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.
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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.
read more...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 …
read more...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,
read more...Join us for a very different and very convivial history event, Fri 13 Sep 5:30pm.
Our hosts, David Dunstan and Ron Leslie, know their wine and their history and will be guiding us through both.
There will be a talk by David and a tasting of six wines organised by Ron, book-ended with some mood-lightening Prosecco.
More information and bookings.
read more...We are delighted that Jessica Scott has joined the RHSV team today as Marketing Co-ordinator. Jessica will be working on Monday and Wednesday and will be focusing on RHSV’s social media and reaching out to that large world of history enthusiasts and experts.
read more...Congratulations to Dr Andrew Lemon AM FRHSV
Andrew Lemon has been honoured, becoming a Member of the Order of Australia for services to community history and the racing industry, in the Queen’s Birthday list of honours.
Andrew Lemon has written sixteen books, four of which have won prizes, in subjects ranging from local history, education, sport and biography, his most recent being The Master Gardener (2018) on L. R Garnett, a principal of Geelong Grammar and a noted garden and environmental writer for The Age.
read more...On 29 May the Heritage Committee of the RHSV made a major submission to the Heritage Council of Victoria regarding planned amendments by the City of Yarra to Design and Development Overlays covering historic strip shopping centres. The RHSV has also been lobbying individual Councillors. We become aware, whilst preparing our submission, that the same approach was being applied not just by the City of Yarra but throughout the inner and middle suburbs of Melbourne.
read more...The Heritage Council of Victoria is currently reviewing arrangements for local heritage. On behalf of the Council, the RHSV surveyed its member societies, asking their thoughts on the current state of protection for heritage. We received 113 substantial responses. To learn more, read the report.
read more...Grants of up to $2,000 are available for the publication of any specific or general local history or natural history in rural and regional Victoria. More info on our website
read more...In CBD News Prof Charles Sowerwine, Chair of the RHSV’s Heritage Committee, labels the Royal Society of Victoria naive with its plan for an ultra skinny tower block facing the Royal Exhibition Building. Read more on P6, CBD News. http://cbdnews.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/CBD51.pdf
read more...Yarra Trams have requested the RHSV’s help to revitalise and rewrite the script for the City Circle tourism tram…
read more...The RHSV strongly supports the Executive Director’s recommendation for inclusion of Federation Square in the Victorian Heritage Register.
read more...The grant is to engage and train a Digital Co-ordinator to work with 4 historical societies which are all in areas affected by the 2009 bushfires…
read more...The Corkman Hotel saga ends with a complete victory for the developers. But the seeds of that victory were in the contradiction between the heritage overlay that was supposed to protect it and the planning scheme which encouraged developers to put up a 40 metre tower on the site! Read the RHSV statement on this appalling saga here.
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