MARKETING 101
ZOOM Join from anywhere in the worldChristina Browning, our new RHSV Marketing Manager, brings a wealth of experience to the RHSV - and not just in social media. Christina started her working life as a journalist before seguing into marketing. May 9th: In this free Zoom forum, Christina will take you through building a social media campaign around a special day.
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Labassa Women
Labassa 2 Manor Grove, Caulfield North, Victoria, AustraliaLabassa mansion is hosting an eight-day exhibition celebrating the women who lived there across two centuries. This 8-day exhibition opens on Sunday 1st May with former resident and actor Jane Clifton telling outrageous stories of life at the mansion in the bohemian 1970s. The exhibition will draw on the National Trust’s costume and object collections
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Ghost signs and the Melbourne Circle
Studio 1, Former Channel 9 Building 15 Barnett Way, Richmond, Victoria, AustraliaWith intensive development of urban sites, ghost signs suddenly appear when previous development, which had blocked the view of the signs, is demolished. Nick Gadd has captured many of these nostalgic and historic signs on his website. Almost like the signs and symbols of the past, Nick captures and brings these signs to life. Many
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Weston Bate Oration & RHSV AGM
RHSV Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett St, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaFollowing our AGM at 5pm, we are delighted that Dr Andrew Lemon will present this year's Weston Bate oration, AUSTRALIAN HISTORY AS LITERATURE: AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE AS HISTORY. Andrew contemplates the nature of the divide between the writing of history and the writing of fiction. Our best historians—including the late Weston Bate—are invariably outstanding writers, but why is it that historians are so rarely included when the literary world acclaims the best Australian writers? This lecture looks at the writing of Australian history as literature, and considers why journalists and storytellers customarily outsell academic historians when writing on historical subjects. Does this matter? Should aspiring historians be taught about good writing and literary technique? Has jargon and cliché prevailed in the academic teaching and writing of history?
Make no mistake – Bridges really matter!
Magnet Gallery SC G19 Wharf Street, The District,, Docklands, VICTORIA, Australia A seminar from the Melbourne Maritime Heritage Network Bridges should be acknowledged as critical maritime infrastructure – enabling, connecting or in some cases thwarting! Historically bridges have brought significant economic and social benefit to Melbourne - but not always! For example, the poorly conceived yet dominant Bolte Bridge effectively curtailed Melbourne’s maritime engagement for
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Ina Higgins: and her contribution to women’s horticultural education
ZOOM Join from anywhere in the worldTo replace the cancelled Symposium "Women in Horticulture" which was to be held in conjunction with Friends of Burnley Gardens (FOBG) and the Herb Society of Victoria, AGHS is offering these two planned lectures online instead. FOBG will be organising a launch of the book “Burnley Gardens: their design and the people who loved them”
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Death by Misadventure – a guided walk through Brighton Cemetery
Brighton General Cemetery North Road, Caulfield South, Victoria, AustraliaInquests and newspaper articles tell the stories of train fatalities. Crossing the train tracks at Carrum, Frank Pynn was carefully watching the up train when he and his cordial wagon were was hit by the down train. Unlucky Oswald Ritchie who fell from an electric train near Brighton Beach station as he was trying to retrieve his hat which had blown off, and fell through the open door of a carriage.
Getting Your Family History Published
ZOOM Join from anywhere in the worldPublisher Talk: Getting Your Family History Published Wednesday 25 May, 1 pm to 2 pm Online event using Zoom As part of the South Australian History Festival, Genealogy SA presents Michael Bollen, head publisher at Wakefield Press, a local publisher well known for publishing history books, especially books relating to South Australia. How does this
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Hotham History Project presents a talk by Professor Miles Lewis on Victorian Paint
City of Melbourne Bowls Club 603 - 615 Queensberry St, North Melbourne 3051., North Melbourne, victoria, AustraliaHeritage paint colour controls in Victoria, and to a large extent in Australia, are based mainly upon a document prepared 45 years ago by Miles Lewis and his then research assistant Alison Blake (now Bishop Alison Taylor). Today those controls are substantially unchanged, except for the cumulative inaccuracies which have crept in over time. But
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An historical overview of Australian botanic gardens by Richard Aitken
ZOOM Join from anywhere in the worldExploring Australia’s fine network of botanic gardens had its genesis in the late 18 C, with a government garden on Sydney Cove. Australia’s fine network of botanic gardens had its genesis in the late eighteenth century, with a government garden on Sydney Cove. Since then, and especially in the mid-nineteenth century, this modest beginning has
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