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Colonial Australia Trivia Night

Online

Calling all Colonial Australia enthusiasts to show off your knowledge!   It is with great pleasure for members of Grattan Street Press to announce that all our books in Colonial Australian Popular Fiction series are now available in eBook formats. To celebrate the ebook launch, we are happy to invite you to our big night of online
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BOOK LAUNCH –– RADICALS: REMEMBERING THE SIXITES BY MEREDITH BURGMANN AND NADIA WHEATLEY

Victorian Trades Hall 54 Victoria Street, Carlton, Victoria, Australia

Launched be First Nations icon, Dr Gary Foley backed by sixties activists Margaret Roadknight, Peter Batchelor, Arthur Dent (Albert Langer) & Margaret Reynolds. Short speeches followed by refreshments and book signing. Solidarity Hall, Victorian Trades Hall   Please RSVP here: MCKELLINSTITUTE Email Marketing - (activehosted.com) Organised by Labour History Melbourne, the Australian Society for the
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Phillip Island & District Historical Society lunch & meeting

Phillip Island RSL 225-243 Thompson Ave, Cowes, VIC, Australia

Do you want to find out more or get involved with the Phillip Island & District Historical Society? It is a great opportunity for potential new members to have a taste of the society - the lunch is an informal setting ‒ just to chat and share our history. Their next General Meeting will be a
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Exodus from Vienna

Victorian Archives Centre 99 Shiel Street, North Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Following the 1938 annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany, many members of Vienna’s vibrant Jewish community sought safe havens overseas to escape growing persecution. Amongst them were Michael and Regine Weiss and their family. Their story, as told through records held by the National Archives of Australia and other information provided by their descendants, reveals much about Australia’s attitudes towards Jewish refugees during these dark days.

Free

MARKETING 101

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Christina Browning, our new RHSV Marketing Manager, brings a wealth of experience to the RHSV - and not just in social media. Christina started her working life as a journalist before seguing into marketing. The forums are low-key and they not recorded. You can bring your questions and problems and you can also ask Christina
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Free

Cataloguing Clinics 2022

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Free monthly cataloguing clinics via Zoom. The clinics run for an hour from 11am – 12noon on the 4th Thursday of each month. It is a relaxed gathering of people who are finding their way through the intricacies of cataloguing material in historical collections which, as we all know, fall between a library and a museum with sometimes a bit of art gallery thrown in.

Free

Major Harry Shaw: pioneer aviator of Port Melbourne

Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation Society looks forward to seeing you at the meeting on Tuesday when Tim Harding will speak on the topic of Major Harry Shaw: pioneer aviator of Port Melbourne. Major Harry Turner Shaw OBE (1889-1973) was an Australian pioneer aviator, both in wartime and peace. During the 1920s, he had an
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The Rise and Fall of the Iron Bridge

RHSV Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett St, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

In June we are thrilled that Miles Lewis will be returning to the RHSV, in partnership with Engineering Heritage Victoria to talk about Iron Bridges. The earliest cast iron bridges imitated those in timber or stone, because there was no established idea of what an iron bridge should be like, and most of them were simple arches. But over the next century wrought iron, and then steel, became important bridge-building materials.  The arch bridge was joined by the suspension bridge, the box girder, the parallel-chorded girder, and even more elaborate forms.  And bridges fabricated in Europe were sent across the world to places like Latin America, Japan, and India.  Exported bridges faced special problems - the cost and difficulty of transporting the components, the lack of skilled labour at the site, and unexpected foundation problems and hydrological conditions. These prefabricated bridges will be the main focus of the presentation.

$10 – $20.00

The Edwardian Garden – golden and delicious: Special online lecture by Caroline Holmes.

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The Edwardian Garden - golden and delicious:  Special online lecture by renowned UK Garden Historian, Caroline Holmes. Gardens of a golden afternoon are glimpsed in black and white photographs and nostalgic cottage paintings. The Mediterranean inspired the architecture of Harold Peto’s designs and the colours in Gertrude Jekyll’s early paintings and later plantings. Peto’s richest
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WONDERS, CURIOS AND THE UNSEEN

Hume Global Learning Centre Sunbury 44 Macedon Street, Sunbury, VIC, Australia

Wonders, Curios and the Unseen is an exhibition of curious images, objects and artworks drawn from historical and community collections based in Hume. Throughout the ages, people have collected images, objects and artworks that represent not only themselves and their own culture, but also the wider world – its wonders, curiosities and precious items. Historically, items were collected, categorised and housed in people's homes for private viewings, until eventually transitioning to being available for public viewing.