Walking Port Melbourne
Port Melbourne Port Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaThere are many ways, real and virtual, to reflect on Anzac Day in Port Melbourne. Explore our Port Melbourne First World War Centenary site. Find out who enlisted from any Port street
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AMaGA Workshop: Caring for Collections: Storage
RMIT Design Archive 154 Victoria St, Carlton, VIC, AustraliaThis workshop will guide participants through space maximising, cost effective, logistical and practical tips to help re-organise their collection store. Includes a tour of the store at the RMIT Design
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Zoom Bookclub: Richard Broome’s Aboriginal Victorians
RHSV, Gordon Moffatt Room 239 A'Beckett St, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaAlthough our book club is very new we have set an extremely high bar in that we've had great discussions with the authors every time. And June will be no different. Our choice for June is Richard Broome's Aboriginal Victorians and we are delighted that Richard has agreed to join us. This book is a fascinating and sometimes horrifying story of Aborigines in Victoria since white settlement, from one of Australia's leading historians. Early settlers saw Victoria and its rolling grasslands as Australia felix happy south land a prize left for Englishmen by God. However, for its original inhabitants this country was home and life, not to be relinquished without a fierce struggle.
Seminar: Managing Volunteers
Museo Italiano 199 Faraday Street, Carlton, Victoria, AustraliaFrom attracting younger volunteers to succession planning this seminar will cover how to recruit volunteers, how to train them, how to manage, and how to keep them. Learn from those
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A Legal Zoom into St Kilda Cemetery
ZOOM Join from anywhere in the worldLearn about some famous legal entities, including Sir Archibald and Alfred Deakin, former PM, and James Liddell Purves, an ardent Australian federalist, who are buried in St Kilda cemetery and have an opportunity to quiz the barrister presenters about the legal luminaries interred there.
Workshop: Victorian Collections
Melbourne Museum 11 Nicholson St, Carlton, VIC, AustraliaThis hands-on workshop will guide you through the process of cataloguing on the Victorian Collections system and cover basic principles of collection management, object handling and digitisation.
RHSV AGM: resumption following an adjournment
RHSV ZOOM by Invitation , AustraliaFor those who attended our AGM on Tuesday 26 May you will know that our meeting was adjourned as the audited financial reports were found to have some errors. Those
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Public Monuments – Contested Histories
ZOOM Join from anywhere in the worldSocieties have always used statues and other monuments as ways of both recognising and contesting power and eminence. In Australia, as everywhere else, there is public debate over whether and
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ZOOM BOOKCLUB: Brenda Niall’s Friends and Rivals: Four Great Australian Writers: Barbara Baynton, Ethel Turner, Nettie Palmer, Henry Handel Richardson
RHSV, Gordon Moffatt Room 239 A'Beckett St, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaJoin respected biographer, Brenda Niall, in talking about four Australian women writing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—a time when stories of bush heroism and mateship abounded, a
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Victorian Museums and Galleries Awards
State Library of Victoria Entry 3, Village Roadshow Theatre, La Trobe Street, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaCelebrate the amazing achievements of the Victorian museum and gallery sector with friends and colleagues. Generously supported by the State Library of Victoria and hosted in their Conversation Quarter, which
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