Subcultures of Friendship
39 St Edmonds Road, Prahran, VIC 3181 39 St Edmonds Road, Prahran, VIC, Australia🌈 Subcultures of Friendship, Male Homosexual Lives in Mid-Century Victoria David and Wayne will guide us through Subcultures of Friendship made in a Mid-Century Melbourne. Wayne Murdoch is going to focus on Melbourne in the 1920s and 30s. His information is based on the research done for his book Kamp Melbourne in the 1920s and
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Eleven Letters To You
Bert Lewis Room, first floor, Box Hill Library 1040 Whitehorse Road, Box Hill, Select one, AustraliaBox Hill Historical Society kicks off 2024 with a talk by prominent literary critic, journalist and author Helen Elliott. Helen spent some time working in the Box Hill Library, commencing in 1965. She will speak of her memories of Box Hill. Copies of her memoir, Eleven Letters to You, will be available for sale at
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Box Hill Library – some beginnings.
Box Hill Library, Whitehorse road. Bert Lewis Room 1040 Whitehorse road, Box Hill, Box Hill, AustraliaProminent literary critic and author Helen Elliott worked in the Box Hill Library from 1964 -19169 when it was a small rectangular building in the middle of Whitehorse road. There were perhaps 20 staff. All female. The Chief Librarian was a man Bert Lewis. In her recent Memoir, Eleven Letters to You, Elliott devotes two
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BILLIBELLARY INDIGENOUS HISTORY LECTURE. The view from here: thinking about Australian Indigenous histories and their future.
RHSV Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett St, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaWe are honoured that Professor Lynette Russell AM will deliver the 2024 Billibellary Indigenous History Lecture at the RHSV. Professor Lynette Russell AM FASSA FAHA (Sir John Monash Distinguished Professor and ARC Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate Professor at Monash University’s Indigenous Studies Centre) is an award-winning historian and Indigenous studies scholar. Her research is broadly anthropological history. Russell has published widely in the areas of theory, Indigenous histories, post-colonialism and representations of race, museum studies and popular culture.
Melbourne’s Great Metropolitan Railways
39 St Edmonds Road, Prahran, VIC 3181 39 St Edmonds Road, Prahran, VIC, Australia🚇 Melbourne’s Great Metropolitan Railways – With A Nod Over The Border A little over one hundred years ago, Australia’s first electrified suburban railways commenced operations. Melbourne led the way when electric trains ran between Essendon and Sandringham on 28 May 1919. Sydney followed suit seven years later when its first electric train ran between
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Aboriginal Victorians with Richard Broome
Malvern Town Hall Corner High Street and Glenferrie Road Malvern, Melbourne, AustraliaEmeritus Professor Richard Broome AM, will be talking to Malvern Historical Society members and friends on Wednesday 21 February about the second edition of his double award-winning history, ABORIGINAL VICTORIANS. A HISTORY SINCE 1800. Published by Allen & Unwin.
CATALOGUING CLINICS 2024
ZOOM Join from anywhere in the worldJoin Jillian Hiscock, the RHSV Collections Manager, each month in this informative and easy-going Zoom forum on all aspects of cataloguing collections for historical societies. In 2024's first Cataloguing Clinic for the year, Jillian will talk about collection management, what you keep or don’t keep, when you catalogue material as an archive or a collection and any issues around the actual collection. 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. Bring your questions (no matter the topic) - this is an interactive space where questions are encouraged. The RHSV does not endorse any particular cataloguing software - we believe it is horses for courses - and Jillian will talk about issues that impact on cataloguing whether you are using cataloguing cards or software.
Book Launch: The Goldfields Re-Imagined by Marjorie Theobald
Market Building, 44 Mostyn Street, Castlemaine 44 Mostyn Street, Castlemaine, VIC, AustraliaBOOK LAUNCH The Goldfields Re-Imagined; militant miners, miscreants and poor Mary Anne By Marjorie Theobald This is a lively and engaging series of chapters about women, convicts, shysters, aristocrats and politicians in the Castlemaine goldrush. There is a piece about Castlemaine's remarkable but little known Gold Commissioner (then Warden) Captain John Edward Newell Bull, and his attempts
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BOOK LAUNCH OF UNIVERSITIES IN TIMES OF CRISIS AND DISRUPTION BY LORRAINE LING AND KAY LIVINGSTON
RHSV Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett St, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaTo be launched by Professor John Dewar AO Vice-Chancellor and President of La Trobe University.
This book examines the role and future of universities in times of chronic disruption and crisis – presented via an original conceptual framework which the authors term ‘Dislocated Complexity’ – and discusses how to move forward in the face of severely disrupted social, political, economic and environment contexts.
Nature, Our Medicine: a presentation by Dr Dimity Williams
Nature, Our Medicine: a presentation by Dr Dimity Williams Dr Dimity Williams is a mother, nature lover, and family doctor. She has worked as a Family Physician for 25 years in inner Melbourne on Wurundjeri Country, and enjoys looking after the whole person from pre-conception to old age. Dimity has completed additional training in obstetrics, paediatrics
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