Launch of Kaleidoscope exhibition
RHSV, Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaKaleidoscope is the RHSV's major exhibition in 2022 and it celebrates the women who were crucial in building the organisation from its beginning in 1909. This is biography imagined through the lens of a Kaleidoscope. The viewer is offered fragments of the lives represented here. There is no linear narrative. Each time the kaleidoscope turns, a different story emerges. There are repeating patterns but different emphases and new ways of seeing, new reflections, new refractions. No one story dominates and one story does not fit all.
CONNECTING HISTORICAL SOCIETIES AND PRIMARY SCHOOLS
ZOOM Join from anywhere in the worldIn 2022 the RHSV, along with many other organisations, will be pulling out all stops to celebrate the sesquicentenary of the Education Act 1872. This ground-breaking legislation mandated that primary education in Victoria would be free, secular and compulsory. The Dept of Education is encouraging primary schools to partner with their local historical societies -
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A G L SHAW LECTURE: The Barristers of the Port Phillip District, 1839-1851
RHSV Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett St, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaThe first barristers arrived in Melbourne in 1839, the same year as Charles La Trobe, but only 14 were admitted to practice before 1851. Separation from NSW and the discovery of gold totally transformed the Bar, with fifty new barristers being admitted by 1854. All came from the United Kingdom and brought with them the
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Launch of Analysing Australian History
RHSV Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett St, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaJoin the RHSV and Cambridge University Press for the invite you to attend the launch of, Analysing Australian History, a series of four textbooks for the new Australian History Year 12 Study Design 2022-26
Lighter Than Air – book launch with Helene Rogers
Studio 1, Former Channel 9 Building 15 Barnett Way, Richmond, Victoria, AustraliaThe Richmond & Burnley Historical Society is launching Helene Rogers' book, Lighter Than Air. Fledgling balloonists in nineteenth century Australia realised that their aerial endeavours added little to their pockets, or to science. Re-inventing themselves as showmen and women, they performed daring acrobatics from trapezes and parachutes, touring towns and cities all over the country.
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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. In this free Zoom forum, Christina will take you through building a social media campaign around a special day. So you
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A World of Architectural History
Malaysian Theatre Glyn Davis Building, Masson Road The University of Melbourne Parkville, VIC 3010, Parkville, VIC, AustraliaThis lecture will discuss the preparations and outcomes of the 21st Edition of Sir Banister Fletcher’s Global History of Architecture. This lecture will discuss the preparations and outcomes of the 21st Edition of Sir Banister Fletcher’s Global History of Architecture, in what are two entirely re-written volumes, also available online. It constitutes the most ambitious
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The Life and Art of Penleigh Boyd by Colin Smith
Camden Hotel 414 Hawthorn Road, Caulfield South, VIC, AustraliaColin Smith will be the guest speaker at the Brighton Cemetorian's 2022 AGM. He will speak on The Life and Art of Penleigh Boyd Theodore Penleigh Boyd (15 August 1890 – 27 November 1923) was a British born Australian artist. Penleigh Boyd was a member of the Boyd artistic dynasty: his parents Arthur Merric Boyd (1862–1940) and Emma Minnie
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Prisoners of the Japanese: Personal stories from WW2 service records
ZOOM Join from anywhere in the worldAnzac Day 1942: As Australia stopped to remember the sacrifices of war, over 22,000 Australian service personnel were prisoners of the Japanese, having been recently captured in Malaya, Singapore, Timor and New Guinea. Their families back home waited anxiously for news, which often never came. In this webinar, Patrick Ferry from the National Archives of
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LGBTIQ+ Inclusion in the history of the Australian Defence Force
OnlineAustralian Defence Force policies banned lesbian, gay and bisexual people from serving until November 1992 and transgender people until September 2010. Yet, there is a long history of their service, as the Australian military evolved from an institution that actively persecuted LGBTIQ+ members to one that actively welcomes and values their contributions. Join historian Noah
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