KALEIDOSCOPE
RHSV Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett St, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaThis exhibition is biography imagined through the lens of a Kaleidoscope. The viewer is offered fragments of the lives represented here. There is no linear narrative. Each time the kaleidoscope turns, a different story emerges. There are repeating patterns but different emphases and new ways of seeing, new reflections, new refractions. No one story dominates and one story does not fit all.
AGM and Speaker Series talk – Researching a Roll of Honour
Join via ZoomThe Glen Eira Historical Society AGM will be held via Zoom on Wednesday 27 July at 7.30pm. Following the AGM (approx 20 mins), will be a talk by author Jenny
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Cataloguing Clinics 2022
ZOOM Join from anywhere in the worldFree 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.
Open House weekend: guided historical tours of Brighton Cemetery
Brighton General Cemetery North Road, Caulfield South, Victoria, AustraliaThe Brighton Cemetery is over 160 years old and full of notable people that made Melbourne memorable: Sir John Monash; Carlo Catani - Civil Engineer; Charles Ogg, Architect; George Frederick Ballantyne, Architect; and William Guilfoyle, Landscape Gardener and Botanist are but a few of the many people who lie resting within the walls of the cemetery.
OPEN HOUSE MELBOURNE
Royal Historical Society of Victoria 239 A'Beckett St, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaOn Sunday 31st of July, as part of Open House Melbourne, we will be offering free guided tours of the Australian Army Medical Corps Drill Hall which is now home to the RHSV and several performing arts companies. Our wonderful building is an art deco masterpiece built in 1938 as Australia and the rest of the world readied themselves for another world war.
Celebrating 150 Years of State Schooling in Victoria
Watsonia Library, 4-6 Ibbottson Street, Watsonia 4-6 Ibbottson Street,, Watsonia, VIC, AustraliaIt is Family History Month at Yarra Plenty Regional Library. The 150th anniversary of State Schooling in Victoria provides fresh opportunities for family, school and local historians. Some type of
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‘Re-Living the Early Days’: Memory, childhood and self-indigenisation in Hotham/North Melbourne.
City of Melbourne Bowls Club 603 - 615 Queensberry St, North Melbourne 3051., North Melbourne, victoria, AustraliaThis talk will analyse an archive of letters, written in 1934–5 during the centenary celebrations of Melbourne, by adults who were children in the 1860s and 70s in Hotham. Through
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Writing Migrant Family History
Mill Park Library 394 Plenty Road, Mill Park, VIC, AustraliaIt's Family History Month at Yarra Plenty Regional Library. Daniela Zannoni was born in northern Italy and migrated to Australia when she was three years old. The idea to write
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MARKETING 101
ZOOM Join from anywhere in the worldIn August Christina will discuss how to create different types of social media posts for your collections: a practical guide from A to B. These forums have become wonderful idea-generators
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It Was the Best of Times… 2022 Bruce Turner Presentation
Prahran Mechanics Institute 39 St Edmonds Road, Prahran, VIC, AustraliaRoss Campbell traces the story of his lifetime involvement in cinema and films throughout Melbourne. From growing up two streets away from The Camden and witnessing the unique quality of
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