Guided Walking Tour of Historical Flagstaff Gardens
Royal Historical Society of Victoria 239 A'Beckett St, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaJoin expert tour guides from the Royal Historical Society of Victoria - the historical society for the City of Melbourne - on a guided walk through the beautiful Flagstaff Gardens
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Curator’s talk: Yarra Birrarung Artists, Writers and the River exhibition
RHSV Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett St, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaJoin the curator, Dr Judith Buckrich, of our current exhibition Yarra Birrarung: Artists, Writers and the River in a behind-the-scenes talk about the exhibition. The exhibition is an illustrated history of life on the Yarra. Through the lens of artists and writers, the exhibition explores how life has flourished on the river, including recreation, industry and land use, as well as infrastructure, natural history and social history.
AGL Shaw Lecture: La Trobe, Redcoats and the Mounted Police
RHSV Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett St, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaOn 1st October 1839, the newly appointed Superintendent of the Port Phillip District, Charles La Trobe, came ashore in Melbourne for the first time. He was greeted by William Lonsdale, who had been sent to the district as de facto superintendent, and Police Magistrate in late 1836. Lonsdale, a recently retired officer of the 4th Regiment (King's Own) had come to Port Phillip with a small 'garrison' of an Ensign and 30 men from the same regiment. He forged a close relationship with La Trobe over the coming years even though La Trobe was distinctly non-military. While neither had direct command of the 'garrison', which reported to HQ in Sydney, the soldiers had an important role in providing the ultimate, mostly symbolic, Imperial underpinning of La Trobe's authority.
CATALOGUING CLINICS 2025
ZOOM Join from anywhere in the worldJoin Jillian Hiscock, the RHSV Collections Manager, each month in this informative and easy-going Zoom forum on all aspects of cataloguing collections for historical societies. Jillian has a different topic
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Housing, Heritage, Density: Vibrant neighbourhoods or Hong Kong without the view?
RHSV Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett St, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaIn the context of a major revamp of the Victorian planning system, this seminar asks how we can make positive use of heritage as we plan to house more people. How can we modify Plan Victoria to make full use of heritage as anchor and focus for new neighbourhoods?
Curator’s talk: Yarra Birrarung Artists, Writers and the River exhibition
RHSV Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett St, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaJoin the curator, Dr Judith Buckrich, of our current exhibition Yarra Birrarung: Artists, Writers and the River in a behind-the-scenes talk about the exhibition. The exhibition is an illustrated history of life on the Yarra. Through the lens of artists and writers, the exhibition explores how life has flourished on the river, including recreation, industry and land use, as well as infrastructure, natural history and social history.
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