RHSV, Gordon Moffatt Room, 239 A'Beckett St
Melbourne, VIC 3000 Australia + Google Map

This will be the inaugural meeting of our History Bookclub. And the first book chosen is Chloe Hooper's The Arsonist: A mind on fire.  The bookclub will focus on Victorian history but there may be little deviations. It will be moderated at first but it is planned for it to be self-sufficient. We will organise occasional author visits and guest speakers. The group size will be capped. There will be monthly meetings - currently planned for the 2nd Tuesday of…

RHSV, Gordon Moffatt Room, 239 A'Beckett St
Melbourne, VIC 3000 Australia + Google Map

We are thrilled that Professor Cassandra Pybus, author of our chosen book this month, Truganini, will be joining our book club for a discussion. The book club is now a ZOOM book club so we will be convening through video-conferencing. We can't pour you a glass of red but we can have a lively engaged conversation.

RHSV, Gordon Moffatt Room, 239 A'Beckett St
Melbourne, VIC 3000 Australia + Google Map

We are delighted that Jill Giese, author of The Maddest Place on Earth will be joining our bookclub for this discussion. The bookclub is now a ZOOM bookclub so we will be convening through video-conferencing. We can't pour you a glass of red but we can have a lively engaged conversation.

RHSV, Gordon Moffatt Room, 239 A'Beckett St
Melbourne, VIC 3000 Australia + Google Map

Although our book club is very new we have set an extremely high bar in that we've had great discussions with the authors every time. And June will be no different. Our choice for June is Richard Broome's Aboriginal Victorians and we are delighted that Richard has agreed to join us. This book is a fascinating and sometimes horrifying story of Aborigines in Victoria since white settlement, from one of Australia's leading historians. Early settlers saw Victoria and its rolling grasslands as Australia felix happy south land a prize left for Englishmen by God. However, for its original inhabitants this country was home and life, not to be relinquished without a fierce struggle.

RHSV, Gordon Moffatt Room, 239 A'Beckett St
Melbourne, VIC 3000 Australia + Google Map

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…