Open Day at La Trobe’s Cottge

La Trobe's Cottage cnr Birdwood Avenue and Dallas Brooks Drive, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Spend your afternoon in the beautiful Domain, with a guided tour of the home of our first governor Charles Joseph La Trobe and his family. You will be able to
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$5

FRIENDS OF LA TROBE’S COTTAGE ANNUAL LECTURE

RHSV, Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

C J La Trobe: Jolimont plantsman Guest Speaker: Helen Botham Garden history researcher, author of La Trobe’s Jolimont: a walk round my garden, and coordinator La Trobe’s Cottage management team
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Cataloguing Clinic via Zoom with Jillian Hiscock

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At the 27 May Clinic, Jillian will revisit the process of book cataloguing, both published and unpublished material. What is the information that should be captured and what is the
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Free

Ern Latchford: his WWI adventures in western Europe, Persia and Russia.

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A Zoom event. In late 1918, thousands of Australian soldiers, exhausted and scarred by war in Europe, began to head home. However, one ANZAC headed the wrong way, toward more conflict and risk in vast and frozen Siberia, thousands of miles from his fiancée waiting on the family farm in Western Victoria. This is the story of Ernest Latchford MBE MC, told through his articulate, observant letters home from three very distinct theatres of war, western Europe, Persia and Russia.

Free

Up the (Gardiners) Creek: a brief history of Kooyong Koot

Bert Lewis Room, first floor, Box Hill Library 1040 Whitehorse Road, Box Hill, Select one, Australia

Dr Gary Presland, FRHSV, and President of the Society, has done a particular study of the natural history of the Melbourne area. He will speak about one of the prime
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Gold coin donation appreciated

Ferries of Melbourne: Past, Present, Future – Good, Better, Best?

Library at the Dock 107 Victoria Harbour Promenade, Docklands, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne’s ferries have delivered significant social and economic benefit to our community in the past. Today ferries remain a woefully under-developed transport and tourism option. The opportunity to expand ferry services around this state and in this city is great.