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RHSV wins Community Heritage Grant

November 1, 2019 Rosemary Cameron

The RHSV has been awarded a $14,894 federal Community Heritage Grant to fund museum-standard shelving for our all-important manuscript collection. This is the third and final grant in a three-part process.

The grant was announced at the National Library of Australia in Canberra on October 30.

Grants worth almost $383,000 have been distributed this year to 61 community groups and organisations from around Australia to assist in the identification and preservation of community owned but nationally significant heritage collections.

History Week now HISTORY MONTH

October 28, 2019 Rosemary Cameron

History Week became too big for its boots so, from 2020, the whole of October will become HISTORY MONTH. Start planning your activities now. The Awards Ceremony for the Victorian Community History Awards will continue to be the key event of History Month.

Cheryl Griffin is ‘doing the block’

October 24, 2019 - October 24, 2019 Rosemary Cameron

Cheryl Griffin has delivered another corker of a story to CBD News for their November edition. Cheryl looks closely at an RHSV image of Melbourne swells ‘doing the block’ in Collins Street.

RHSV Slams Proposals to Sanitise QVM

October 18, 2019 Rosemary Cameron

Our submission to the Melbourne City Council opposes discontinuance of roads intended to provide space for new buildings that will radically alter the market’s traditional mode of operation.

Click to read the full submission

And to read the documentation that precedes this submission on QVM and other heritage campaigns click here.

2019 HISTORY AWARDS WINNERS ANNOUNCED

October 14, 2019 - October 16, 2019 Rosemary Cameron

The winners were announce on Mon 14 October 2019 at the Victorian Arts Centre

Click for the full list of winners

HISTORY WEEK SUN 13 – SUN 20 OCT

October 14, 2019 Rosemary Cameron

Do you have a yen to trace your family? A desire to understand just why your home town grew like it did? A craving to understand the development of your favourite sport or your alma mater?

Full program: available here

“The study of the past and telling its stories are critical to our sense of belonging, to our communities and to our shared future.” Opening paragraph of The Value of History Statement,

History Week: Get Involved!

October 3, 2019 - October 3, 2019 Rosemary Cameron

Do you have a yen to trace your family? A desire to understand just why your home town grew like it did? A craving to understand the development of your favourite sport or your alma mater?

“The study of the past and telling its stories are critical to our sense of belonging, to our communities and to our shared future.”

Opening paragraph of The Value of History Statement, History Council of Victoria.

BOOK FAIR RAISES OVER $6,000

October 3, 2019 - October 8, 2019 Rosemary Cameron

The last bargain-hunters are sifting through the remnants of the Book Fair and tomorrow it will disappear so our wonderful Isaac Selby: Historian, Lecturer, Assassin! exhibition can be re-hung.

The Book Fair raised over $6,000 for the RHSV. I’d like to thank all those wonderful donors who gave us books throughout the year (the books were splendidly impressive this year). Without those donations we simply don’t have a Fair (and, as most of the books are sold at just $1,

Traces of pioneers

September 26, 2019 Rosemary Cameron

In this month’s CBD News you can read Cheryl Griffin’s wonderful ode to the Old Melbourne Cemetery which was a rich repository of information about our earliest settlers. Now gone for ever under the car park of QVM. CBD News can be picked up all over the CBD or you can find it online.

Victorian Premier’s History Award shortlist announced

September 20, 2019 - September 24, 2019 Rosemary Cameron

Forty-two community history publications and projects from across Victoria have been shortlisted for the 2019 Victorian Community History Awards and Victorian Premier’s History Award.

400 trees under threat

September 17, 2019 - September 17, 2019 Rosemary Cameron

The feisty RHSV Heritage Committee has been active on many fronts recently with support for Buninyong & District Historical Society’s fight to save 400 trees including old-growth Manna gums and updates on the ongoing Queen Victoria Market campaign. You can read the submissions and more about the Heritage Committee’s work here.

Holsworth Grants Announced

September 17, 2019 Rosemary Cameron

The 8 successful applicants for Holsworth Grants have been announced. The full list can be read here. The Holsworth Local Heritage Trust funds the print publication of history in regional and rural Victoria.

Thoroughly wholesome, absolutely pure.

September 5, 2019 - September 5, 2019 Rosemary Cameron

In the lastest CBD News Cheryl Griffin muses nostalgically about a photo taken in 1900 of a crowd outside Nott’s Confectioners in Collins St. Nott’s boasted his sweets were “thoroughly wholesome, absolutely pure”! Read the full article …

Outside Nott’s confectioners

Chinese delegation visit RHSV on study tour

September 4, 2019 - September 4, 2019 Rosemary Cameron

Today we were delighted to host a delegation from the National Audit Office of the People’s Republic of China who are visiting Australia.

They were intrigued by Richard Broome’s talk on Victoria’s indigenous history and loved the early Victorian legal document which Elisabeth Jackson showed them, from our manuscripts collection, which had some very detailed Chinese calligraphy.

The photos show Professor John Fitzgerald, from our Foundation committee, who is fluent in Chinese chatting over tea,

Too thick to drink

August 22, 2019 - September 5, 2019 Rosemary Cameron

Dr Cheryl Griffin writes a monthly article on some historical aspect of our CBD, prompted by a photo from our Collection. The articles are delightful and worth seeking out. This month’s is all about the Yarra.

Too thick to drink and too thin to plough