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Altona Homestead Devonshire Tea

Altona Homestead 128 Queen Street, Altona, Victoria, Australia

The Altona-Laverton Historical Society members and volunteers invite you to drop into the Altona Homestead on the first Sunday of the Month (February to December) to enjoy a serve of our famous Devonshire Tea or Cream Tea or Cornish Tea, anyway you look at them they are delicious.

Stories from and a Brief History of 3AW Radio

39 St Edmonds Road, Prahran, VIC 3181 39 St Edmonds Road, Prahran, VIC, Australia

🎙️ Stories from and a Brief History of 3AW Radio Simon Owens, 3AW's Station Historian, and Co-Host of the Sunday night program Remember When, has some fascinating stories to share.
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Gold Coin Donation

Marketing, promotion and partnerships On-line Seminar

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The Royal Historical Society of Victoria, in partnership with AMaGA Victoria, is pleased to present this seminar focused on marketing, promotion, and partnerships, tailored specifically for volunteer groups. The session
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Free – $10.00

Beyond the Docks: The Oil Rigs Symposium

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

A public forum for changing the way we see and understand ‘Maritime Melbourne and Victoria’
Join ‘Amphibious’ Curator and cultural programmer Valentina Bydanova, partnering with RMIT early career Photographer Jesse Grey, in the Beyond the Docks Symposium to explore the Bass Strait oil rigs and their history as a ‘community landscape’ or, we should say, seascape.

Free

Jazz in the Museum Musical Soiree

Queenscliff Historical Museum presents Jazz in the Museum Musical Soiree    Join us for a Museum tour, 1930s’ jazz musical performances featuring our local community band, Shedding the Blues, and
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MARKETING FORUMS

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Christina Browning, the RHSV Marketing Officer, leads these forums which each month tackle a different aspect of marketing for historical societies - they tend to concentrate on social media as
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Free

The Chipilly Six: Lucus Jordon in Conversation with Ross McMullin

On 9 August 1918, on high ground overlooking the Somme River, an entire British Army Corps was held up by German machine gunners. The battle had raged for 30 hours and more than 2000 Englishmen had fallen. Meanwhile, two Australian sergeants, Jack Hayes and Harold Andrews, went absent without leave and crossed the Somme ahead of the British lines. Gathering weapons and four of their best mates, Hayes and Andrews returned to take on the Germans.

Book launch: My Grandfather’s Clock: Four Centuries of a British-Australian Family, by Graeme Davison

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

A great-aunt's bequest - a 200-year-old grandfather clock - sends historian Graeme Davison on a journey deep into his father's family's past. From their tribal homeland in the Scottish Borders he follows them to the garrison town of Carlisle, from industrial Birmingham to Edwardian Australia, and from the Great War to his own suburban childhood. This is the story of an ordinary family's journey from frontier warfare and dispossession through economic turmoil and emigration to modest prosperity. At each step, we are led to reflect on the puzzles of personal identity and the mystery of time. Based on a lifetime of creative scholarship, My Grandfather's Clock is a moving testament to the power of family history to illuminate the present. 

Free