Collingwood History Walk
This year's walk will examine the area bounded by Victoria Parade, Smith Street, Wellington Street and Peel Street. The area was subdivided early in the history of Melbourne's colonisation and has seen many changes over the years. We will start outside one of Melbourne's oldest surviving hotels, the Grace Darling, and return there at 4
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Altona Homestead Devonshire Tea
Altona Homestead 128 Queen Street, Altona, Victoria, AustraliaThe Altona-Laverton Historical Society members and volunteers invite you to drop into the Altona Homestead on the first Sunday of the Month (February to December) to enjoy a serve of our famous Devonshire Tea or Cream Tea or Cornish Tea, anyway you look at them they are delicious.
Upper Yarra Valley Historical Society: Ride into History
Join the Upper Yarra Valley Historical Society in their slow paced adults only bicycle ride from Warburton to Yarra Junction along the Warburton Rail Trail and experience snippets of their local settlement history come to life through vignettes performed by Mad Hatter Theatrics and projections of historical images by Little Projector Company. This unique storytelling experience is
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Upper Yarra Valley Historical Society: Ride into History
Join the Upper Yarra Valley Historical Society in their slow paced adults only bicycle ride from Warburton to Yarra Junction along the Warburton Rail Trail and experience snippets of their local settlement history come to life through vignettes performed by Mad Hatter Theatrics and projections of historical images by Little Projector Company. This unique storytelling experience is
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MARKETING FORUMS
ZOOM Join from anywhere in the worldChristina Browning, the RHSV Marketing Officer, leads these forums which each month tackle a different aspect of marketing for historical societies - they tend to concentrate on social media as it is very available and is free to use, however, Christina will tackle any aspect of marketing which you want to raise. Christina will prepare
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Middle Park Primary School in the 1970s and a proposal for a mega soccer stadium in Albert Park Reserve
Middle Park Primary School 192 Richardson St, Middle Park, VIC, AustraliaIn an event for the Middle Park and Albert Park History Group, John Stirling will talk about Middle Park Primary School in the 1970s and a proposal for a mega soccer stadium in Albert Park Reserve
ROSS MCMULLIN ON “LIFE SO FULL OF PROMISE”
RHSV Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett St, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaAn event with Ross is always much anticipated. Ross McMullin is an award-winning historian and biographer, a renowned storyteller, an entertaining speaker, and a longstanding RHSV member. His multi-biography Farewell, Dear People was awarded the Prime Minister’s Prize for Australian History, and in his new sequel Life So Full of Promise, Ross has again combined prodigious research and narrative flair in a collection of interwoven family stories about forgotten Australians who had radiant potential.
A Night with Elizabeth Macarthur: Hidden Figure in Australian History
39 St Edmonds Road, Prahran, VIC 3181 39 St Edmonds Road, Prahran, VIC, Australia🐑 A Night with Elizabeth Macarthur: Hidden Figure in Australian History Do you enjoy finding out about people history has hidden? So does Michelle Scott Tucker. She is the author of Elizabeth Macarthur: A Life at the Edge of the World – an engaging yet meticulously researched biography of the woman who established the Australian
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Emigration, Dress and Australian Colonial Society, 1820s – 1860s
Heritage Hill Museum and Historic Gardens 66 McCrae St, Dandenong, Select a State or Province:, AustraliaJoin us for this talk as we consider the nature of colonial society and the immigrants experience through the lens of dress. What clothes did people bring with them to start a new life in Australia? How did this match with what they found on arrival? Presenter Laura Jocic, is a curator and dress historian
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CATALOGUING CLINICS 2023
ZOOM Join from anywhere in the worldJoin Jillian Hiscock, the RHSV Collections Manager, each month is this informative and easy-going Zoom forum on all aspects of cataloguing collections for historical societies. Jillian has a different topic each month and is happy to be guided by those who attend as to what they would like covered in upcoming clinics. This is an
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