TOUR: ISLAMIC MUSEUM OF AUSTRALIA

Islamic Museum of Australia 15A Anderson Road, Thornbury, VIC, Australia

Join the RHSV for a curator's tour of the Islamic Museum of Australia, one of Melbourne newest museums. The tour will have special emphasis on the artistic and cultural heritage of Muslims in Australia.
The arrival of Muslim Macassan fisherman from Southern Sulawesi, Indonesia on the Northern Australia coast in the early 1700s marked the beginning of a long-lasting trade relationship between the Macassans and First Nations people. Over time, these communities developed a mutual respect for one another, and shared cultural and religious traditions. Another section of the exhibition pays homage to the Afghan cameleers, highlighting their important contributions to our country’s infrastructure and economy.  

$15

Vandemonians Book Talk

Diamond Valley Library

Join Professor Janet McCalman of the University of Melbourne as she discusses her book Vandemonians: the repressed history of colonial Victoria. This fascinating book examines the stories of Victoria’s convict
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Recurring

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.

A Chinese Family History

Mill Park Library 394 Plenty Road, Mill Park, VIC, Australia

Librarian Jack Chan has had a long-time interest in local and family history and has researched his own Chinese ancestry in Australia. He has documented the history of his own
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George Arden, gentleman drunkard

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

We are delighted that author and historian, Susan Priestley FRHSV, will be delivering this lecture which explores the background and career of editor and author George Arden, whose life compiled by the late P.L. Brown, Geelong and Western District historian, was an entry in the first volume of the Australian Dictionary of Biography (1966). Arden together with his two brothers provide variant exemplars of the lifestyle and widely variant fortunes encountered when gentlemanly emigrants, along with the multitude of others, took the colonial plunge into Britain’s nineteenth century world, thereby illuminating the idiosyncrasies of multi-coloured humanity.

$5.00 – $10.00

Soldiers and Aliens Book Talk

Ivanhoe Library & Cultural Hub 275 Upper Heidleberg Road, Ivanhoe, Select a Country:

Local author June Factor will discuss her book Soldiers and aliens: men in the Australian Army’s Employment Companies during World War II, which details the forgotten history of the remarkable
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MARKETING FORUMS

ZOOM Join from anywhere in the world

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

CATALOGUING CLINICS 2023

ZOOM Join from anywhere in the world

Join Jillian Hiscock, the RHSV Collections Manager, each month is this informative and easy-going Zoom forum on all aspects of cataloguing collections for historical societies. Jillian has a different topic
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Free

George Weickhardt (1906-2000) and the pioneer engineers of Victoria

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

This presentation, by Ken McInnes, will bring to the fore the research by George Weickhardt (1906-2000), and in particular his research on the pioneer engineers of Victoria and their contributions to the early developments in the colony. George was an active member of Engineering Heritage Victoria (EHV) in the 1980s, and presented and published many papers on engineering history. He also produced a well-received series of articles about pioneer engineers published in The Victorian Historical Journal and his unpublished research papers and manuscripts are held in the archives at the Royal Historical Society of Victoria (RHSV). This overview of the life, the works and contributions of the pioneer engineers, as researched and described in George’s published papers and recently catalogued archives, is relevant to all who are interested in the history of Victoria.

$10.00 – $20.00

History of Australian Motherhood

Eltham Library

It is Family History Month! Join us for a fascinating panel discussion on the history of Australian mothers and how motherhood has changed over time. Dr. Carla Pascoe Leahy, author
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