ROSS MCMULLIN ON “LIFE SO FULL OF PROMISE”

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

An event with Ross is always much anticipated.  Ross McMullin is an award-winning historian and biographer, a renowned storyteller, an entertaining speaker, and a longstanding RHSV member. His multi-biography Farewell, Dear People was awarded the Prime Minister’s Prize for Australian History, and in his new sequel Life So Full of Promise, Ross has again combined prodigious research and narrative flair in a collection of interwoven family stories about forgotten Australians who had radiant potential.

$10.00 – $20.00

Emigration, Dress and Australian Colonial Society, 1820s – 1860s

Heritage Hill Museum and Historic Gardens 66 McCrae St, Dandenong, Select a State or Province:, Australia

Join us for this talk as we consider the nature of colonial society and the immigrants experience through the lens of dress. What clothes did people bring with them to
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Free, bookings required

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

CONVICTION POLITICS: A DIGITAL INVESTIGATION OF THE CONVICT ROOTS OF AUSTRALIAN DEMOCRACY

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

This event is organised by the Descendants of Convicts Group Inc (DOCS) together with the RHSV. Conviction Politics is an international digital history project exploring the impact of radicals and rebels transported as political convicts to their place of exile in Australia. Project leader, Associate Professor Tony Moore from Monash University, will take us through the project’s discoveries, media and exhibition, including screening a selection of short documentaries. Tony will explain how Conviction Politics overturns the orthodoxy of how we think about convict Australia. The project reveals how Australia’s first ‘unfree’ workforce resisted exploitation and subordination through inventive solidarity in the face of coercion, while a vanguard of rebels, liberal pamphleteers, industrial protestors and radical agitators changed the political direction of the Australian colonies.

Free

Labassa open day

Labassa 2 Manor Grove, Caulfield North, Victoria, Australia

Experience the complex richness of Labassa’s architectural and human history. Although more than 700 people have lived at Labassa, it has miraculously survived with most of its opulent Victorian era
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Free – $35.

CHARLTON GOLDEN GRAINS MUSEUM 50TH ANNIVERSARY

Charlton Golden Grains Museum 1 High St, Charlton, VIC, Australia

As part of the 50th anniversary celebrations a new display on the history of Charlton's Churches, 'Keeping the Faith', will be opened followed by afternoon tea.  The exhibition will be housed in the former Wesleyan Chapel which has undergone renovations. A special collecting campaign has been underway to find photos and reminiscences for all of Charlton's Churches including: Sunday School, Weddings, Christenings, Youth Group, Picnics, Minsters, Organists etc

RIO TINTO IN AUSTRALIA

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

Robert’s lecture will discuss Rio Tinto’s formation and the evolution of its main business activities in Australia. A focus of his lecture will be the initial and ongoing connections of the company with Melbourne and Victoria. After a patchy start in Australia, in 1962, Rio Tinto merged with Consolidated Zinc to form Conzinc Riotinto of Australia (CRA). Under the leadership of legendary mining figure, Sir Maurice Mawby, CRA progressed the development of the aluminium industry in Australia, the establishment of Australia’s export iron ore industry based on the Mount Tom Price deposit in the Pilbara, as well as a major copper operation on the island of Bougainville. The early Australian management saw themselves as contributing to Australia’s post-war development and nation building.

$10.00 – $20.00