When COVID-19 hit Melbourne harder than a runaway tram, our lives changed – literally overnight. Photographer Jude van Daalen and editor Belinda Jackson join us to talk about their experience capturing Melbourne's lockdown through 'Together Apart: Life in Lockdown', a beautiful, black-and-white coffee table book featuring 60 interviews and portraits of people in the Hobsons
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Drinks for our new members who have joined in 2020 and 2021: the staff give new members a background briefing on the RHSV and its treasures. So you'll learn about our Collection from Jillian Hiscock, our Collections Manager, and Helen Stitt who looks after our huge images collection and our EO, Rosemary Cameron, will outline all the other membership benefits and how you can make the most of your membership. New members are then invited to stay for that night's lecture.

Miles Lewis's presentation will look at why Australia's large collection of portable buildings should be nominated as a group for UNESCO World Heritage Listing. Portable buildings, today referred to as prefabricated, were imported in larger numbers to Australia than to any other part of the world during the nineteenth century. They were made not merely of timber and iron, but of oilcloth, slate, zinc, papier mâché, and ‘portable brick’.  nominated as a group for World Heritage Listing.