Looking Back, Looking Forward. Summer Fun in Yarra Plenty
Eltham Library Community Gallery 1 Panther Place, Eltham, Victoria, Australia5 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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Launch of A Guide to Historic St Kilda
Readings St Kilda 112 Acland St, St Kilda, VICTORIA, AustraliaWhere 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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RHSV Christmas lunch for volunteers
Radisson on Flagstaff Gardens 380 William St, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaFor our volunteers and staff to celebrate a wonderful year working together at the RHSV.
Launch: Locating Australian Literary Memory
RHSV, Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaBrigid 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.
ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW. MODULE 6: MAKING COLLECTIONS ACCESSIBLE
RHSV ZOOM by Invitation , AustraliaThe RHSV is offering a series of 6 linked workshops which cover cataloguing and digitisation. This series of workshops starts with basic concepts and builds in complexity. We have spaced
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Exhibition launch: The Swamp Vanishes
RHSV, Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaBefore European settlers arrived in the Port Phillip district, a large wetland that lay between the Yarra River and the Moonee Ponds Creek sustained the indigenous people and the cultural traditions of the Kulin nation. While the wetland had initially been described in terms of beauty, within a few short years the swamp was noisome and reviled, and talk began of draining and reclamation. This exhibition traces the how a significant wetland vanished from sight.
Workshop: Born Digital Documents
RHSV ZOOM by Invitation , AustraliaPresented by the Royal Historical Society of Victoria and Victorian Collections, this hands-on workshop provides an introduction to the principles of acquiring, storing, cataloguing and caring for born-digital material. This
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Seminar: EARLY MELBOURNE SUBURBS 1835-1880
RHSV ZOOM by Invitation , AustraliaThe RHSV and the Genealogical Society of Victoria are delighted to co-present this full-day seminar which will give participants a deep understanding of the forces and influences which have shaped
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PEOPLE AND CHANGES TO TAY CREGGAN
Tay Creggan Strathcona Baptist Girls Grammar 30 Yarra Street, Hawthorn, VIC, AustraliaAn opportunity to see inside the magnificient Tay Creggan, in Yarra Street, Hawthorn. This heritage
home is now Strathcona year 9 campus. Diana Little will be talking about PEOPLE AND CHANGES TO TAY CREGGAN and a book on Yarra Street by Elizabeth Love and Jennifer Bowen, will also be launched on this day.
Gippsland: Cataloguing and Digitisation series of six workshops
Federation University Gippsland Campus Library Northways Road, Churchill, VIC, AustraliaThe RHSV is offering a series of 6 linked workshops (three Saturdays over three months) which cover cataloguing and digitisation. This series of workshops is progressive, starting with basic concepts
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