1000 babies can’t be wrong!

Victorian Archives Centre 99 Shiel Street, North Melbourne, VIC, Australia

In January 1961, 50 mothers marched through the Victorian town of Healesville demanding their doctor be reinstated to the local hospital. Their placards declared '1000 Babies Can't Be Wrong'. These
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WRITING HISTORY GROUP

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Dr Cheryl Griffin leads this group which has been meeting since 2020. This group is for people who are tackling writing a history project or two and want a sounding
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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.

Book launch at Elwood: Enchanted Beneath the Bluff

Elwood Bowls Club 170 Glenhuntly Road, Brighton, VIC, Australia

Authors Heather Arnold and Isaac Hermann invite you to the launch of their book, Enchanted Beneath the Bluff, Agnes & Geraldine’s Pursuit of Elwood’s Elusive Black Diamonds. Within a place
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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 Wilson History Oration INUNDATED: FLOODS, HISTORY AND HIGH WATER An oration by Dr Margaret Cook

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Join the Professional Historians Association to hear eminent environmental historian Dr Margaret Cook at the second annual Wilson History Oration, environmental historian, Dr Margaret Cook will explore the ways history can engage with the public, the media, other professions and policy makers. In discussing her work on floods, she will highlight how her
role and training as a public historian shapes her scholarship and historical practice. Join us as we consider these themes during one of our greatest crises in history: the climate emergency.

Book launch: Failed Ambitions Kew Cottages and Changing Ideas of Intellectual Disabilities

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

La Trobe University and the Royal Historical Society of Victoria invite you to the launch of FAILED AMBITIONS: KEW COTTAGES AND CHANGING IDEAS OF INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY
written by Lee-Ann Monk and David Henderson with Christine Bigby, Richard Broome and Katie Holmes
Published by Monash University Publishing

Free