Royal Historical Society of Victoria

WRITING HISTORY GROUP
2023-12-26 11:30 - 13:00, 2023-11-28 11:30 - 13:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | ZOOM, Join from anywhere in the world
Dr Cheryl Griffin leads this group which has been meeting since 2020.
This 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.
This 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.
So, 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.

Tue 28 Feb, 2023 11:30 – 1pm AEDT
Tue 28 Mar, 2023 11:30 – 1pm AEDT
Tue 18 Apr, 2023 11:30 – 1pm AEST (a week early to avoid Anzac Day)
Tue 23 May, 2023 11:30 – 1pm AEST
Tue 27 Jun, 2023 11:30- 1pm AEST
Tue 25 Jul, 2023 11:30- 1pm AEST
Tue 22 Aug, 2023 11:30- 1pm AEST
Tue 26 Sep, 2023 11:30- 1pm AEST
Tue 24 Oct, 2023 11:30 – 1pm AEDT
Tue 28 Nov, 2023 11:30 – 1pm AEDT
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TRIVIA NIGHT ELTHAM DISTRICT HISTORICAL SOCIETY
2023-12-13 19:30 - 22:00 | Eltham Senior Citizens’ Centre, Library Place, Eltham, VIC, 3095, Australia
Eltham District Historical Society’s Christmas function is a trivia night – put together a table (or join an existing table) and come along in your wildest or, at least, your out-of-the-ordinary gear. Kaftans and 60s attire encouraged!
You are welcome to bring your own drinks and some supper to share.

To book please contact one of the following:
• Jim Connor, President
0418 379 497 – edhshistory@gmail.com
• Russell Yeoman, Society Secretary
9439 9717 – edhsoffice@gmail.com
• Robert Marshall, Treasurer / Membership Secretary
edhstreasurer@gmail.com

BOUNDLESS PLAINS: MEET THE AUTHOR
2023-12-06 17:00 - 18:00 | Springvale Community Hub, 3 Grace Park Ave, Springvale, VIC, 3171, Australia
Q&A WITH AUTHOR RYAN BUTTA
To celebrate the Boundless Plains exhibition in Springvale, join us for a discussion with Sherene Hassan, Director of Community Engagement, Islamic Museum of Australia and Ryan Butta,
author of The Ballad of Abdul Wade, which tells the true story of Australia’s unsung pioneering heroes, the Afghan Cameleers. Sherene and Ryan will delve deep into Australia’s cameleer history.
Explore photographs captured during a contemporary expedition across Australia in 2011. The aptly named Boundless Plains expedition was initiated by Moustafa Fahour OAM, founder of the Islamic Museum of Australia. This journey saw Moustafa and three friends travel the country, chronicling Australia’s rich Muslim history. From Marree, in far north South Australia and the site of Australia’s first mosque, built by Afghan Cameleers, to Arnhem Land, Broome and beyond, a collection of the resulting images are highlighted in this photographic exhibition, presented by the Islamic Museum, in collaboration with the Greater City of Dandenong.
On display 4 – 17 December 2023 at Springvale Community Hub
This is a free activity but please register with the QR code

Altona Homestead Devonshire Tea
2023-12-03 10:00 - 14:00, 2023-11-05 10:00 - 14:00 | Altona Homestead, 128 Queen Street, Altona, Victoria, 3018, Australia
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.
Our 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

The 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.
Restoration 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.

AHA Inaugural Public Fund Lecture 2023
2023-11-28 18:00 - 20:00 | VIC
AHA Inaugural Public Fund Lecture 2023
WHEN: Tuesday 28 November 2023, 6.00pm to 8.00pm AEDT
WHERE: Social Sciences Building (A02), Lecture Theatre 200, University of Sydney
RSVP: Contact executive@theaha.org.au if you have any questions about this event.
Richard Glover, ‘History as Inspiration’
Positive change, it sometimes seems, is almost impossible to achieve. The individual feels powerless when it comes to doing something about climate change, inequality, indigenous rights and a million other failings. Yet history – both family history and Australia’s wider story – remind us of how sharply things can change. In this talk, Richard will describe the strange, almost unrecognisable, Australia of the 1960s and 1970s, and also celebrate the National Library’s Trove website, and how it has given us all the ability to take an express trip into the past…sometimes with the help of our families.
About Richard
Richard Glover’s most recent book is Best Wishes, a book about making the world a better, less annoying place, one wish at a time. He is also author of The Land Before Avocado – a journey into the bizarre Australia of the late 60s and early 70s – and the family memoir Flesh Wounds, which won the Readers’ Choice Award as Biography of the Year in the 2016 Australian Book Industry Awards. Richard’s weekly humour column has been published in the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age for over thirty years. He writes regularly for The Washington Post and also presents Thank God It’s Friday on ABC local radio. For more: www.richardglover.com.au

CURATOR'S TOUR OF GARRYOWEN'S MELBOURNE WITH DR LIZ RUSHEN
2023-11-28 14:00 - 15:30 | RHSV Gallery Downstairs, 239 A'Beckett St, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000, Australia
THIS SECOND TOUR HAS BOOKED OUT. LIZ WILL GIVE A THIRD CURATOR’S TOUR ON TUESDAY, 6 FEBRUARY 2024. YOU CAN BOOK TICKETS HERE
Historian Dr Liz Rushen will take you behind the scenes of our current exhibition, Garryowen’s Melbourne which Liz curated. The exhibition grew out of the research Liz had done for her book, Garryowen Unmasked: The Life of Edmund Finn, which was launched earlier this year and was aided by her deep knowledge of the RHSV collection and its treasures.
The tour will be followed by afternoon tea.
Edmund Finn (1819-98), Irish immigrant, journalist, raconteur and eyewitness to the development of the Port Phillip District, is best known as ‘Garryowen’, author of The Chronicles of Early Melbourne 1835-1852. His lively writing, essential to any appreciation of pre-separation Victoria, brings to life this often-neglected period and place. Yet little has been written about the man himself, his actions or attitudes, or the influences that shaped him.
Finn’s exposure to troubled times in Ireland during his youth was a major influence on his later politics and world view. Migrating to Melbourne in 1841, this well-educated man lived for more than fifty years in colonial Melbourne, passionate about his religion, actively engaged with his community while never forgetting the home he had left behind. This book explores the life of this talented man and the ways in which he contributed to the creation of a new society in Melbourne through his writing, his speeches and his leadership of the St Patrick’s Society.
“An important chronicler of early Melbourne, the Irish journalist Edmund Finn has been unjustly neglected. A detailed study of his life and work is overdue, and therefore Dr Rushen’s book is to be welcomed.” Professor Elizabeth Malcolm, FASSA, FRHistS, University of Melbourne

Online Conference: In search of DNA connections
2023-11-25 09:30 - 16:30, 2023-11-24 20:00 - 21:00 | VIC
Online Conference In Search of DNA Connections presented by the Society of Australian Genealogists.
When: Friday 24 November 8.00pm-9.00pm AEDT; Saturday 25 November 9.45am-4.30pm AEDT
Where: Online via zoom
Register: via https://www.sag.org.au/event-5322521
Cost: Members $80; Non-members $120
Join the Society of Australian Genealogists for a virtual conference dedicated to uncovering information and resources about DNA.
The program is available from this link.
Presentations will include using the Leeds Method to sort matches plus more advanced topics such as Y-DNA and mtDNA.
Speakers include:

Martin McDowell
Fiona Brooker
Louise Coakley
Mags Gaulden

This event will commence with a one-hour Friday evening session, followed by further presentations on the Saturday.
This conference will be recorded, so you can attend live or watch later.
Please note that some recordings will only be available for 2 weeks after they are made available. This will be noted on the program where applicable.

Andrew Lemon: 'Fifty years (more or less) as a professional historian: some reflections on surviving outside the academy'
2023-11-24 16:30 - 19:00 | Room 257, Level 1, Old Arts Building, University of Melbourne, Room 257, Level 1, Old Arts Building, University of Melbourne, Carlton, Victoria, 3000, Australia
Andrew Lemon AM, FRHSV is a practising professional historian, a past president of the Royal Historical Society and throughout the 1990s, he was Victorian Editor of the Victorian Historical Journal. He is a former board member of the State Library of Victoria and of the Heritage Council and is a member of the Professional Historians Association (Vic & Tas). After working initially as an archivist, Andrew has published widely from local history and school history to shipwrecks, biography and his three volume History of Australian Thoroughbred Racing. He has won several book awards and in 2012 was a John H. Daniels Fellow at the National Sporting Library and Museum in Virginia. He holds the degrees of BA (Hons), MA, and Doctor of Letters, all from the University of Melbourne. Last year he published his debut historical novel, The Pebbled Beach at Pentecost, based on a true colonial story.

The Menzies Ascendency: Implementing a Liberal Agenda and Consolidating Gains, 1954-1961
2023-11-24 09:30 - 16:30, 2023-11-23 09:30 - 16:30 | VIC
Annual Conference presented by the Robert Menzies Institute
WHEN: Thursday, 23 November 20239:30 am – Friday, 24 November 20234:30 pm
WHERE: Old Quad, Building 150 (Parkville Campus)101 Tin AlleyParkville, VIC, 3052Australia (map)
Click here to book and see full program of topics and speakers
The period from 1954-1961 was a unique moment in Australian political history. With the Federal Opposition torn apart by the Great Labor Split, Prime Minister Robert Menzies skilfully seized a political ascendency that would see him win back-to-back landslide election victories in 1955 and 1958. Enjoying the full backing of his nation, Menzies was faced with a profound opportunity to impose his liberal vision on Australia, and he seized it with both hands. In this, the third of four annual conferences, our speakers will explore the extensive reforms which defined the era, and examine whether it was masterful political navigation or sheer luck which made them possible.
The period would see a flourishing of policy innovation in areas like immigration, healthcare, and above all tertiary education – where the Murray Report reforged and greatly expanded Australia’s university system, making it the cornerstone of an educated and competitive modern nation. The Menzies Government built enduring legacies with the founding of the Reserve Bank and the development of Canberra into a true capital city, while on issues such as nuclear power and Antarctic geopolitics, Australia confidently encountered new frontiers. Menzies’s political mastery perhaps manifested itself in over-confidence as demonstrated by his ill-fated intervention in the Suez Crisis, and the period would close with the narrowest of election victories. Nevertheless, while it lasted, ‘the Menzies Ascendancy’ was a thing to behold.

RIO TINTO IN AUSTRALIA
2023-11-21 17:30 - 19:00 | RHSV Gallery Downstairs, 239 A'Beckett St, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000, Australia
We are delighted that RHSV member and historian, Robert Porter, will be delivering a lecture based on his latest book, Rio Tinto in Australia.

Robert’s lecture will discuss Rio Tinto’s formation and the evolution of its main business activities in Australia. A focus of his lecture will be the initial and ongoing connections of the company with Melbourne and Victoria. After a patchy start in Australia, in 1962, Rio Tinto merged with Consolidated Zinc to form Conzinc Riotinto of Australia (CRA). Under the leadership of legendary mining figure, Sir Maurice Mawby, CRA progressed the development of the aluminium industry in Australia, the establishment of Australia’s export iron ore industry based on the Mount Tom Price deposit in the Pilbara, as well as a major copper operation on the island of Bougainville. The early Australian management saw themselves as contributing to Australia’s post-war development and nation building.
The company faced a range of challenges: its interaction with indigenous populations, including the challenges associated with the Bougainville operation which was ultimately closed following violent insurrection and the onset of prolonged civil disturbance. There were strains in the relations between the Melbourne-based Australian management committed to CRA becoming a majority-owned and increasingly independent Australian resources company, and the requirements of the major shareholder in London. The tensions and strains led to the departure on the eve of CRA’s Australianisation of chief executive and chairman, Sir Rod Carnegie, who had been employed at the age of 37 years direct from a career with McKinsey & Co.
Professor Geoffrey Blainey AC described the book as: ‘a revealing history of the post-war mining boom that changed the nation but also an insight into the politics of big business. The book says much that will be new to historians, commentators and leaders of the mining industry.’
Robert’s career was spent working in corporate roles, including within the resources sector. Over the last few years he has concentrated on researching and writing business histories. His most recent book, Rio Tinto in Australia. The Origins and Formation s of an International Resources Company, 1954–1995, conveys the main features of the initial investment and evolution in Australia of the London-based Rio Tinto group, now one of the largest global resource companies. Robert has written four other books, including a biography of Sir Paul Hasluck. He holds a BA (Hons), MSc (Econ) and PhD and is an accredited professional historian with the Professional Historians Association.
Housekeeping
This event will be hybrid – both delivered in person at the RHSV’s Drill Hall home and via Zoom. For those booking Zoom tickets, the log-in details will be sent to you 24 hours prior to the event.
From 5:30pm to 6pm, as with most RHSV events, we’ll be serving refreshments before the lecture starts at 6pm.
An automatic confirmation email is sent to you on booking – please check your Spam or Junk Mail in-box as these emails often go astray.

CHARLTON GOLDEN GRAINS MUSEUM 50TH ANNIVERSARY
2023-11-19 13:30 - 15:30 | Charlton Golden Grains Museum, 1 High St, Charlton, VIC, 3525, Australia
As part of the 50th anniversary celebrations a new display on the history of Charlton’s Churches, ‘Keeping the Faith’, will be opened followed by afternoon tea. The exhibition will be housed in the former Wesleyan Chapel which has undergone renovations. A special collecting campaign has been underway to find photos and reminiscences for all of Charlton’s Churches including: Sunday School, Weddings, Christenings, Youth Group, Picnics, Minsters, Organists etc
A special ecumenical service will also take place at 10am at the Uniting Church (4-6 Halliday Street, Charlton 3525)

Labassa open day
2023-11-19 10:30 - 16:00 | Labassa, 2 Manor Grove, Caulfield North, Victoria, 3161, Australia
Experience the complex richness of Labassa’s architectural and human history. Although more than 700 people have lived at Labassa, it has miraculously survived with most of its opulent Victorian era decoration intact.
Labassa is open 10:30am to 4pm with last entry at 3:30pm. Pre-purchasing your ticket online is highly recommended.
Guided house tours on the hour from 11am to 3pm and tearoom available. The tower will be open with a limit of 12 people per tour group. Due to the tower’s narrow, steep steps visitors are advised to wear sensible shoes.
Join us for a guided tour or opt for a self-guided tour.
Guided Tour Times:
11am – Interior House Tour
12pm – ‘Who’s been living in this house?’ Tour (Note: this tour goes upstairs)
1pm – Exterior tour
2pm – Interior House Tour
3pm- Interior House Tour
Tower tours: 10:45am, 11.45am, 12.45pm, 1.45pm, 2.45pm, 3.45pm (Limit of 12 people per tour).
Tea room available: 10.30am – 3.30pm.
Please arrive at least 15 minutes before your intended guided tour time. Capacity will be monitored on the day.

CONVICTION POLITICS: A DIGITAL INVESTIGATION OF THE CONVICT ROOTS OF AUSTRALIAN DEMOCRACY
2023-11-18 13:30 - 16:00 | RHSV Gallery Downstairs, 239 A'Beckett St, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000, Australia
This event is organised by the Descendants of Convicts Group Inc (DOCS) together with the RHSV.
Conviction Politics is an international digital history project exploring the impact of radicals and rebels transported as political convicts to Australia on their place of exile, and the patterns of collective resistance by the mass of unfree convict women and women to the exploitation of their forced labour.
In the 18th and 19th centuries, thousands of democratic reformers, rural labour protestors, Irish freedom fighters and revolutionaries were exiled as political prisoners to Britain’s Australian colonies, where Indigenous people opposing dispossession joined them as prisoners. As convicts, they resisted exploitation through inventive solidarity in the face of coercion, and in turn changed the political direction of the colonies.
Conviction Politics traces how these convicts and their ideas helped lay the foundations of egalitarianism, political and social democracy, unions and workers rights and national self-determination in Australia and the UK. Through archival research, data analysis and visualisation, documentary, animation and song, the project is producing an innovative suite of digital content exploring these stories and their contemporary resonance.
Based at Monash University, Conviction Politics collaborates with researchers from universities in Australia, the UK and Ireland, and is partnered with a range of museums, archives, and unions. Join us for the documentary screening and panel discussion afterwards
Project leader, Associate Professor Tony Moore from Monash University, will take us through the project’s discoveries, media and exhibition, including screening a selection of short documentaries. Tony will explain how Conviction Politics overturns the orthodoxy of how we think about convict Australia. The project reveals how Australia’s first ‘unfree’ workforce resisted exploitation and subordination through inventive solidarity in the face of coercion, while a vanguard of rebels, liberal pamphleteers, industrial protestors and radical agitators changed the political direction of the Australian colonies.
Tony Moore is author of Death or Liberty: Rebels and Radicals Transported to Australia 1788-1868 (2010), adapted as a television documentary of the same name (2015), Dancing with Empty Pockets: Australia’s Bohemians since 1860 (2012) and The Barry McKenzie Movies (2005). Tony has had previous careers as a documentary maker at the ABC and academic commissioning editor at Pluto Press and Cambridge University Press.
Afternoon tea will be served at 3pm.
On booking you will be sent an automatically-generated confirmation email – these sometimes go astray so please check your Junk Mail or Spam Mail folder. For those attending on ZOOM you will be sent the ZOOM log-in details 24 hours before the event.

CATALOGUING CLINICS 2023
2023-11-16 11:00 - 12:00 | ZOOM, Join from anywhere in the world
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.
The 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.
The remaining Cataloguing Clinics 2023 will be held at

Thu 16 Nov 11am – 12noon (AEDT)

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Emigration, Dress and Australian Colonial Society, 1820s – 1860s
2023-11-15 13:30 - 15:30 | Heritage Hill Museum and Historic Gardens, 66 McCrae St, Dandenong, Select a State or Province:, 3175, Australia
Join us for this talk as we consider the nature of colonial society and the immigrants experience through the lens of dress. What clothes did people bring with them to start a new life in Australia? How did this match with what they found on arrival?
Presenter Laura Jocic, is a curator and dress historian with expertise in nineteenth and twentieth century Australian and international fashion and textiles.
This event is being run in conjunction with the Heritage Hill Museum and Historic Gardens exhibition Yesteryear: a glimpse into Greater Dandenong’s Past.
An afternoon tea will be provided following the presentation.
Image Credit: Three Women, one in center seated and wearing long dress, other two standing on either side of her and wearing three-quarter-length dresses. c1880-1900, State Library of Victoria.

A Night with Elizabeth Macarthur: Hidden Figure in Australian History
2023-11-14 19:00 - 20:00 | 39 St Edmonds Road, Prahran, VIC 3181, 39 St Edmonds Road, Prahran, VIC, 3181, Australia
🐑 A Night with Elizabeth Macarthur: Hidden Figure in Australian History
Do you enjoy finding out about people history has hidden? So does Michelle Scott Tucker.
She is the author of Elizabeth Macarthur: A Life at the Edge of the World – an engaging yet meticulously researched biography of the woman who established the Australian wool industry, even though her husband got all the credit (Text Publishing 2018). Michelle is also the co-writer, with Torres Strait Islander actor and film producer Aaron Fa’Aoso, of Aaron’s memoir So Far, So Good (Pantera Publishing 2022).
Michelle is renowned as an entertaining and informative speaker. She will talk to us about who Elizabeth was, what she did and why she should be far more well-known as an important Australian historical figure.

ROSS MCMULLIN ON "LIFE SO FULL OF PROMISE"
2023-11-14 17:30 - 19:00 | RHSV Gallery Downstairs, 239 A'Beckett St, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000, Australia
An event with Ross McMullin is always much anticipated. Ross is an award-winning historian and biographer, a renowned storyteller, an entertaining speaker, and a longstanding RHSV member.
His multi-biography Farewell, Dear People was awarded the Prime Minister’s Prize for Australian History, and in his new sequel Life So Full of Promise, Ross has again combined prodigious research and narrative flair in a collection of interwoven family stories about forgotten Australians who had radiant potential.
The rich cast of characters in Life So Full of Promise includes a popular doctor, a brilliant cricketer (Ross played first-grade District cricket in Melbourne), and an exceptionally talented barrister who was a potential prime minister.
With their families and friends also conspicuous in the narratives, Life So Full of Promise is a revealing window into this defining era for Australia. It illuminates what the war was like at home and at the sharp end. Life So Full of Promise emulates Farewell, Dear People in providing insights into the experiences of Australians before, during and after the war, whether they were combatants or civilians, or soldiers’ wives or parents.
Life So Full of Promise has been shortlisted for the Mark & Evette Moran Nib Literary Award. Barry Jones reviewed the book in The Age: “His scholarship is impeccable, he writes like an angel … and his narrative gift is Blaineyesque”.
Ross’s books, including Life so Full of Promise, are available through the RHSV bookshop.
https://rossmcmullin.com.au

Housekeeping
This event will be hybrid – both delivered in person at the RHSV’s Drill Hall home and via Zoom. For those booking Zoom tickets, the log-in details will be sent to you 24 hours prior to the event.
From 5:30pm to 6pm, as with most RHSV events, we’ll be serving refreshments before the lecture starts at 6pm.
An automatic confirmation email is sent to you on booking – please check your Spam or Junk Mail in-box as these emails often go astray.

Middle Park Primary School in the 1970s and a proposal for a mega soccer stadium in Albert Park Reserve
2023-11-13 19:30 - 21:00 | Middle Park Primary School, 192 Richardson St, Middle Park, VIC, 3206, Australia
In an event for the Middle Park and Albert Park History Group, John Stirling will talk about Middle Park Primary School in the 1970s and a proposal for a mega soccer stadium in Albert Park Reserve

MARKETING FORUMS
2023-11-13 12:00 - 13:00 | ZOOM, Join from anywhere in the world
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.
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Mon 13 Nov 2023, 12noon – 1pm AEDT

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Upper Yarra Valley Historical Society: Ride into History
2023-11-12 19:30, 2023-11-11 19:30 | VIC
Join the Upper Yarra Valley Historical Society in their slow paced adults only bicycle ride from Warburton to Yarra Junction along the Warburton Rail Trail and experience snippets of their local settlement history come to life through vignettes performed by Mad Hatter Theatrics and projections of historical images by Little Projector Company. This unique storytelling experience is woven with local characters, events, and anecdotes that will transport you to a different time and place. After a short performance in Warburton you’ll ride to the first stop at Wesburn where a small vignette will take place. From here the ride continues to the Upper Yarra Museum in Yarra Junction where yo will enjoy the last performance followed by hot drinks and sweet treats while enjoying acoustic live music.
Dates: November 11 (Saturday) and November 12 (Sunday), 2023
Tickets: $10 plus ticketing fee of $0.19
Bookings via this link (takes you to Cog Bikes website).
​Start time & location: Meet at 7.30pm for 7.55pm start at Cog Bike Cafe site on the Rail Trail in Warburton
End time & location : Around 10 -10.30pm at the Upper Yarra Museum in Yarra Junction
​This event is offered on two consecutive nights on November 11 & 12, 2023 (same program on both nights). Further information & tickets https://www.upperyarramuseum.org.au/ride-into-history

Collingwood History Walk
2023-11-02 08:00 - 17:00 | VIC
This year’s walk will examine the area bounded by Victoria Parade, Smith Street, Wellington Street and Peel Street. The area was subdivided early in the history of Melbourne’s colonisation and has seen many changes over the years. We will start outside one of Melbourne’s oldest surviving hotels, the Grace Darling, and return there at 4 pm for drinks.
$10 fee, cash only.

CHARTING A COURSE - REFLECTIONS ON 35 YEARS AT THE HELM
2023-10-31 17:00 - 20:00 | RHSV Gallery Downstairs, 239 A'Beckett St, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000, Australia
Melbourne Maritime Heritage Network (MMHN) is delighted to collaborate with the Royal Historical Society of Victoria in presenting this event.
Following the 5pm MMHN AGM, at 6pm the illustrious Patron of MMHN, Dr. Kevin Fewster, will speak on ‘Charting a course – reflections on 35 years at the helm’ during his extraordinary 35 year international career in Maritime Museums including Director of Royal Museums Greenwich (RMG), the world’s largest and most visited maritime museum precinct.
Closer to ‘home’, Kevin was the founding Director of the South Australian Maritime Museum; Director of the Australian National Maritime Museum (ANMM) and of the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney. Kevin will reflect on what are essential elements to consider in a successful maritime museum today and the issues that face such cultural institutions.

Housekeeping
This event will be hybrid – both delivered in person at the RHSV’s Drill Hall home and via Zoom. For those booking Zoom tickets, the log-in details will be sent to you 24 hours prior to the event.
An automatic confirmation email is sent to you on booking – please check your Spam or Junk Mail in-box as these emails often go astray.

This is a History Month event

SHADES OF HAUNTED MELBOURNE
2023-10-30 18:30 - 19:30 | RHSV Officers’ Mess Upstairs, 239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia
A special Halloween event – not to be missed!
Join historians Dr Jo Clyne and Dr David Waldron as they recount tales of haunted Melbourne through a highly original blend of historical research and magical stage illusion.
Tickets for this performance can be booked through Trybooking here: https://www.trybooking.com/CLKOD
Tickets: $20 for RHSV members
$25 for non members

Housekeeping:
Please note that this event is being held in our Officers’ Mess which is on the first floor and only accessible by stairs (there is no lift) so the venue is not fully accessible. It is an in-person event so not accessible on Zoom.

This is a History Month event

St John the Baptist: It’s a wonder it was built at all
2023-10-28 13:30 - 15:00 | VIC
It’s a wonder it was built at all: Talk by author and photographic exhibition
When: 28 October 2023 at 1.30pm
Where: 61 Queens Parade, Clifton Hill
Entry: by donation
RSVP: Contact John Andrews 0439 614 461
On Tuesday 3 October and Sunday 8 October 2023 the church of St. John the Baptist, Queens Parade, Clifton Hill celebrates its consecration centenary. It was the second Catholic parish church in Melbourne to be consecrated. It is considered to be one of the most beautiful Catholic churches in Melbourne.
The Consecration took place on 3 October 1923 with Archbishop Daniel Mannix, Melbourne’s fiesty and sometimes politically controversial archbishop officiating at the elaborate overnight and daytime ceremonies. On Sunday 7 October the parish came together for a celebratory Mass with Mannix and former parish priest, John McCarthy and then Bishop of Sandhurst (Bendigo) officiating. It was followed by a parish celebration and a students’ picnic on the Monday.
The church is an architectural and artistic gem. It took 31 years (1876-1907) to complete, and was heavily influenced through its architect, John Bunn Denny by the ideas of Augustus Pugin, the leader of the Catholic Revival Movement in England. It is equally remarkable that such a grand church should be built in the poor Irish Catholic suburb of Clifton Hill, aided by parishioner and printer, Thomas Edmund Verga who contributed about half of the cost of the building and its interiors. This included its front and rear stained-glass windows, manufactured by John Hardman and Company of Birmingham. Other stained-glass windows on the side walls followed in 1928-29. The church also contains the second largest interwar Fincham organ in Victoria.
A photographic exhibition of the church’s and parish’s history is viewable, 24 September- 29 October when the church is open.
On 28 October at 2pm in the church John will give a talk, ‘It’s a wonder it was built at all’ outlining the history behind the building of the church, its first stained glass windows and the subsequent growth of an active Irish Catholic community centred on their local church. The talk is open to all.
For further information, contact the Consecration Centenary Committee on 0439 614 461 or register your attendance at office@olsc.org.au.
Photo: Queens Parade, July 1893m, Museums Victoria Collections, Item 773214

Chapel Street Walks
2023-10-25 11:00 - 12:00 | 39 St Edmonds Road, Prahran, VIC 3181, 39 St Edmonds Road, Prahran, VIC, 3181, Australia
🏛️ Meet at the PMI Victorian History Library then step into a charming adventure. Discover the tales of yesteryear’s department stores on Chapel Street, Prahran. An all-inclusive experience, perfect for everyone – families, individuals, and even your beloved pets!
The tour will be led by Steve Stefanopoulos OAM, architectural historian, former Mayor of the City of Stonnington and President of the PMI Victorian History Library.
Image: https://stonnington.spydus.com/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/FULL/WPAC/ARCENQ/59432044/22945613,1?FMT=IMG
This is a History Month Event
