An evening with the author of The  Simonsens of St Kilda

The Channel, Arts Centre Melbourne St Kilda Road Terrace, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

An event presented by Theatre Heritage Australia in association with Arts Centre Melbourne, is bound to be of interest to St Kilda history buffs. Roger Neill is a UK-based arts historian.
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Connecting With Boeing’s Australian Heritage

RAAF Association 24-36 Camberwell Rd, Hawthorn, VIC, Australia

Speaker: Annie Flodin Boeing Historical Services is responsible for preserving and promoting Boeing history. The team oversees the Boeing Archives and supports a number of teams and individuals both within
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Oral history interviewing for beginners: training

ZOOM Join from anywhere in the world

Learn the basics of oral history interviewing from two of Australia's most experienced oral history trainers, Sarah Rood and Al Thomson
This is an online workshop, conducted via Zoom.

National Trust Vintage Clothing Sale 2023

North Magdelan Laundry Abbotsford Convent, 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, Australia

Shop vintage and designer clothing from the late 1800s to the present day. It’s time to mark your Melbourne fashion calendar, the iconic National Trust Vintage Clothing Sale is returning
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Writers on Campus series – Writing the Past

La Trobe University Plenty Road, Bundoora, VIC, Australia

‘Good history is a high-wire gravity-defying act of balance and grace,’ Tom Griffiths wrote recently, describing historians as writers who, ‘have to forsake their own world for a period – and then, somehow, find their way back.’ In our first session of Writers on Campus for 2023 we speak with two historians who are adept at walking that high-wire, and at time travel. Come hear two of La Trobe’s most acclaimed historians, Judith Brett and Katie Holmes, discuss why they do what they do, and how they approach the work and craft of making history, in conversation with Kelly Gardiner

Vera Deakin – Search for the Missing by Carole Woods

Multi Cultural Hub 506 Elizabeth St, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Vera Deakin, daughter of former Prime Minister Alfred Deakin, rallied to the British imperial cause in 1915 by assuming a leadership role in the fledgling Australian Red Cross Society. Aged
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$10

Recurring

Oral history interviewing for beginners: training

ZOOM Join from anywhere in the world

Learn the basics of oral history interviewing from two of Australia's most experienced oral history trainers, Sarah Rood and Al Thomson
This is an online workshop, conducted via Zoom.

Recurring

Altona Homestead Devonshire Tea

Altona Homestead 128 Queen Street, Altona, Victoria, Australia

The Altona-Laverton Historical Society members and volunteers invite you to drop into the Altona Homestead on the first Sunday of the Month (February to December) to enjoy a serve of our famous Devonshire Tea or Cream Tea or Cornish Tea, anyway you look at them they are delicious.