Those Creative Liardets

Port Melbourne Town Hall 333 Bay Street, Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia

We welcome and encourage you to come and celebrate the 180th anniversary of Wilbraham and Caroline Liardet's arrival to the shores of 'The Beach' - later Sandridge (Port Melbourne). Port
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Free

Walk into history

Bendigo Historical Society offers different guided walking tours every month. In December it will be: Beehive / Allan's Walk / Stock Exchange Meet at Pall Mall entrance of the Beehive
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$5

The La Trobes’ Music

La Trobe's Cottage cnr Birdwood Avenue and Dallas Brooks Drive, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

The La Trobes’ Music: celebrate the role music played in the life of the La Trobe family while they lived at 'Jolimont'. Musicians will perform the music that would have
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$4 – $12

Specialist history tour: Melbourne Observatory

Melbourne Observatory Birdwood Avenue, Royal Botanic Gardens, VIC, Australia

This event booked out in less than 24 hours! We hope to organise more tours in the New Year so keep an eye out for further announcements. The RHSV is
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$25

Jack Wetherly under the microscope

RHSV ZOOM by Invitation , Australia

We are delighted to present a talk by Catherine Gill who has been volunteering at the RHSV. Catherine writes, "As part of my recently completed Masters in Cultural Materials Conservation,
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Free

Looking Back, Looking Forward. Summer Fun in Yarra Plenty

Eltham Library Community Gallery 1 Panther Place, Eltham, Victoria, Australia

5 December 2019 - 6 January 2020 Historical photographs and original artworks are exhibited side by side in this celebration of all things summer - picnics, swimming, boating, horsing around,
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Free

Launch of A Guide to Historic St Kilda

Readings St Kilda 112 Acland St, St Kilda, VICTORIA, Australia

Where was the alpaca paddock? Who has the Palais chandelier? Was there a Banksy painting in a laneway? Join author, David Willis for the launch of his latest book, A
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Free

RHSV Christmas lunch for volunteers

Radisson on Flagstaff Gardens 380 William St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

For our volunteers and staff to celebrate a wonderful year working together at the RHSV.  

Free

Launch: Locating Australian Literary Memory

RHSV, Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Brigid Magner's Locating Australian Literary Memory explores the cultural meanings suffusing local literary commemorations; orientated around eleven authors – Adam Lindsay Gordon, Joseph Furphy, Henry Handel Richardson, Henry Lawson, A. B. ‘Banjo’ Paterson, Nan Chauncy, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Eleanor Dark, P. L. Travers, Kylie Tennant and David Unaipon.

Free