Art exhibition: Iconic Footscray

Footscray Connectivity Centre 47 Paisley St, Footscray, VIC

Iconic Footscray is a colourful celebration of Footscray and surrounds, featuring illustrations by local graphic designer Susan Fitzgerald. The exhibition features much-loved and landmark businesses, past and present, including Footscray
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THE WWI BATTLEFIELDS OF VERDUN

Ellis Cottage 10 Nillumbik Square, Diamond Creek, VIC, Australia

Nillumbik Historical Society invites you to a presentation and talk, The WWI Battlefields of Verdun, by Terry Phillips at 2pm Sunday 16 March 
Terry has visited the battlefields of France and Belgium for many years. He is a military history expert who regularly gives talks and presentations to community groups and schools. The presentation will be followed by a light afternoon tea

Feminists to felons: exhibiting women’s history

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

Each year, to celebrate Women's History Month, the RHSV offers our Women's History lecture, part of our Distinguished Lecture series. Museums in the 1970s were largely masculine preserves, staffed almost
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Get Tickets $10.00 – $20.00

The World of Mab Grimwade

Prahran Mechanics Institute 39 St Edmonds Road, Prahran, VIC, Australia

Born into a genteel family of pastoralists and investors in colonial Victoria, Mabel Louise Kelly (1887–1973), or ‘Mab’ to those who knew her, would grow up to make an enormous
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Louise Lovely’s Labassa

Labassa 2 Manor Grove, Caulfield North, Victoria, Australia

Session 1: 6pm - 7.30pm Session 2: 8pm - 9.30pm Film pioneer Louise Lovely was Australia’s most successful actress in Hollywood’s early silent era and Labassa’s most celebrated resident of
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Engineering Heritage Victoria: Matthew Churchward

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

Matthew Churchward, Senior Curator, Engineering and Transport at Museums Victoria will be delivering this lecture which is our first in partnership with Engineering Heritage Victoria in 2025. Matthew says on
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$10.00 – $20.00

CATALOGUING CLINICS 2025

ZOOM Join from anywhere in the world

Join Jillian Hiscock, the RHSV Collections Manager, each month in this informative and easy-going Zoom forum on all aspects of cataloguing collections for historical societies. Jillian has a different topic
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PMI Library Book Sale: April 2025

Prahran Mechanics Institute 39 St Edmonds Road, Prahran, VIC, Australia

After our success last year, we again have market stalls joining us for our bi-annual big book sale! We have 10+ stalls joining us, so you know it will be
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How to Record a Painful History

Prahran Mechanics Institute 39 St Edmonds Road, Prahran, VIC, Australia

Join us for a not-to-be-missed discussion on recording and sharing the truths of a colonial past. Aunty Fay Stewart-Muir and Marguerita Stephens will share their experience of collaborating across cultures
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