Congress for International Cooperation and Disarmament (CICD) celebrates 60 years
Unitarian Peace Memorial Church 110 Grey St, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaOn 10 November 2019 CICD will celebrate 60 years of active campaigning on peace and nuclear disarmament, social justice and much more… We’d like to invite you to celebrate this with us at our anniversary function. So, please join us as we continue to fight for peace and to Ban the Bomb! Speakers include: Joan Coxsedge: anti
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Lecture. Farming the Mallee: Visions and Realities 1890-present
RHSV ZOOM by Invitation , AustraliaWe are honoured that our last major lecture for 2019 will be delivered by Professor Katie Holmes, Director, Centre for the Study of the Inland and co-author of the soon-to-be-published Mallee Country: Land, People, History together with Richard Broome, Charles Fahey and Andrea Gaynor. In the early 1890s the Victorian Mallee was seen as a
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Celebration of Fifty Years Membership
RHSV, Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaCelebrate 50 years of RHSV membership
Those Creative Liardets
Port Melbourne Town Hall 333 Bay Street, Port Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaWe welcome and encourage you to come and celebrate the 180th anniversary of Wilbraham and Caroline Liardet's arrival to the shores of 'The Beach' - later Sandridge (Port Melbourne). Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation Society is proud to present a collection of beautiful artworks and creative pieces from some of their descendants. This exhibition celebrates
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BOOK LAUNCH INVITATION to Mallee Country: Land, People, History
RHSV, Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaThe Royal Historical Society of Victoria and Monash University Publishing are delighted to invite you the launch of Mallee Country: Land, People, History By Richard Broome, Charles Fahey, Andrea Gaynor and Katie Holmes Mallee Country will be launched by Tom Griffiths, Emeritus Professor of History, ANU. With a special performance by the celebrated gum leaf
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The launch of Melbourne’s Twenty Decades
RHSV, Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaThe RHSV invites our members and friends to attend the launch of our latest book, Melbourne's Twenty Decades. To be launched by Emeritus Laureate Professor Stuart Macintyre AO FAHA FASSA.
ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW. MODULE 5: LOOKING AFTER DIGITAL FILES
The RHSV is offering a series of 6 linked workshops which cover cataloguing and digitisation. This series of workshops starts with basic concepts and builds in complexity. We have spaced the workshops so that participants have time in which to put into practice their new skills before the next workshop. Some participants will want to
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Explorations Series – Living with the Hume Dam, 1919-2019
Commerical Club 618 Dean Street, Albury, NSW, AustraliaIn 1919 work began on Hume Dam with celebration and acclaim. When it was completed in 1936 it was hailed as an engineering and political achievement, indeed, a nation-building project. How do we understand its history and legacy now in 2019? Join river system and dam managers, environmentalists, historians, photographers and musicians as they share
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Walk into history
Bendigo Historical Society offers different guided walking tours every month. In December it will be: Beehive / Allan's Walk / Stock Exchange Meet at Pall Mall entrance of the Beehive building, Pall Mall, Bendigo
The La Trobes’ Music
La Trobe's Cottage cnr Birdwood Avenue and Dallas Brooks Drive, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaThe La Trobes’ Music: celebrate the role music played in the life of the La Trobe family while they lived at 'Jolimont'. Musicians will perform the music that would have echoed around 'Jolimont' in the time of the La Trobe family. • the piano sonatas composed by La Trobe’s father Christian Ignatius • a song
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