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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Gold coin donation

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.  

Free

Waltzing Matilda: Australia’s Accidental Anthem

Altona Library 123 Queen St, Altona, VIC, Australia

The song that started as an accidental collaboration in outback Queensland in 1895 caused the death of a seven-year relationship and went on to inspire a nation during WWII. Author
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Free

Talk: The history of Kodak in Coburg 1961-2004

Coburg Library Corner Waterfield and Louisa Streets, Coburg, Victoria, Australia

At Coburg Historical Society May monthly meeting, Fiona Kinsey, Senior curator of the images and Image history including the Kodak Collection at Museums Victoria will talk on the subject of
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Free

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