Looking Back, Looking Forward. Summer Fun in Yarra Plenty

Eltham Library Community Gallery 1 Panther Place, Eltham, Victoria, Australia

5 December 2019 - 6 January 2020 Historical photographs and original artworks are exhibited side by side in this celebration of all things summer - picnics, swimming, boating, horsing around, and enjoying nature with family and friends during long sunny days. The exhibition is presented in collaboration with members of the Yarra Plenty Heritage Group
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Free

Launch of A Guide to Historic St Kilda

Readings St Kilda 112 Acland St, St Kilda, VICTORIA, Australia

Where was the alpaca paddock? Who has the Palais chandelier? Was there a Banksy painting in a laneway? Join author, David Willis for the launch of his latest book, A Guide to Historic St Kilda on Tuesday 10 December at 6pm at Readings, 112 Acland St. RSVP: stkildapress@outlook.com

Free

RHSV Christmas lunch for volunteers

Radisson on Flagstaff Gardens 380 William St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

For our volunteers and staff to celebrate a wonderful year working together at the RHSV.  

Free

Launch: Locating Australian Literary Memory

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

Brigid Magner's Locating Australian Literary Memory explores the cultural meanings suffusing local literary commemorations; orientated around eleven authors – Adam Lindsay Gordon, Joseph Furphy, Henry Handel Richardson, Henry Lawson, A. B. ‘Banjo’ Paterson, Nan Chauncy, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Eleanor Dark, P. L. Travers, Kylie Tennant and David Unaipon.

Free

ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW. MODULE 6: MAKING COLLECTIONS ACCESSIBLE

RHSV ZOOM by Invitation , Australia

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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$25 – $35

Exhibition launch: The Swamp Vanishes

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

Before European settlers arrived in the Port Phillip district, a large wetland that lay between the Yarra River and the Moonee Ponds Creek sustained the indigenous people and the cultural traditions of the Kulin nation. While the wetland had initially been described in terms of beauty, within a few short years the swamp was noisome and reviled, and talk began of draining and reclamation. This exhibition traces the how a significant wetland vanished from sight.          

Free

Workshop: Born Digital Documents

RHSV ZOOM by Invitation , Australia

Presented by the Royal Historical Society of Victoria and Victorian Collections, this hands-on workshop provides an introduction to the principles of acquiring, storing, cataloguing and caring for born-digital material. This workshop is suitable for beginners who may have, or plan to acquire, digital images, media files or documents in their collection. Participants are asked to
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$30 – $50

Seminar: EARLY MELBOURNE SUBURBS 1835-1880

RHSV ZOOM by Invitation , Australia

The RHSV and the Genealogical Society of Victoria are delighted to co-present this full-day seminar which will give participants a deep understanding of the forces and influences which have shaped Melbourne's early growth. The seminar will be opened with a overview by Gary Presland on how Melbourne's Geography shaped its development. Then the following historians
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$45 – $60

PEOPLE AND CHANGES TO TAY CREGGAN

Tay Creggan Strathcona Baptist Girls Grammar 30 Yarra Street, Hawthorn, VIC, Australia

An opportunity to see inside the magnificient Tay Creggan, in Yarra Street, Hawthorn.  This heritage
home is now Strathcona year 9 campus. Diana Little will be talking about PEOPLE AND CHANGES TO TAY CREGGAN and a book on Yarra Street by Elizabeth Love and Jennifer Bowen, will also be launched on this day.

Gippsland: Cataloguing and Digitisation series of six workshops

Federation University Gippsland Campus Library Northways Road, Churchill, VIC, Australia

The RHSV is offering a series of 6 linked workshops (three Saturdays over three months) which cover cataloguing and digitisation. This series of workshops is progressive, starting with basic concepts and building in complexity. We have spaced the workshops so that participants have time in which to put into practice their new skills before the
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$150 – $225