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Richard Broome on local ABC with Andrew Hansen

January 9, 2020 - January 9, 2020 Rosemary Cameron

While you were still snoozing at 6:20am Richard Broome, our President, was busy chatting to Andrew Hansen (of Chaser fame) on local ABC radio about Melbourne’s Twenty Decades, our latest publication, and the website is close to meltdown with book orders. ABC listeners are quick on the draw!

If you’d like to listen to the interview:
https://www.abc.net.au/…/progr…/breakfast/breakfast/11848484 (the interview is about 4 mins 20 seconds into the podcast).

If you still haven’t bought your copy (and don’t be the only person in Melbourne without one) click on the link:
https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/…/melbournes-twenty-dec…/

Fire Salvage

January 7, 2020 Rosemary Cameron

Follow this link to our resources website page on Disaster Management. There are links to excellent information and videos on how to salvage items from collections after a fire or flood. There are also case-studies and chronologies on how disaster responses unfold. We hope our affiliated societies never have to put this into action but good planning, good information and good examples are our friends in difficult times.

Not a night owl? Listen to 3AW podcast.

December 2, 2019 - January 9, 2020 Rosemary Cameron

If you’re usually tucked up in bed early on a Sunday night & missed our president, Richard Broome, chewing the fat with the 3AW Sunday Night Team, here is a link to the podcast. (Scroll forward to 1:02:04 for Richard’s Interview).

Richard comes on around 1:02:04 & is chatting about our latest publication, Melbourne’s Twenty Decades.

Thanks to everyone who has popped in today to pick up their copies,

Cheryl Griffin visits a Melbourne Christmas circa 1930

November 28, 2019 - November 28, 2019 Rosemary Cameron

In the latest edition of CBD News Cheryl Griffin uses a 1930 image from the RHSV collection of Little Bourke Street and Myer to launch into a Christmas reverie.

Heritage Committee speaks against Melb City Council plans

November 26, 2019 - November 26, 2019 Rosemary Cameron

In a busy month for the RHSV Heritage Committee they have continued the campaign to save the cultural heritage of the Queen Victoria Market and, at a public meeting on 19 November, the committee chair, Charles Sowerwine, spoke out against City of Melbourne Council plans for the market. On the 1st of November a submission was made re Market Square and on 16 October a submission was made on the proposed discontinuance of part of Franklin Street and part of Queen Street,

Launch speeches for Mallee Country and Melbourne’s Twenty Decades

November 22, 2019 - November 22, 2019 Rosemary Cameron

Did you miss our two great launches? You can read the launch speeches here.

Tom Griffiths launches Mallee Country: Land, People, History by Richard Broome, Charles Fahey, Andrea Gaynor and Katie Holmes.

Stuart Macintyre launches Melbourne’s Twenty Decades edited by Richard Broome, Richard Barnden, Elisabeth Jackson and Judith Smart.

And you can buy the books here:

Mallee Country: Land, People, History

Melbourne’s Twenty Decades

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,

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.