Victorian History Events
Melbourne – A Great Maritime City
Swanston Hall, Melbourne Town Hall 90 - 130 Swanston Street, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaMelbourne 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, AustraliaHave 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
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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.
Bonegilla Migrant Experience: Virtual Tour Launch
The Cube 118 Hovell St, Wodonga, VIC, AustraliaAuthors 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, AustraliaOn 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
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Those Creative Liardets
Port Melbourne Town Hall 333 Bay Street, Port Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaWe 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
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Explorations Series – Living with the Hume Dam, 1919-2019
Commerical Club 618 Dean Street, Albury, NSW, AustraliaIn 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.
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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
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The La Trobes’ Music
La Trobe's Cottage cnr Birdwood Avenue and Dallas Brooks Drive, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaThe 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
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Looking Back, Looking Forward. Summer Fun in Yarra Plenty
Eltham Library Community Gallery 1 Panther Place, Eltham, Victoria, Australia5 December 2019 - 6 January 2020 Historical photographs and original artworks are exhibited side by side in this celebration of all things summer - picnics, swimming, boating, horsing around,
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