Gotcha! Concrete Prints from the McEwans Celebrity Pavement
City Gallery 110 Swanston Street, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaWho remembers the McEwans celebrity pavement?
Between 1972 and 1994, scores of celebrities had their hand- and footprints immortalised in cement at the entrance of the McEwans hardware store in Bourke Street. Shopping for a hammer or a hair-dryer, you’d step in the prints of actors, musicians, sportspeople, writers, dancers, politicians, an astronaut, a racehorse – even an operatic dog.
Curated by Robyn Annear, 'Gotcha!' presents 40 of the surviving prints from the McEwans pavement, together with stories of the celebrities who made them and newspaper images that capture the mood of the times.
RHSV AGM + 2024 Weston Bate Oration: Dr Fiona Gatt
RHSV Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett St, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaThe forgotten class? Shopkeepers of nineteenth-century Melbourne
Shopkeepers played a vital role in the functioning of nineteenth-century Melbourne society. They owned the businesses where residents obtained goods, from basic daily needs to the flights and fancies of an emerging modern consumer culture. Echoes of their presence live on in the shopfronts and main shopping streets. This lecture investigates and compares the shopkeepers who operated in three distinct, representative suburbs of nineteenth-century Melbourne: genteel Malvern, inner urban North Melbourne and industrial Footscray. In doing so it provides a genuine comparative cross-section of the urban retail trade in this period and reveals the subtle differences between these localities in terms of the prestige and identity ascribed to shopkeepers within the socio-economic fabric of these local societies. Yet across all three towns (or suburbs), shopkeepers held an important and unique role, one that cannot be understood through the same lens as the working class or middle class.
Making Public Histories: Energy Transitions: Historicising Australia’s Nuclear Debate – 5pm (webinar)
ZOOM Join from anywhere in the worldAustralia is in the midst of an energy transition, but specific policies and decisions around the shift to more renewable forms of energy production, storage and use have become the
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The Great Orange Peel Panic: and other stories from Melbourne
39 St Edmonds Road, Prahran, VIC 3181 39 St Edmonds Road, Prahran, VIC, Australia🍊 The Great Orange Peel Panic: and other stories from Melbourne Did you know around the 1860's civic reprobates who discarded orange peel in the streets of Melbourne, risked life
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Out of the Straight-Jacket: the art of anti-colonial history
OnlinePROFESSIONAL HISTORIANS AUSTRALIA PROUDLY INVITES YOU TO THE 2024 WILSON HISTORY ORATION Out of the Straight-Jacket: the art of anti-colonial history An oration by Dr Rachel Buchanan From swamp to
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‘Watandar, My Countryman’ screening
Shrine of Remembrance Birdwood Ave, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaJoin us at the Shrine for a screening of the heart-warming and eye-opening documentary film, Watandar, My Countryman. The documentary follows photographer and Human Rights Activist Muzafar Ali, who in
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‘Watandar, My Countryman’ screening
Shrine of Remembrance Birdwood Ave, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaJoin us at the Shrine for a screening of the heart-warming and eye-opening documentary film, Watandar, My Countryman. The documentary follows photographer and Human Rights Activist Muzafar Ali, who in
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Stories from ASIO’s files
39 St Edmonds Road, Prahran, VIC 3181 39 St Edmonds Road, Prahran, VIC, Australia🕵🏽 Stories from ASIO’s files Step into the clandestine world of intrigue and mystery! Unveil the enigmatic lives of a doctor, a teacher, a gardener, and an undercover operative, as
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Our Yarra River
East Melbourne Library 122 George St, East Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaEast Melbourne Historical Society Presents "Our Yarra River" Presenter: Ian Penrose Ian is a former senior executive in the coal mining and gas industries, but after 27 years he switched his
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Incinerator History Tours
Incinerator Gallery 180 Holmes Road, Aberfeldie, VIC, AustraliaDiscover the captivating history of the Essendon incinerator on our monthly volunteer-led history tour. Strategically located near parkland and residences, this iconic structure emerged in 1929, revolutionising waste disposal was
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