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SUMMARY:Tales from the MacRobertson International Air Races
DESCRIPTION:To celebrate Victoria’s centenary in 1934\, Macpherson Robertson sponsored a great air race from England to Melbourne. There were originally 20 entrants of which only 12 arrived in Melbourne. The British winning entrants took a whisker under 3 days\, the last plane to arrive took some 4 months.\nThe Royal Historical Society of Victoria is mounting an exhibition which takes a close look at the entrants in the races (there were two races run concurrently – a speed race and a handicap race) including the Dutch entrant\, the Uiver. The Uiver (stork) is the most famous of the entries even though it came second. It was forced by bad weather to make an emergency landing in Albury where the locals used the town’s lights to spell A L B U R Y in morse code and then created a make-shift aerodrome on the racetrack using car headlights to con the plane down. Macpherson Robertson always maintained that the Uiver\, a commercial KLM flight that went to Batavia in the Dutch East Indies with a little extra hop to Australia\, came closest to his ideal as Robertson sponsored the race to encourage commercial flight not speed. \nThe first aircraft to finish was the De Havilland DH-88 Comet Grosvenor House\, a specially- designed racing aircraft flown by Charles W. A. Scott and Tom Campbell Black. Both pilots were much feted in Melbourne. Photos show a handsome pair being mobbed by thousands. The adulation didn’t last\, Campbell Black was killed by a plane propeller just 2 years later and Scott suicided. \nHarold Brook was the pilot with the least experience – barely the minimum 100 hours. He had a paying passenger\, the 28-year old Miss Ella Lay\, who knitted her way to Australia. She was a pilot herself and the only woman to travel the full race distance from Mildenhall in England to Melbourne. Ella stayed on in Melbourne\, took up nursing\, and in 1941 enlisted in the Australian Army Nursing Service in the very building where the exhibition is being held (the former Army Medical Corps Drill Hall). Ella died in 2005\, aged 99. The Times printed her obituary. \nThe race generated many more fabulous stories including C. J. “Jimmy” Melrose who at 21 was the youngest pilot and one of the few Australians. Jimmy was funded by his mother and his De Havilland Puss Moth was christened My Hildergarde in her honour. He too died\, too young\, just two years later in a plane crash. \nThe last plane to arrive was piloted by Ray Parer and Godfrey Hemsworth and funded by New Guinea miners. Another entry was owned by well-known Australian pioneer aviator Horrie Miller who at the time was managing director of MacRobertson-Miller Aviation. He engaged James Wood and Don Bennett to fly the race however they came unstuck in Aleppo. As Bennett wrote in his autobiography\, they “… hit the ground with a fair wallop and the undercarriage collapsed; down she went and the nose went in as we whipped over on our back. I was in the tail of the machine and my velocity from one end of the cabin to the other was remarkable. Even more astounding was the degree of “concertina-ing” of my body which took place at the far end.” That was the end of their race.
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/tales-from-the-macrobertson-international-air-races/
LOCATION:RHSV\, Gallery Downstairs\, 239 A'Beckett Street\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
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SUMMARY:No Regard for the Truth : Friendship and kindness. Tragedy and injustice. Rowville’s Italian prisoners of war.
DESCRIPTION:No Regard for the Truth : Friendship and kindness. Tragedy and injustice. Rowville’s Italian prisoners of war.\nIn March 1946\, the war was over. The Italian prisoners of war who had been captured several years earlier in northern Africa were interned in camps around Australia and were waiting to be returned home. One Saturday evening\, the commandant of the Rowville internment camp\, Captain Waterston\, shot and killed a prisoner\, Rodolfo Bartoli\, who he claimed was attempting to escape. What initially appeared to be a straightforward case of an Australian army officer carrying out his duty\, soon appeared to be something else. Allegations of assaults\, reckless firing of weapons\, drunkenness and stolen goods began to emerge. \nWe are delighted that Darren Arnott\, a Melbourne based IT Security consultant will share\, with RHSV members\, his experiences about discovering this story and the details of his research into ‘No Regard for the Truth’ where he delved into military and court archives\, historical police reports\, newspaper articles and personal accounts from former locals who still had memories of the Italians and the camp. He learnt of the brutal treatment of some of the internees and of a romance between the young shooting victim and the daughter of a local farmer which took surprising twist during his research. \nNo Regard for the Truth was shortlisted for the Victorian Community History Awards 2020 and in available in the RHSV bookshop. \nTHIS IS A HISTORY MONTH EVENT: click on the logo for the full program of events\n 
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/no-regard-for-the-truth-friendship-and-kindness-tragedy-and-injustice-rowvilles-italian-prisoners-of-war/
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SUMMARY:Welcome to new RHSV members
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to new RHSV members\nEvery year we like to host an event or two in the Drill Hall\, before one of our lectures\, to welcome our new members. We serve drinks and cheese and 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. \nBecause we weren’t able to host these events last year we have a bit of catching up to do! We’ve scheduled 5 of these events over the coming months and new members are welcome to attend whichever one suits them. Our lectures are usually $5 or $10 for members ($20 for non-members) however\, if you book for a new member event you can attend the following lecture free-of-charge. \nWe’d love to see you at one of these events – please indicate in the RSVPs if you want to attend just the New Member Welcome or the New Member Welcome + Lecture \nPlease note that these events will only go ahead if we are not in lockdown – we really need to be in the Drill Hall to show you what the RHSV is all about. If we are in lockdown we’ll be holding more New Member Welcomes at some point in the future and we’ll contact you again.  \nNew Member lecture 4:30pm – 5:30pm\, drinks continue until just before 6pm. Lecture 6pm – 7pm (includes Q&A). \nThe  remaining lecture is: \nTue 19 Oct: Barbara Minchinton on The Women of Little Lon \nImage caption:  Holy Trinity Church of England\, Bay Street\, Port Melbourne by Samuel Hemming\, 1853\, erected under the supervision of Knight\, Kemp and Kerr\, 1855. RHSV Collection A-52-C. Miles Lewis has used this image in a powerpoint on portable buildings (https://s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/hdp.au.prod.app.vic-engage.files/8515/2418/2642/Lewis_Evidence.pdf)
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/welcome-to-new-rhsv-members-2021-10-19/
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SUMMARY:The Women of Little Lon
DESCRIPTION:The Women of Little Lon: Sex Workers in Nineteenth-Century Melbourne\n\n\n\n\n\n We are delighted that historian\, Barbara Minchinton\, will deliver our History Month lecture on this remarkable but little-known chapter in Melbourne’s history\nSex workers in nineteenth-century Melbourne were judged morally corrupt by the respectable world around them. But theirs was a thriving trade\, with links to the police and political leaders of the day\, and the leading brothels were usually managed by women. \nWhile today a city lane is famously named after Madame Brussels\, the identities of the other ‘flash madams’\, the ‘dressed girls’ who worked for them and the hundreds of women who solicited on the streets of the Little Lon district of Melbourne are not remembered. \nWho were they? What did their daily lives look like? What became of them? Drawing on the findings of recent archaeological excavations\, rare archival material and family records\, historian Barbara Minchinton brings the fascinating world of Little Lon to life. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nBarbara Minchinton is a historian and independent researcher. For several years she collaborated with a team of archaeologists on the interpretation of artefacts from Melbourne’s Little Lon district. She is the author of a number of articles regarding the nineteenth century sex work industry in Little Lon\, and The Women of Little Lon is the culmination of years of research and collaboration. \n\n  \nAttendance and Zoom details \nThis event was originally planned to be delivered both as a live event at the RHSV and through Zoom. However\, now it will be delivered only as a Zoom event.  The log-in details will be sent to you 24 hours before the event. For those attending by Zoom\, the Zoom will start just prior to 6pm. You will have the opportunity too to put questions to Barbara. \n  \n \nThis is a History Month event: click on the logo for the full program of events\n 
URL:https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/the-women-of-little-lon/
LOCATION:RHSV\, Gallery Downstairs\, 239 A'Beckett Street\, Melbourne\, VIC\, 3000\, Australia
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SUMMARY:Bringing your Diggers back to life: a defence service records seminar
DESCRIPTION:Bringing your Diggers back to life: a defence service records seminar\nIn partnership with the National Archives of Australia and the Genealogical Society of Victoria\, the RHSV presents a seminar on defence service records.\nIn this seminar\, Patrick Ferry and other staff from the National Archives’ Victoria State Office will examine the range of resources available to help you discover more about the military service and sacrifice made by members of your family or local community. Key series in the National Archives’ collection will be highlighted\, including WW1 and WW2 service dossiers and Repatriation / Veterans’ Affairs case files\, together with records about civilians during wartime. The seminar will also point you to other valuable sources of information including Unit War Diaries (held by the Australian War Memorial) and Soldier Settlement records (held by PROV). Research methodologies will also be discussed. \nThis seminar will be of great interest to family historians\, local historians\, military history buffs and people with a general interest in learning more about Australia’s priceless military service records. \nPatrick Ferry is State Manager\, Victoria for the National Archives of Australia. Patrick is a professional archivist who is passionate about local history. Patrick is the author of three publications about the wartime service of Pakenham district residents\, including Blood\, Toil Tears and Sweat: Remembering Pakenham & Districts World War 2 diggers 1939-1949 (with Wally Nye)\, which was the winner of the 2020 Local History Project Award\, Victorian Community History Awards. \nThis free seminar is delivered via Zoom. Please register your interest below and Zoom details will be sent to you 24 hours before the event.  \nPlease note\, we are also presenting a seminar by Dr Charles Fahey on 11th November on Victoria’s Soldier Settlement Scheme. Click here for more information. \nImage caption: Service photo of Private Albert Edward Kemp\, who served in France + Belgium in World War 1 and was killed in action in 1917. Courtesy of Museums Victoria website.  \nPLEASE NOTE: this seminar was originally advertised as being on Sat 23 Oct at 2:30pm – it has moved to Fri 22 Oct at 2pm.  \nThis is a History Month event: click on the logo for the full program of events
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