The Women of Little Lon
OnlineSex workers in nineteenth-century Melbourne were judged morally corrupt by the respectable world around them. But theirs was a thriving trade, with links to the police and political leaders of the day, and the leading brothels were usually managed by women. Who were they? What did their daily lives look like? What became of them?
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VINTAGE HOTELWARE with DI SANDILANDS
RHSV Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett St, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaWhen table manners were fashionable, eating houses proudly served meals on crockery emblazoned with their establishment name – each mouthful reminding customers of exactly where they were. Join Di for a fun night when she'll be displaying many Victorian pieces from her vintage hotelware collection, telling their stories and hers. She'll also be selling her pure linen Coles Cafeteria art tea towels which are printed with each cafeteria location throughout Australia.
Dorothy Baker, singing star of the 1960s
Caulfield Cup Room, Glen Eira Town Hall Cnr Glen Eira and Hawthorn Roads, Caulfield, VIC, AustraliaGlen Eira Historical Society invites you to a talk on Dorothy Baker by Golden Days Radio Presenter, Barry Gomm. Within 18 months of the introduction of television in Melbourne a new singing star appeared in ‘live to air’ programs. Winning several radio talent quests led Dorothy Baker to become a favourite singer at Melbourne dance
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Cataloguing Clinics 2022
ZOOM Join from anywhere in the worldFree 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.
CRANK UP 2022
Old Yarra Junction Railway Station Warburton Highway, Yarra Junction, VIC, Australia2 wonderful days of heritage and history in the Upper Yarra Valley - great steam engines, a wood chop, local stalls - all to support the Upper Yarra Valley Historical Society
61st Annual Pioneer Women’s Ceremony
Pioneer Women's Memorial Garden Kings Domain, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaDr Judith Smart AM, co-author of the history of the NCW Australia, Stirrers with Style will give an overview of the history of women’s organisations, then a panel of speakers from some of the founding groups of NCWV will talk about their beginnings and where they are today.
Where the River Runs – walk in Richmond
Studio 1, Former Channel 9 Building 15 Barnett Way, Richmond, Victoria, AustraliaThe Richmond & Burnley Historical Society is holding a walk (flat and gentle!) which starts at Studio One, Kennedy Place, Richmond (the old GTV9 site). The walk meanders along the Yarra River, Burnley Park, the Horticultural Gardens and returns for afternoon tea. Bookings essential: 9427 1800 or richmondhs@optusnet.com.au
Burnley Gardens: and the people who loved them
ZOOM Join from anywhere in the worldTo replace the cancelled Symposium "Women in Horticulture" which was to be held in conjunction with Friends of Burnley Gardens and the Herb Society of Victoria, Australian Garden History Society (AGHS) is offering the two planned lectures online instead. FOBG will be organising a launch of the book “Burnley Gardens: their design and the people
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Launch of Kaleidoscope exhibition
RHSV, Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaKaleidoscope is the RHSV's major exhibition in 2022 and it celebrates the women who were crucial in building the organisation from its beginning in 1909. This is biography imagined through the lens of a Kaleidoscope. The viewer is offered fragments of the lives represented here. There is no linear narrative. Each time the kaleidoscope turns, a different story emerges. There are repeating patterns but different emphases and new ways of seeing, new reflections, new refractions. No one story dominates and one story does not fit all.
CONNECTING HISTORICAL SOCIETIES AND PRIMARY SCHOOLS
ZOOM Join from anywhere in the worldIn 2022 the RHSV, along with many other organisations, will be pulling out all stops to celebrate the sesquicentenary of the Education Act 1872. This ground-breaking legislation mandated that primary education in Victoria would be free, secular and compulsory. The Dept of Education is encouraging primary schools to partner with their local historical societies -
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