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Melbourne – A Great Maritime City

Swanston Hall, Melbourne Town Hall 90 - 130 Swanston Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Melbourne Maritime Heritage Network invites all those interested to their inaugural AGM. This event, we believe, marks a turning-point in relation to the due recognition of our marvelous maritime sector.The Melbourne Maritime Heritage Network was formed to focus attention on our neglected maritime heritage and to ensure that Melbourne’s marvelous maritime legacy may be rightly celebrated and sustained. 

Tour – The Streets Where We Live – Cheltenham Pioneer Cemetery

Cheltenham Pioneer Cemetery Charman Road, Cheltenham, Victoria, Australia

Have you ever wondered where our street names come from? Many are named after local settlers and dignitaries who are buried at the Cheltenham Pioneer historic cemetery. Some of the streets we will look at - Crawford, Barrett, Charles, Edward and Booker Streets Cheltenham; Comport, Beaumaris; Cullinane, Black Rock; Kingston Road, Moorabbin; Tootal Road Dingley;
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$10 – $15

Walk into history

Bendigo Historical Society offers a different walk every month. In November they look at Hunter House and surrounds. Meet at Grimsby Mill, 35 Will St Bendigo.

$5

Bonegilla Migrant Experience: Virtual Tour Launch

The Cube 118 Hovell St, Wodonga, VIC, Australia

Authors Paul Grover and Bruce Pennay will introduce a new self-guided 3D virtual tour and showcase innovative history investigations on the new Investigating Bonegilla website.

Congress for International Cooperation and Disarmament  (CICD) celebrates 60 years

Unitarian Peace Memorial Church 110 Grey St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

On 10 November 2019 CICD will celebrate 60 years of active campaigning on peace and nuclear disarmament, social justice and much more… We’d like to invite you to celebrate this with us at our anniversary function. So, please join us as we continue to fight for peace and to Ban the Bomb! Speakers include: Joan Coxsedge: anti
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Those Creative Liardets

Port Melbourne Town Hall 333 Bay Street, Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia

We welcome and encourage you to come and celebrate the 180th anniversary of Wilbraham and Caroline Liardet's arrival to the shores of 'The Beach' - later Sandridge (Port Melbourne). Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation Society is proud to present a collection of beautiful artworks and creative pieces from some of their descendants. This exhibition celebrates
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Free

Explorations Series – Living with the Hume Dam, 1919-2019

Commerical Club 618 Dean Street, Albury, NSW, Australia

In 1919 work began on Hume Dam with celebration and acclaim. When it was completed in 1936 it was hailed as an engineering and political achievement, indeed, a nation-building project. How do we understand its history and legacy now in 2019? Join river system and dam managers, environmentalists, historians, photographers and musicians as they share
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Walk into history

Bendigo Historical Society offers different guided walking tours every month. In December it will be: Beehive / Allan's Walk / Stock Exchange Meet at Pall Mall entrance of the Beehive building, Pall Mall, Bendigo

$5

The La Trobes’ Music

La Trobe's Cottage cnr Birdwood Avenue and Dallas Brooks Drive, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

The La Trobes’ Music: celebrate the role music played in the life of the La Trobe family while they lived at 'Jolimont'. Musicians will perform the music that would have echoed around 'Jolimont' in the time of the La Trobe family. • the piano sonatas composed by La Trobe’s father Christian Ignatius • a song
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$4 – $12

Launch of A Guide to Historic St Kilda

Readings St Kilda 112 Acland St, St Kilda, VICTORIA, Australia

Where was the alpaca paddock? Who has the Palais chandelier? Was there a Banksy painting in a laneway? Join author, David Willis for the launch of his latest book, A Guide to Historic St Kilda on Tuesday 10 December at 6pm at Readings, 112 Acland St. RSVP: stkildapress@outlook.com

Free