Whitehorse Heritage Week Exhibition & Talks

Box Hill Town Hall, lower hall 1022 Whitehorse Road, Box Hill, Select one, Australia

Visit our exhibition, be entertained and informed by our speakers, and check out our databases. See historic items loaned by Bolton Clarke (the Royal District Nursing Service), Box Hill Hospital, Red Cross, St John Ambulance and Kew Historical Society. Were any of your family members struck down with influenza in 1919? Historian Mary Sheehan will
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Gold coin donation

RHSV Wine-Tasting

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

Join us for a very different and very convivial history event. Our hosts, David Dunstan and Ron Leslie, know their wine and their history and will be guiding us through both. A talk by David and a tasting of six wines organised by Ron will be book-ended with some mood-lightening Prosecco. 

$40

Whitehorse Heritage Week Exhibition & Talks

Box Hill Town Hall, lower hall 1022 Whitehorse Road, Box Hill, Select one, Australia

Visit our exhibition, be entertained and informed by our speakers, and check out our databases. See historic items loaned by Bolton Clarke (the Royal District Nursing Service), Box Hill Hospital, Red Cross, St John Ambulance and Kew Historical Society. Were any of your family members struck down with an infectious disease in the past? Diphtheria,
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Gold coin donation

Medicos & Misadventures Cemetery Tour

Box Hill Cemetery 395 Middleborough Road, Box Hill, VIC, Australia

As part of the Whitehorse Heritage Week, the Box Hill and Surrey Hills Historical Societies are conducting a tour of the Box Hill Cemetery. Visit the graves of one of the first osteopaths in Australia; learn about a victim of the 1919 flu epidemic; hear about some well-loved doctors and nurses, and the details of
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$15 – $20

Trivia Night – What’s Up Doc?

St Peter’s Church hall 1038 Whitehorse Road, Box Hill, Vic, Australia

Test the health of your brain cells and the extent of your trivia knowledge with our quiz master Rev Shane Hubner, and help raise funds for the digitization of the Box Hill Reporter so all can read it online at Trove, the National Library’s website. Team and individual prizes to be won. This event is
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$20

History of Emergency Medicine.

Bert Lewis Room, first floor, Box Hill Library 1040 Whitehorse Road, Box Hill, Select one, Australia

Dr Edward Brentnall OAM joined Box Hill Hospital in 1975 and was a major player in the evolution of emergency medicine following the introduction of Medicare and an increased demand for hospital services. This talk is part of the Whitehorse Heritage Week activities organised by the Box Hill Historical Society. No booking necessary.

Gold coin donation

Sunday Talk with the La Trobe Society

Mueller Hall, Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens Birdwood Avenue, Melbourne, Australia

CHARLES HOTSON EBDEN : VICTORIA'S FIRST AUDITOR-GENERAL Speaker: Carolyn Brown, President Black Rock House Inc. Includes afternoon tea. All welcome. Bookings essentail

$10

Lecture: The Wreck of the Fiji

RHSV ZOOM by Invitation , Australia

Author and historian, Alan McLean will spin the story of the wreck of the Fiji off Moonlit Head 1891. There will be a corresponding exhibition in the RHSV Library on the items retrieved from the wreck by Heritage Victoria.

$10 – $20

Blue Lake: Finding Dudley Flats and the West Melbourne Swamp.

North Melbourne Library 66 Errol Street, North Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Talk by David Sornig – Blue Lake: Finding Dudley Flats and the West Melbourne Swamp. In Blue Lake, David Sornig examines how the 8km-square zone to the west of central Melbourne became the city’s blind spot. Once a fertile wetland with a large blue saltwater lagoon, it passed through various incarnations: from boneyards and rubbish
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Living on Mallee Country – Deep Time to 1900

State Library of Victoria Entry 3, Village Roadshow Theatre, La Trobe Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

RHSV President Emeritus Professor Richard Broome is delivering the 2019 History Council of Victoria's Annual Lecture. Mallee country being semi-arid scrub country has made living upon it difficult for humans but not other living things. This lecture will explore how mallee country was used by Aboriginal people from Deep Time to the pastoral era and
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Free