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Next Steps with Trove

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Trove is a National Library of Australia initiative providing a single point of entry to a treasure trove of artefacts, curiosities and stories from Australia’s cultural, community and research institutions. In this session you'll learn advanced search techniques to uncover this wealth of resources to research family, local, and Australian history. Some experience with Trove
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Free

VICTORIA’S EARLIEST POTTERIES

Royal Historical Society of Victoria 239 A'Beckett St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Victoria’s Earliest Potteries - Lecture and Exhibition Guest Speaker: Gregory Hill, who is recognised as the leading authority on Australian Colonial Pottery and Australian Art Pottery. His book, Victoria’s Earliest Potteries, featured convict era potters and Victoria’s earliest pottery which was close to Superintendent La Trobe’s 'Jolimont' estate near the Yarra River. A small exhibition
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$25

Slingshots, ragdolls and knucklebones: A history of Australian children’s play

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What can objects, photographs and recollections teach us about the history of childhood? In this talk, historian Carla Pascoe Leahy discusses the history of children’s play in the twentieth century, drawing upon evocative examples from her own research and Museums Victoria’s collections. Dr Carla Pascoe Leahy is an historian at the University of Tasmania where
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$5 – $10

Acts of Reckoning

The Wheeler Centre 176 Little Londsale Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

How does Australia's relationship to its settler colonial past shape our shared future? And can we ever achieve true healing if we don't confront history head on? Griffith Review's Acts of Reckoning issue examines some of the complexities at play in Australia's long and fraught journey toward centering First Nations peoples, cultures and knowledges. Join the Wheeler Centre for this special panel event as lawyer, storyteller and Griffith Review contributing editor, Teela Reid, activist and Uluru Statement from the Heart architect, Megan Davis and historian Henry Reynolds (appearing via a video feed) reckon with questions of history, truth-telling and decolonisation. 

Australia’s Great Depression

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

We are thrilled that Joan Beaumont, Professor Emerita of History at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University, will deliver our July lecture on her profound history of Australia’s Great Depression. Beaumont says, ‘The pandemic has much common with the Great Depression. Australians today have confronted external threats, that neither they nor their
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$10 – $20.00

Preserving your memories

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Do you have old photos, letters, small drawings and/ or documents that you’re worried about preserving safely long term? Learn about the different ways you can save them and save your favourite items.

AGM and Speaker Series talk – Researching a Roll of Honour

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The Glen Eira Historical Society AGM will be held via Zoom on Wednesday 27 July at 7.30pm. Following the AGM (approx 20 mins), will be a talk by author Jenny O’Donnell on “Researching a Roll of Honour”. Register in advance for this meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0rc-yoqjoqHdWRtPJCxZRCBdrYaFk-OFdb

Free

Cataloguing Clinics 2022

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Free monthly cataloguing clinics via Zoom. The clinics run for an hour from 11am – 12noon on the 4th Thursday of each month. It is a relaxed gathering of people who are finding their way through the intricacies of cataloguing material in historical collections which, as we all know, fall between a library and a museum with sometimes a bit of art gallery thrown in.

Free
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Open House weekend: guided historical tours of Brighton Cemetery

Brighton General Cemetery North Road, Caulfield South, Victoria, Australia

The Brighton Cemetery is over 160 years old and full of notable people that made Melbourne memorable: Sir John Monash; Carlo Catani - Civil Engineer; Charles Ogg, Architect; George Frederick Ballantyne, Architect; and William Guilfoyle, Landscape Gardener and Botanist are but a few of the many people who lie resting within the walls of the cemetery.

OPEN HOUSE MELBOURNE

Royal Historical Society of Victoria 239 A'Beckett St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

On Sunday 31st of July, as part of Open House Melbourne, we will be offering free guided tours of the Australian Army Medical Corps Drill Hall which is now home to the RHSV and several performing arts companies. Our wonderful building is an art deco masterpiece built in 1938 as Australia and the rest of the world readied themselves for another world war.