Box Hill Historical Society kicks off 2024 with a talk by prominent literary critic, journalist and author Helen Elliott. Helen spent some time working in the Box Hill Library, commencing in 1965. She will speak of her memories of Box Hill. Copies of her memoir, Eleven Letters to You, will be available for sale at
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🚇 Melbourne’s Great Metropolitan Railways – With A Nod Over The Border A little over one hundred years ago, Australia’s first electrified suburban railways commenced operations. Melbourne led the way when electric trains ran between Essendon and Sandringham on 28 May 1919. Sydney followed suit seven years later when its first electric train ran between
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Emeritus Professor Richard Broome AM, will be talking to Malvern Historical Society members and friends on Wednesday 21 February about the second edition of his double award-winning history, ABORIGINAL VICTORIANS. A HISTORY SINCE 1800. Published by Allen & Unwin. 

BOOK LAUNCH  The Goldfields Re-Imagined; militant miners, miscreants and poor Mary Anne By Marjorie Theobald  This is a lively and engaging series of chapters about women, convicts, shysters, aristocrats and politicians in the Castlemaine goldrush. There is a piece about Castlemaine's remarkable but little known Gold Commissioner (then Warden) Captain John Edward Newell Bull, and his attempts
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Nature, Our Medicine: a presentation by Dr Dimity Williams Dr Dimity Williams is a mother, nature lover, and family doctor. She has worked as a Family Physician for 25 years in inner Melbourne on Wurundjeri Country, and enjoys looking after the whole person from pre-conception to old age. Dimity has completed additional training in obstetrics, paediatrics
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In the HCV's first in-person author talk of 2024, Dr Yves Rees will be in-conversation with Dr Alecia Simmonds, award-winning historian and author of Courting: An Intimate History of Love and the Law (La Trobe University Press, 2023). Courting is a history of love turned sour: the story of jilted lovers who claimed legal compensation
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Join us for this year’s International Women’s Day as Sovereign Hill Museums Association explores this year’s theme, Count Her In, and look to the past to explore pathways to greater economic inclusion for women and girls everywhere. When gold was discovered in Victoria in 1851 women flocked to the Ballarat goldfields to try their hands
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2024 McIntyre Lecture -Kew Historical Society Inc FAILED AMBITIONS: A HISTORY OF KEW COTTAGES by Dr Lee-Ann Monk & Dr David Henderson Opened in 1887, Kew Cottages was Australia’s first purpose built institution for people with intellectual disabilities. Contemporaries considered it a ‘distinct advance on anything yet done for the feebleminded children in Australia’. Five
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