ as we’d say today).
We are asking those that join bookclub to bring their own favourite story of an op-shop find or hand-me-down (I can remember the joy of growing taller than my elder sister so I would never have a hand-me-down again).
Robyn Annear is author of five books of history, including Bearbrass: Imagining Early Melbourne, winner of a Victorian Premier’s Literary Award in 1995 and still in print today. Her other books are: Nothing But Gold: The diggers of 1852, The Man Who Lost Himself, Fly a Rebel Flag, and A City Lost & Found: Whelan the Wrecker’s Melbourne.
As a curator, Robyn has explored aspects of Melbourne and Victoria’s history in exhibitions at the State Library of Victoria and the City Gallery (‘Up’, ‘Royal Melbourne’, & ‘Special’), besides writing exhibition text for the blockbuster A Day in Pompeii show at Melbourne Museum in 2009, and for the Museum’s permanent exhibition, The Melbourne Story.
Robyn has appeared on TV, talking about goldfields history, in Victoria Wood’s BBC documentary series, Victoria’s Empire (Episode 3), and on Tony Robinson Explores Australia (Episode 4: Eureka). In 2014, storyteller Jan Wositzky interviewed Robyn about pre-Eureka strife on the goldfields in his video series on the 1851 Monster Meeting at Forest Creek. Her most recent TV appearance was in The Crown and Us, a two-part series which aired on ABC-TV in March 2019.
Robyn won the Civic Choice award in the 2015 Melbourne Prize for Literature with her essay, ‘Places Without Poetry’. She is a past member of the Library Board of Victoria and was one of the State Library’s inaugural Creative Fellows.
In 2018, Robyn launched her monthly podcast, Nothing on TV, in which she ransacks Trove Newspapers, the National Library of Australia’s digital repository of historical newsprint, to present stories from a time when there was, literally, nothing on TV. If you have never listened to Robyn’s podcast – don’t waste another minute and start listening now. They are a delight.

ZOOM details for joining this bookclub
Topic: Bookclub: Robyn Annear
Time: MONDAY AUG 10, 2020 5:30PM , Melbourne,
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ZOOM CATALOGUING CLINIC
2020-08-13 11:00 - 12:00 | ZOOM, Join from anywhere in the world
Calling all historical societies across Victoria.
Our inaugural clinic was very well attended with people zooming in from across Victoria and Darwin.
The clinics will be held monthly and they are a relaxed forum in which to raise your queries about any aspect of cataloguing. They are managed and led by Jillian Hiscock, our RHSV Collections Manager. We will be having guest speakers at future clinics and if you have an issue which you’d like discussed you can always email the details to Jillian beforehand. Or just connect up on the day and pose your question then and give Jillian a surprise!
Jillian Hiscock, our RHSV Collections Manager and a very experienced librarian, will be available through Zoom to answer any queries you might have about cataloguing – or, indeed any other aspect of your collection.
This is a monthly clinic so you can use it as a forum whenever you want. You might want to just listen in for the hour and learn from other’s questions – or maybe you have the answers too. It will be a place for historical societies to get together and talk cataloguing and collections.

Invitation to join Zoom Cataloguing Clinic
Topic: Cataloguing Clinic
Time: Aug 13, 2020 11:00AM Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney
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Webinar: Sources of Income
2020-08-18 14:30 - 16:00 | webinar
Beyond grants: this webinar will share tips for securing funding; relationship building, fundraising, corporate partnerships and securing in kind services and donations.

Sector Event: Victorian Collections Day
2020-09-08 10:00 - 16:00 | TBA
A full day of information and workshops aimed at the community collecting sector to help you achieve the best care for your collection.
Hear from museum and gallery industry experts on topics including collection management, conservation and exhibition skills. Talks will cover ways to approach these topics with small budgets in mostly volunteer organisations, ideal for the small-medium groups who use VC to catalogue their collections.

CATALOGUING CLINIC
2020-09-10 11:00 - 12:00 | ZOOM, Join from anywhere in the world
Calling all historical societies across Victoria.
We are launching a new initiative – a Cataloguing Clinic conducted through Zoom. Jillian Hiscock, our RHSV Collections Manager and a very experienced librarian, will be available through Zoom to answer any queries you might have about cataloguing – or, indeed any other aspect of your collection.
If you want, you can email Jillian beforehand with your questions as sometimes it is easier to put something in writing. Or just connect up on the day and pose your question then and give Jillian a surprise! (collections@historyvictoria.org.au)
Jillian will open with some basic cataloguing tips and we’ll take it from there.
We plan to make this a monthly clinic so you can use it as a forum whenever you want. You might want to just listen in for the hour and learn from other’s questions – or maybe you have the answers too. It will be a place for historical societies to get together and talk cataloguing and collections.
Invitation to join Zoom Cataloguing Clinic
The Zoom details you need are: Topic: Cataloguing Clinic
Time: Sep 10, 2020 11:00 Melbourne,
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The Shelf Life of Zora Cross a presentation by Cathy Perkins
2020-09-22 16:45 - 18:30 | ZOOM, Join from anywhere in the world
The Shelf Life of Zora Cross – a presentation by Cathy Perkins
Tuesday, 22 September 2020 4.45 pm for 5 pm
via Zoom (link will be sent on booking)
Please book numbers are limited
Event ran by the Camberwell Historical Society
George Fernand- enquiries@chs.org.au
Australian poet and journalist Zora Cross caused a sensation in 1917 with her book Songs of Love and Life. Here was a demure-looking young woman, celebrating sexual passion in a provocative series of sonnets. She was hailed as a genius, and many expected her to endure as a household name. While Cross’s fame didn’t last, she kept writing through financial hardship, personal tragedies and two world wars, producing an impressive body of work. Her verse, prose and correspondence with the likes of Ethel Turner, George Robertson (of Angus & Robertson) and Mary Gilmore place Zora Cross among the key personalities of Australia’s literary world in the early twentieth century.
Cathy Perkins’ biography The Shelf Life of Zora Cross, published in November 2019, has received outstanding reviews and was recently shortlisted for a NSW Premier’s History Award. Cathy will talk about her discovery of Zora Cross in the archives of the State Library of NSW, where she works as an editor, and the many pleasures and challenges in writing her life story.

Ross McMullin – ‘Turning Disaster into Victory: The Battle of Polygon Wood’
2020-09-22 18:30 - 20:00 | RHSV Officers’ Mess Upstairs, 239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia
The battle of Polygon Wood in September 1917 is one of the AIF’s most iconic but least understood victories.
It has usually been depicted as a relatively straightforward affair — the Australians advanced behind an irresistible barrage that resembled a Gippsland bushfire, and there were inevitable casualties but no major hiccups. This interpretation is fundamentally flawed.
There was indeed a major hiccup that complicated the operation. The Germans, sensing what was coming, launched a ferocious pre-emptive attack against the AIF’s right. The 58th Battalion, then holding the front line, held firm despite severe casualties, while the British unit alongside was driven back. AIF units earmarked for the following day’s operation were sent forward to retrieve the situation, and further heavy losses resulted.
With enemy forces occupying the adjacent British sector, General Pompey Elliott recommended that the operation be postponed. His superiors insisted that the attack had to proceed. Elliott had to overhaul the arrangements in great haste. He remained sceptical about assurances he was given that the plight on the right would be fixed before zero hour. It wasn’t. Even so, men under his command attained the Australian objectives in their sector and ensured that the British objectives on their right were attained as well.
When the real story is understood, the extent of the AIF achievement at Polygon Wood can be properly appreciated. Dr Ross McMullin, the award-winning biographer of Pompey Elliott, will tell the story of the battle in a vivid and illuminating illustrated presentation.
Date: 22 September 2020
Time: Doors open 6:30 PM. Speaker 7:00 PM-8:00 PM. Refreshments to 8.30 PM.
Where: The Royal Historical Society, 239 A’Beckett Street, Melbourne.
MHHV Members $10, General Public $15.
Strict Social Distancing regulations will apply.
It is necessary that all audience members pre-book their ticket so that we can organise the venue appropriately for your safety.
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Dr Ross McMullin is an acclaimed biographer and historian, and a lively and entertaining speaker. His biography Pompey Elliott won awards for biography and literature. Farewell, Dear People: Biographies of Australia’s Lost Generation was awarded the Prime Minister’s Prize for Australian History and the National Cultural Award. His latest book is Pompey Elliott at War: In His Own Words. His biography of Australia’s first official war artist, Will Dyson: Australia’s Radical Genius, was highly commended by the judges of the National Biography Award. Other previous books include the ALP centenary history The Light on the Hill: The Australian Labor Party 1891-1991, and another political history So Monstrous a Travesty: Chris Watson and The World’s First National Labour Government.

The West Gate Bridge Collapse: 50 Years On
2020-10-06 18:30 - 19:30 | Online
50 years ago, the partially-constructed West Gate Bridge collapsed, killing 35 workers and injuring 18 more. The disaster remains Australia’s worst industrial accident to this day.
Join us in conversation with Tommy Watson and Danny Gardiner of the West Gate Bridge Memorial Committee to learn about that fateful day, their work on the bridge, and their ongoing battle for workplace safety.
This will be an online event. A link will be emailed to registrants the day before the event along with instructions on how to participate.
If you need any help you can contact us by phone 1300 462 542 between 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday, via email at library@hobsonsbay.vic.gov.au, or via Instagram DM or Facebook Message.
Image source: John T Collins courtesy of State Library Victoria

Mallee Country: Land People History. A discussion
2020-10-09 17:30 - 19:00 | ZOOM, Join from anywhere in the world
This is a free online Zoom event presented by Western Victorian Association of Historical Societies for History Month.
The speakers are: Richard Broome, Katie Holmes and Charles Fahey
‘We often hear the phrase, “the Mallee breeds em tough.” This book not only supports that but also gives a silent tip of the hat to the men and women over thousands of years who have called the Mallee home. It is a must read for every Australian.’ Kara Taylor, Agora
Our three speakers will discuss their co-authored book, Mallee Country, which tells the powerful history of mallee lands and people across southern Australia from Deep Time to the present. Carefully shaped and managed by Aboriginal people for over 50,000 years, mallee country was dramatically transformed by settlers, first with sheep and rabbits, then by flattening and burning the mallee to make way for wheat. Government backed settlement schemes devastated lives and country, but some farmers learnt how to survive the droughts, dust storms, mice, locusts and salinity – as well as the vagaries of international markets – and became some of Australia’s most resilient agriculturalists. In mallee country, innovation and tenacity have been neighbours to hardship and failure.
Mallee Country is a story of how land and people shape each other. It is the story of how a landscape once derided by settlers as a ‘howling wilderness’ covered in ‘dismal scrub’ became home to citizens who delighted in mallee fauna and flora and fought to conserve it for future generations. And it is the story of the dreams, sweat and sorrows of people who face an uncertain future of depopulation and climate change with creativity and hope.
Click here to buy a copy of the book

A Conversation: Dr Sue Silberberg with Dr Andrew Lemon
2020-10-13 17:30 - 19:00 | ZOOM, Join from anywhere in the world
A History Month event.
Join author, Dr Sue Silberberg in conversation with Dr Andrew Lemon about Sue’s book, A Networked Community (Melbourne University Publishing).
Melbourne’s first colonising expedition was funded by a group of investors including the Jewish emancipist Joseph Solomon. Thus, in Melbourne, as in the settlement of the continent itself, Jews were at the foundation of colonisation. In Victoria, as in the other new Australian colonies, there were no civil or political restrictions on the Jewish community. As with other Jewish communities in the large centres of the world, they responded to the freedoms of an emancipated society, while the political and social environment of a new city such as Melbourne provided a unique set of opportunities.
Unlike in other cities where Jewish property ownership was restricted, here Jews could live and work where they chose, becoming, from the first land sales, investors in property. Subsequently as the city expanded, as developers and builders they influenced the formation of the urban fabric, while their intellectual and economic connections brought new political and intellectual ideas and networks to the colonial experience.
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Kew Historical Society's Dickinson Lecture
2020-10-14 20:00 - 21:00 | ZOOM, Join from anywhere in the world
We hope that you will join us for this informative and entertaining lecture. To register, please contact Desley Reid on: info@kewhistoricalsociety.org.au, before the event, and you will be sent the Zoom login details.
Kew Historical Society’s Dickinson Lecture, to be given on Wednesday 14 October at 8pm, will be held this year via Zoom. It will be on Victorian cemeteries, and the speaker, Dr. Celestina Sagazio, is an absolute authority on this subject. She is a consultant historian, author and tour guide. She was Historian and Manager of Cultural Heritage of the Southern Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust and previously worked as an historian for the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) for many years. Celestina is a recognised authority on the history and conservation of cemeteries in Victoria. She is the author/editor of a number of publications, including Cemeteries: Our Heritage, Conserving Our Cemeteries, The National Trust Research Manual and Women’s Melbourne. Celestina was also a contributor to the valuable publication In Memoriam, which is a history of public cemeteries in Victoria. Celestina is an experienced tour guide and organiser of the popular night tours of the Melbourne General Cemetery and an informative public speaker.

Victorian Museums and Galleries Forum
2020-10-22 10:00 - 17:00 | Castlemaine
‘Collecting (in) 2020’ will bring together members, professionals, volunteers, students and the wider community to hear museum and gallery professionals from around the world discuss current issues in the sector.

Using technology to bring life to stories from the past
2020-10-26 17:00 - 18:00 | ZOOM, Join from anywhere in the world
Shortlisted for this year’s Victorian Community History Awards, Misadventure in Little Lon is an AR Game that promises to shake up how we interact with History!
Based on a true crime in Melbourne’s notorious red-light district in 1910, Misadventure In Little Lon is the debut game in the series and the world’s first augmented reality true crime mobile game.
To celebrate History Month, the team behind the game will hold a panel event so join the team discussing the story, characters and development process behind Misadventure In Little Lon. The panel will delve into how augmented reality can enhance other historical stories/precincts and appeal to a broader audience.

Carly Godden (chair) – writer, historian, podcaster
Emma Ramsay – Game developer, producer
Andy Yong – Game developer, artist
Michael Shelford – consultant, writer, historian
Jenny Samms – descendent of central characters Maud & Ernest Gunter

Zoom log-in details for this event :
Monday 26 Oct @ 5pm AEDT
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Zoom events clinic
2020-10-27 09:30 - 10:30 | ZOOM, Join from anywhere in the world
This session is for people new to Zoom who’d like to know how to set up events (including AGMs) in Zoom
Rosemary Cameron will cover:

setting up the event
recording the event
screen sharing
using polls (very useful for AGMs)
sending out invitations

Like our cataloguing clinics – this is a relaxed format where questions and discussion are encouraged.
Printed material will be emailed out to all participants.
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Workshop: Victorian Collections
2020-10-27 10:00 - 15:00, 2020-11-24 10:00 - 15:00 | Melbourne Museum, 11 Nicholson St, Carlton, VIC, 3053, Australia
This hands-on workshop will guide you through the process of cataloguing on the Victorian Collections system and cover basic principles of collection management, object handling and digitisation.

Emerging Historians 2020
2020-10-27 17:15 - 18:30 | ZOOM, Join from anywhere in the world
To celebrate History Month join your friends and colleagues from the Professional Historians Association and RHSV to listen to emerging historians present on their research topics.
This is always a fascinating event as we get insights into a wide variety of history research from across the state.
Chaired by Andrew Lemon.

RSVP: https://phavic.wildapricot.org/event-4005885

Cataloguing Clinic: Thu 29 Oct
2020-10-29 11:00 - 12:00 | ZOOM, Join from anywhere in the world
Calling all historical societies across Victoria.
Our next Zoom online Cataloguing Clinic during History Month is the 29th of October.
Jillian Hiscock, our RHSV Collections Manager and a very experienced reference librarian, will be available through Zoom to answer any queries you might have about cataloguing – or, indeed any other aspect of your collection.
If you want, you can email Jillian beforehand with your questions as sometimes it is easier to put something in writing. Or just connect up on the day and pose your question then and give Jillian a surprise! (collections@historyvictoria.org.au)
Jillian will open with some basic cataloguing tips and we’ll take it from there.
These clinics are monthly – so keep an eye out for the one in November. Your participation is entirely up to you – you might want to just listen in for the hour and learn from other’s questions – or maybe you have the answers too. It will be a place for historical societies to get together and talk cataloguing and collections.
These events are free. If you are not familiar with Zoom please, well before the event starts, click on one of the links below and familiarise yourself with the process.
2. Thu 29th Oct, 2020 11:00 Eastern Australian Daylight Time
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Into the past: RHSV volunteer morning tea when we remember our childhood holidays
2020-11-05 10:00 - 11:00 | ZOOM, Join from anywhere in the world
Our Zoom morning tea remembering our grandparent’s cooking was great fun – who’d ever guess that there were so many indifferent cooks! I’m surprised we survived.
For our next morning tea we ask you to share memories of childhood holidays – it can be anything from a day trip to the trip of a lifetime. If you want to get creative you can screen share photos (or videos). Try and keep your stories short – please no War & Peace!
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WWI Honour Boards: Remembering the Women & Men of the Geelong Region
2020-11-11 13:00 - 14:00 | ZOOM, Join from anywhere in the world
Geelong Regional Library Corporation invites RHSV members and friends to join this digital event. The panel of special guests includes historian and author Dr Ruth Lee, Lieut. Col Neil Smith AM (Retd) of Mostly Unsung Military Research, Lynne Bryant (President of Bellarine Camera Club), Mark Beasley as Geelong Heritage Centre Project Manager and is being hosted by Dr Geoff Russell.
To RSVP: email events@grlc.vic.gov.au

Tour and Workshop: Look History in the Eye at the Archives Centre
2020-11-11 14:00 - 16:00 | Victorian Archives Centre, 99 Shiel Street, North Melbourne, VIC, 3051, Australia
Targeted at curators with an interest in Victorian history, this workshop, presented in partnership with the Public Record Office of Victoria (PROV) will provide training on how to research their collection catalogue, which features three new photographic collections. Includes a tour of the PROV collection.

Kew Historical Society’s 2020 AGM
2020-11-11 19:45 - 21:00 | ZOOM, Join from anywhere in the world
We would like to invite you to attend the 2020 AGM.
The event will showcase some of the significant items in our collection and will allow time for questions.
To register, please email the Society at info@kewhistoricalsociety.org.au and a link to the meeting will be sent.

General Sir Peter Cosgrove interviewed by Emeritus Professor Richard Broome
2020-11-13 18:30 - 19:30 | ZOOM, Join from anywhere in the world
The RHSV is thrilled to invite our members and friends to join our President, Richard Broome, in a Zoom conversation with General Sir Peter Cosgrove AK AC (Mil) CVO MC (Retd), one of Australia’s most significant public figures who has spent a life-time making history. Dr Andrew Lemon will be chairing this event.

Peter Cosgrove was born in Sydney in 1947. The son of a soldier, he attended Waverley College in Sydney and graduated in 1968 from the Royal Military College, Duntroon. Early in his military career, he fought in Vietnam, commanding a rifle platoon. He was awarded the Military Cross in 1971 for his performance and leadership during an assault on enemy positions.
In 1972, he served as Aide de Camp to Governor-General Sir Paul Hasluck. He returned to regimental life as second in command of a Company, rising to Adjutant then Company Commander in the Army’s 5th Battalion Royal Australian Regiment (5 RAR), then 5/7 RAR in Holsworthy, Sydney. Subsequent appointments included a period as a tactics instructor at the Army’s Infantry Centre in Singleton, New South Wales; a year’s study at the United States Marine Corps Staff College in Quantico, USA; extended periods of duty in the United Kingdom and India; and command of 1 RAR. He was appointed a Member in the Military Division of the Order of Australia (AM) for his service in command in 1983-84.
Peter Cosgrove came to national attention in 1999 when, as Commander of the International Task Force East Timor (INTERFET), he was responsible for overseeing that country’s transition to independence. For his leadership in this role he was promoted to Companion in the Military Division of the Order of Australia (AC).
Promoted to Lieutenant General, he was appointed Chief of Army in 2000. After further promotion to General, he served as Chief of the Defence Force from 2002 to 2005. He retired from the Australian Defence Force in 2005. Subsequently, he accepted positions on several boards, including QANTAS, Cardno and the Australian Rugby Union. He was appointed by the Queensland Government to lead the taskforce rebuilding communities in the Innisfail region following the devastation caused by Cyclone Larry in 2006. From 2007 to 2012, he chaired the Council of the Australian War Memorial, and served as Chancellor of the Australian Catholic University from 2010 until early 2014.
On 25 March 2014, General Cosgrove became a Knight in the Order of Australia when he was sworn in as Governor-General (2014-2019). As Governor-General he travelled far and wide, supporting Australians in times of crisis, sadness, joy or celebration, representing us on the world stage with humour, intelligence and a force of personal magnetism that was felt by everyone from prime ministers to presidents.
When he retired in July 2019, it was as one of the most beloved and respected governors-general in Australia’s history.
General Sir Peter Cosgrove has now written his memoir, You Shouldn’t Have Joined … (an expression much used during his days as a soldier). His memoir allows us an incredible insight into the role and world of Australia’s Governor-General. He was there as two prime ministers were toppled by their own party. He was there through disasters both natural and man-made, such as the destruction of MH17. You Shouldn’t Have Joined … is a true reflection of the man himself, filled with intelligence, forthrightness, compassion and a brilliant eye for a telling anecdote.

TICKETS TO EVENT AND SIGNED COPIES

This is a ticketed event and the cost is $10 per person or

If you purchase a signed copy of General Sir Peter Cosgrove’s memoir, You Shouldn’t Have Joined, at the RRP $49.99, your ticket is included and postage is free-of-charge.

Zoom log-in details will be emailed to all ticket-holders and book-buyers 24 hours prior to the event.

Seminar: Redevelopment
2020-11-19 14:00 - 17:00 | Kathleen Syme Library and Community Centre
This seminar explores what ‘redevelopment’ means for museums and galleries. From feasibility studies to reopening the doors, learn about the process, its challenges and its potential.

Anthony George Maldon (AGM) Michell a presentation by Stephen Phillip
2020-11-24 18:45 - 20:30 | ZOOM, Join from anywhere in the world
Please Book – Numbers are limited – Zoom link will be sent after booking
Phone: George Fernando 9885 9927 or enquires@chs.org.au
Stephen Phillip is a mechanical engineer and usually lives in Melbourne,
Australia. His fascination with Michell began while he was a student at
Melbourne University. He was surprised to discover that a comprehensive biography of Michell did not exist, so decided to write one himself.
Anthony George Maldon (AGM) Michell was undoubtedly one of the
greatest Australian engineers. A prolific inventor, he is best known for his
tilting pad thrust bearing. It remains one of the greatest inventions in
lubrication science, and revolutionised ship propulsion without it,
modern shipping would not be possible. This talk reveals the story of Michell’s fascinating life and astonishing achievements, and the motivations of the man behind the inventions. It weaves engineering and technology into the history of the early twentieth century.

Out of the Woods - Trees on Trial and the Evolution of Arboreta by Max Bourke AM
2020-11-25 18:00 - 19:30 | ZOOM, Join from anywhere in the world
Wednesday 25th November | 6pm
Bookings open 10th November, close 24th November
BOOKINGS ONLINE:
https://www.trybooking.com/BMGAF
AGHS VIC BRANCH
AGHS members $5
Friends RBG $5
Non-members $10
Further Information Contact: Wendy Dwyer – aghsvicbranch2@gmail.com
Max will cover how arboreta were conceived in the 19th century, the part they played in tree science and their new role in conservation as evidenced by the National Arboretum in Canberra. Max Bourke AM has worked as a scientist, journalist and environmentalist, and was awarded an Order of Australia (AM) in 2004 for contributions to conservation and Australia’s cultural heritage. After an early career in agricultural research, Max moved into science journalism at the ABC and then into the Federal Public Service, where he became the first CEO of the Australian Heritage Commission. From there, he moved into environmental management and supporting further investment into agriculture. For over 40 years, Max has helped rehabilitate and care for 30ha of coastal NSW by establishing a private arboretum of Australian plants. Max has been Chair of the AGHS ACT, Riverina, Monaro Branch; Deputy Chair of the AGHS National Committee and he is the immediate past President of the Friends of the Australian National Botanic Gardens.
