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

Royal Exhibition Building Dome Promenade

Royal Exhibition Building 11 Nicholson Street, Carlton, VIC, Australia

For the first time in 100 years, visitors will have the opportunity to ascend to the base of the Royal Exhibition Building’s majestic dome and experience breathtaking views of the Melbourne skyline. The Royal Exhibition Building Dome Promenade will open to the public from Saturday 29 October 2022. As the first Australian building to be
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ACAHUCH Symposium : Parklife 2022

Glyn Davies Building, University of Melbourne Parkville, VIC, Australia

The landscape of Quor-nóng/Royal Park has been inhabited by First Peoples for millennia. Following colonisation, Royal Park was reserved as a public park with neighbourhoods and institutions constructed on its edges. Park Life seeks to interrogate the impact of institutions such as the university, hospitals, a prison, a major park and a zoo, as well as local precincts. Parkville is a suburb of diverse building types surrounding Royal Park, and home to major Melbourne institutions including the symposium host, the University of Melbourne. Parkville has played a pivotal role in Australian understandings of heritage, memory, commemoration, and dwelling.

HISTORYFEST by Romsey & Lancefield Districts Historical Society

Lancefield Mechanics Institute High Street, Lancefield, VIC, Australia

Connecting Communities The importance of writing local history and heritage Romsey & Lancefield Districts Historical Society will be holding its second annual HistoryFest in November 2022. This event is aimed fairly and squarely at historical societies and their members so do come along and learn from others, and share your knowledge and experience. Eight Historical
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Rhyll: Devonshire Tea at Richardson’s Cottage

Richardson's Cottage Beach Rd, Rhyll, VIC, Australia

World Vision is raising funds by holding a Devonshire Tea event on Sunday 6th November 2022 at historic Richardsons’ Cottage on the foreshore in Rhyll from 2pm - 4.30pm. Come along and enjoy some delicacies and re-live the history of the cottage and the tea rooms that operated in the early 1930’s by Josie Richardson.
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Out of the Madhouse Forum

Library at the Dock 107 Victoria Harbour Promenade, Docklands, Victoria, Australia

Sandy Jeffs, a former inmate of Larundel, who became an advocate for her ‘mad’ comrades and is now a poet of distinction; and Margaret Leggatt, sociologist, occupational therapist and activist for the friends and families of mentally ill people. Larundel Psychiatric Hospital was ‘the madhouse on the edge of town’ – until the 1990s, a
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$10

East Loddon 2022 Remembrance Day Service

Memorial Tree Bears Lagoon Cnr Dalziel and Perry Roads, Bear Lagoon, VIC

A century old memorial tree at Bears Lagoon to be the site of this year's Remembrance Day Service organised by the East Loddon Historical Society Inc. For family descendants and our local communities we should never be allowed to forget the sacrifice that service personnel have given, and continue to give, to Australia. This Remembrance
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Ringwood Primary School celebrates a centenary

Maroondah Federation Estate Greenwood Ave, Ringwood, VIC, Australia

Did you go to Ringwood State School? Celebrate Ringwood State School's centenary this Saturday 12th November from 10am - 4pm. Maroondah Federation Estate, Greenwood Ave, Ringwood. It will be a day of activities, food, coffee, face-paintings, ECB-FM live on site, Channel 31 filming & interviewing throughout day, art exhibitions, a centenary cake, play the games
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EMPERORS IN LILLIPUT: CLEM CHRISTESEN OF MEANJIN & STEPHEN MURRAY-SMITH OF OVERLAND

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

Literary magazine editors used to be rather imperial in style, exercising a great deal of influence in what has always been a rather restricted field: literary culture. Clem Christesen and Stephen Murray-Smith projected real authority as they fought the cultural and political battles of the day.

$10 – $20

Discover Cemeteries at Fawkner Memorial Park

Fawkner Memorial Park 1187 Sydney Road, Fawkner, Victoria, Australia

The Greater Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust (GMCT) invites you to the official launch of our augmented reality app, Discover Cemeteries, at Fawkner Memorial Park. Venue: On site at the Heritage Tearooms opposite the Fawkner Station cemetery entry. Getting there: Catch the train to Fawkner station on the Upfield line - Fawkner Memorial Park was designed to
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