Victorian History Events
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, AustraliaVera 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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Oral history interviewing for beginners: training
ZOOM Join from anywhere in the worldLearn 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.
Altona Homestead Devonshire Tea
Altona Homestead 128 Queen Street, Altona, Victoria, AustraliaThe 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.
Tahbilk Winery: Explorers Way tourist drive launch
Tahbilk Winery 254 O'Neils Road, Tabilk, Vic, AustraliaTahbilk Winery has generously offered their Wetlands View Restaurant to host the launch of the Explorers Way tourist drive and brochure, a project of Nagambie Historical Society, in collaboration with the Strathbogie Shire. The Explorers Way revives the Major Mitchell Bicentennial Trail through the Shire, from Mitchellstown to Violet Town. It then travels, in reverse, the tracks of Hume and Hovell, returning through Euroa and Longwood to Avenel. The drive visits every cairn and memorial to the explorers in those areas, and the map brochure details other points of interest in each town. Roads less travelled have been used for the drive to highlight the beauty of the Shire, away from the freeways; long arching tunnels of eucalypts, golden pastures with stands of ancient trees, wooden bridges and tree-lined creeks, with the blue of the ranges always in the distance.
East Melbourne: The Men who went to War
East Melbourne Library 122 George St, East Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaIn 2014, Major-General Mike O’Brien gave us a list of men with a connection to East Melbourne who had volunteered for the 1st World War. As a result of enthusiastic
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Walking tour: Princes Hill, Carlton
Historical Walks in Carlton These walks are run by the Princes Hill Community Centre in conjunction with the Carlton Community History Group. To register, contact Princes Hill Community Centre: www.princeshill.org.au
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Fashion in the Age of Elegance 1840-1900
Villa Alba 44 Walmer St, Kew, VIC, AustraliaIn a foreign climate and environment, how did European women adapt to living in rural Victoria and the emerging suburbs of Melbourne? Explore and delight in the opulent tastes and
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Fashion in the Age of Elegance 1840-1900
Villa Alba 44 Walmer St, Kew, VIC, AustraliaIn a foreign climate and environment, how did European women adapt to living in rural Victoria and the emerging suburbs of Melbourne? Explore and delight in the opulent tastes and
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Immigrant Women in the Age of Elegance: A lecture by Dr Liz Rushen AM
Villa Alba 44 Walmer St, Kew, VIC, AustraliaDuring the 1830s and 1840s, thousands of women were encouraged to migrate to the Australian colonies. Liz will describe how they managed the translocation process and created settled, sometimes elegant,
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