St Kilda Historical Society activities

DIY Walks, a writing competition, fireside chats by Zoom, family history tutorials by Zoom and lots of podcasts - if you are connected to St Kilda there is a lot to do whilst in social isolation.

Walking Port Melbourne

Port Melbourne Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia

There 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, Australia

This 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, Australia

Although 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.

Free

Seminar: Managing Volunteers

Museo Italiano 199 Faraday Street, Carlton, Victoria, Australia

From 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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$45 – $60

A Legal Zoom into St Kilda Cemetery

ZOOM Join from anywhere in the world

Learn 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, Australia

This 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.

$10 – $20

Public Monuments – Contested Histories

ZOOM Join from anywhere in the world

Societies 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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