Victorian History Events
JOSEPH PANTON, Police Magistrate, Goldfields Commissioner and Artist
Emerald Hill Library and Heritage Centre 195 Bank Street, SOUTH MELBOURNE, VICTORIA, AustraliaFRIENDS 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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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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Whitehorse Heritage Week Exhibition & Talks
Box Hill Town Hall, lower hall 1022 Whitehorse Road, Box Hill, Select one, AustraliaVisit 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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Whitehorse Heritage Week Exhibition & Talks
Box Hill Town Hall, lower hall 1022 Whitehorse Road, Box Hill, Select one, AustraliaVisit 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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Medicos & Misadventures Cemetery Tour
Box Hill Cemetery 395 Middleborough Road, Box Hill, VIC, AustraliaAs 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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Trivia Night – What’s Up Doc?
St Peter’s Church hall 1038 Whitehorse Road, Box Hill, Vic, AustraliaTest the health of your brain cells and the extent of your trivia knowledge with our quiz master Rev Shane Hubner, and help raise funds for the digitization of the Box Hill Reporter so all can read it online at Trove, the National Library’s website. Team and individual prizes to be won. This event is
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History of Emergency Medicine.
Bert Lewis Room, first floor, Box Hill Library 1040 Whitehorse Road, Box Hill, Select one, AustraliaDr Edward Brentnall OAM joined Box Hill Hospital in 1975 and was a major player in the evolution of emergency medicine following the introduction of Medicare and an increased demand for hospital services. This talk is part of the Whitehorse Heritage Week activities organised by the Box Hill Historical Society. No booking necessary.
Sunday Talk with the La Trobe Society
Mueller Hall, Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens Birdwood Avenue, Melbourne, AustraliaCHARLES HOTSON EBDEN : VICTORIA'S FIRST AUDITOR-GENERAL Speaker: Carolyn Brown, President Black Rock House Inc. Includes afternoon tea. All welcome. Bookings essentail
Blue Lake: Finding Dudley Flats and the West Melbourne Swamp.
North Melbourne Library 66 Errol Street, North Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaTalk by David Sornig – Blue Lake: Finding Dudley Flats and the West Melbourne Swamp. In Blue Lake, David Sornig examines how the 8km-square zone to the west of central Melbourne became the city’s blind spot. Once a fertile wetland with a large blue saltwater lagoon, it passed through various incarnations: from boneyards and rubbish
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Living on Mallee Country – Deep Time to 1900
State Library of Victoria Entry 3, Village Roadshow Theatre, La Trobe Street, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaRHSV President Emeritus Professor Richard Broome is delivering the 2019 History Council of Victoria's Annual Lecture. Mallee country being semi-arid scrub country has made living upon it difficult for humans but not other living things. This lecture will explore how mallee country was used by Aboriginal people from Deep Time to the pastoral era and
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