We hope that you will join us for this informative and entertaining lecture. To register, please contact Desley Reid on: info@kewhistoricalsociety.org.au, before the event, and you will be sent the Zoom login details.

Kew Historical Society’s Dickinson Lecture, to be given on Wednesday 14 October at 8pm, will be held this year via Zoom. It will be on Victorian cemeteries, and the speaker, Dr. Celestina Sagazio, is an absolute authority on this subject. She is a consultant historian, author and tour guide. She was Historian and Manager of Cultural Heritage of the Southern Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust and previously worked as an historian for the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) for many years. Celestina is a recognised authority on the history and conservation of cemeteries in Victoria. She is the author/editor of a number of publications, including Cemeteries: Our Heritage, Conserving Our Cemeteries, The National Trust Research Manual and Women’s Melbourne. Celestina was also a contributor to the valuable publication In Memoriam, which is a history of public cemeteries in Victoria. Celestina is an experienced tour guide and organiser of the popular night tours of the Melbourne General Cemetery and an informative public speaker.