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Sunday Talk with the La Trobe Society

Mueller Hall, Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens Birdwood Avenue, Melbourne, Australia

'THE PARSON'S WIFE'': IN SEARCH OF HARRIET BEAN, DAUGHTER OF EMPIRE Speaker : Loreen Chambers, Vice-President of the C J La Trobe Society Harriet Battley was born to a military family in Jamaica which moved to the Cape Colony where she was orphaned at 6 years of age. She later shared the changing fortunes of
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$10

Annual General Meeting

Our AGM will be held at the Old Lilydale Court House, 3rd August 2019 at 1pm

Leonardo Da Vinci. Science Before Science.

Museo Italiano 199 Faraday Street, Carlton, Victoria, Australia

The Embassy of Italy in Canberra, the Consulate General of Italy in Melbourne, the Italian Cultural Institute Melbourne, the Dante Alighieri Society Melbourne and CO.AS.IT. Melbourne have the pleasure of inviting you to “Leonardo Da Vinci. Science Before Science”, a lecture by Professor Fiorenzo Galli, Director General of the Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della
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FREE

Vandemonians in North Melbourne: our Local Convict Past.

North Melbourne Library 66 Errol Street, North Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Guest Speaker: Professor Janet McCalman AC – Vandemonians in North Melbourne: our Local Convict Past. Janet is an eminent scholar in her field of Australian social history, with particular expertise and reputation in the history of health and medicine. Janet is a superb communicator and scholar whose most notable accomplishments have been in making the
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COLONIAL MERCHANTS OF MELBOURNE TOUR, ST KILDA CEMETERY

St Kilda Cemetery Dandenong Road & Hotham Street, St Kilda East, Vic, Australia

Sunday 25 August 2019 at 2.00pm. Come and join the Friends of St Kilda Cemetery on this terrific walk around the cemetery visiting the graves of some of Melbourne's famous merchants...a wonderful tour led by Claire. Cost $15 including afternoon tea. Meet at main gates Dandenong Road. Bookings email info@foskc.org or tel 0422379053

$15

JOSEPH PANTON, Police Magistrate, Goldfields Commissioner and Artist

Emerald Hill Library and Heritage Centre 195 Bank Street, SOUTH MELBOURNE, VICTORIA, Australia

FRIENDS OF ST KILDA CEMETERY AGM AND TALK Come and join us at the Friends of St Kilda Cemetery AGM and hear Susan Grant speak on Joseph Panton, Police Magistrate, Goldfields Commissioner and artist. Susan Grant is a committee member of the Flinders District Historical Society and the Port Phillip Pioneer Group. Her fascination with
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Free

Ills, Pills & Hospitals Bus Tour

As part of the Whitehorse Healthy Heritage Week, the Box Hill and Surrey Hills Historical Societies are conducting a bus tour of the sites of former and current medical services in the Box Hill/Surrey Hills area. The tour includes a visit and refreshments at Hethersett, a former WW1 rehabilitation hospital, now part of the PLC
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$15 – $20

Whitehorse Heritage Week Exhibition & Talks

Box Hill Town Hall, lower hall 1022 Whitehorse Road, Box Hill, Select one, Australia

Visit our exhibition, be entertained and informed by our speakers, and check out our databases. See historic items loaned by Bolton Clarke (the Royal District Nursing Service), Box Hill Hospital, Red Cross, St John Ambulance and Kew Historical Society. Were any of your family members struck down with influenza in 1919? Historian Mary Sheehan will
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Gold coin donation

Whitehorse Heritage Week Exhibition & Talks

Box Hill Town Hall, lower hall 1022 Whitehorse Road, Box Hill, Select one, Australia

Visit our exhibition, be entertained and informed by our speakers, and check out our databases. See historic items loaned by Bolton Clarke (the Royal District Nursing Service), Box Hill Hospital, Red Cross, St John Ambulance and Kew Historical Society. Were any of your family members struck down with an infectious disease in the past? Diphtheria,
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Gold coin donation

Medicos & Misadventures Cemetery Tour

Box Hill Cemetery 395 Middleborough Road, Box Hill, VIC, Australia

As part of the Whitehorse Heritage Week, the Box Hill and Surrey Hills Historical Societies are conducting a tour of the Box Hill Cemetery. Visit the graves of one of the first osteopaths in Australia; learn about a victim of the 1919 flu epidemic; hear about some well-loved doctors and nurses, and the details of
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$15 – $20