Melbourne’s Great Metropolitan Railways

39 St Edmonds Road, Prahran, VIC 3181 39 St Edmonds Road, Prahran, VIC, Australia

🚇 Melbourne’s Great Metropolitan Railways – With A Nod Over The Border A little over one hundred years ago, Australia’s first electrified suburban railways commenced operations. Melbourne led the way
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Gold Coin Entry

Aboriginal Victorians with Richard Broome

Malvern Town Hall Corner High Street and Glenferrie Road Malvern, Melbourne, Australia

Emeritus Professor Richard Broome AM, will be talking to Malvern Historical Society members and friends on Wednesday 21 February about the second edition of his double award-winning history, ABORIGINAL VICTORIANS. A HISTORY SINCE 1800. Published by Allen & Unwin. 

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CATALOGUING CLINICS 2024

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Join Jillian Hiscock, the RHSV Collections Manager, each month in this informative and easy-going Zoom forum on all aspects of cataloguing collections for historical societies. In 2024's first Cataloguing Clinic for the year, Jillian will talk about collection management, what you keep or don’t keep, when you catalogue material as an archive or a collection and any issues around the actual collection. Jillian has a different topic each month and is happy to be guided by those who attend as to what they would like covered in upcoming clinics. Bring your questions (no matter the topic) - this is an interactive space where questions are encouraged. The RHSV does not endorse any particular cataloguing software - we believe it is horses for courses - and Jillian will talk about issues that impact on cataloguing whether you are using cataloguing cards or software.

Free

Book Launch: The Goldfields Re-Imagined by Marjorie Theobald

Market Building, 44 Mostyn Street, Castlemaine 44 Mostyn Street, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia

BOOK LAUNCH  The Goldfields Re-Imagined; militant miners, miscreants and poor Mary Anne By Marjorie Theobald  This is a lively and engaging series of chapters about women, convicts, shysters, aristocrats and
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BOOK LAUNCH OF UNIVERSITIES IN TIMES OF CRISIS AND DISRUPTION BY LORRAINE LING AND KAY LIVINGSTON

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

To be launched by Professor John Dewar AO Vice-Chancellor and President of La Trobe University.

This book examines the role and future of universities in times of chronic disruption and crisis – presented via an original conceptual framework which the authors term ‘Dislocated Complexity’ – and discusses how to move forward in the face of severely disrupted social, political, economic and environment contexts.

Free

CURATOR’S TOUR OF GARRYOWEN’S MELBOURNE WITH DR LIZ RUSHEN

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

Historian Dr Liz Rushen will take you behind the scenes of our current exhibition, Garryowen's Melbourne which Liz curated. The exhibition grew out of the research Liz had done for her book, Garryowen Unmasked: The Life of Edmund Finn, which was launched earlier this year and was aided by her deep knowledge of the RHSV collection and its treasures.

The tour will be followed by afternoon tea.

Free

Oral History Victoria Awards Showcase Event 2024

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Tuesday 5 March, 5-6pm, online via Zoom To celebrate the exceptional originality and quality of the entrants to the 2023 Oral History Award (jointly run by the Victorian Community History
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Tour of Historical Trades Hall followed by more labour history in the Curtin Hotel

Victorian Trades Hall 54 Victoria Street, Carlton, Victoria, Australia

In 2023 we organised a tour of Trades Hall and everyone on the tour said it was exceptional and that Antony Moore, the guide, was worth bottling. So, in 2024, we'll be hosting another tour with Antony but with a great addition.  From 2pm - 3:30pm you'll be touring Trades Hall with Antony and then we'll skip over the road to the Curtin Hotel where so much Labor history has played out and, over a drink, David Cragg, will enlighten us with more Labor history.

$35.00