Cataloguing Clinic via Zoom with Jillian Hiscock

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Jillian Hiscock, the RHSV Collections Manager, started these cataloguing clinics during the early days of COVID and they suit Zoom very well. The clinics run for an hour from 11am
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Free

Finding Families

Williamstown Library 104 Ferguson St, Williamstown, VIC, Australia

Hobsons Bay Libraries' experienced heritage staff will demonstrate how to search for your ancestors across a variety of online platforms, including Victorian Births Deaths and Marriages records, Ancestry, historic newspapers,
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Free

Discover Our Collections: Heritage @ Williamstown Library

Williamstown Library 104 Ferguson St, Williamstown, VIC, Australia

Williamstown Library is the home base for Hobsons Bay Libraries Heritage Collection, dedicated to preserving the history of Hobsons Bay from historic maps and photographs to newspaper and local books.
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Free

The history of the Box Hill/Burwood Rotary Club

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

As 2021 is the centenary of the formation of Rotary in Australia, it is fitting to hear about the history of the organisation, both nationally and in our local area.
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Researching Aboriginal Family History

Online

Tracing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander family histories poses a unique set of challenges. YPRL is proud to be a partner in the presentation of a  half-day webinar to assist
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STATUES: PUTTING THEM UP, AND PULLING ‘EM DOWN

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

There may be a lull in the statue wars now, but that is because the front has broadened – certainly overseas. This oration shows how statues rose with the nineteenth century, and spread with the growth of empires, not least to Australia. The nature of traditional Australian statuary is considered, along with the questions it implicitly raises. (Comparisons are made with America.)  Statues, it seems, have become lightning conductors for unresolved tensions, the public culture which once sustained them being increasingly subject to segmentation and fracture.  

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