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Altona Homestead Devonshire Tea

Altona Homestead 128 Queen Street, Altona, Victoria, Australia

The 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.

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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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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

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Christina 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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Free

ROSS MCMULLIN ON “LIFE SO FULL OF PROMISE”

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

An 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.

$10.00 – $20.00

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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Gold Coin Donation

Emigration, Dress and Australian Colonial Society, 1820s – 1860s

Heritage Hill Museum and Historic Gardens 66 McCrae St, Dandenong, Select a State or Province:, Australia

Join 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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Free, bookings required

CATALOGUING CLINICS 2023

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Join 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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Free

CONVICTION POLITICS: A DIGITAL INVESTIGATION OF THE CONVICT ROOTS OF AUSTRALIAN DEMOCRACY

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

This event is organised by the Descendants of Convicts Group Inc (DOCS) together with the RHSV. Conviction Politics is an international digital history project exploring the impact of radicals and rebels transported as political convicts to their place of exile in Australia. Project leader, Associate Professor Tony Moore from Monash University, will take us through the project’s discoveries, media and exhibition, including screening a selection of short documentaries. Tony will explain how Conviction Politics overturns the orthodoxy of how we think about convict Australia. The project reveals how Australia’s first ‘unfree’ workforce resisted exploitation and subordination through inventive solidarity in the face of coercion, while a vanguard of rebels, liberal pamphleteers, industrial protestors and radical agitators changed the political direction of the Australian colonies.

Free