Food, Fun and Flag Wavers: Memories of the Lygon Street Festa Exhibition
Museo Italiano 199 Faraday Street, Carlton, Victoria, AustraliaJoin CO.AS.IT. in celebrating History Week 2019 with a joyful walk down memory lane, exploring the fun times that were had by young and old at the Lygon Street Festa
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Book launch – No Regard for the Truth
Public Record Office Victoria 99 Shiel Street, North Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaPlease join us as Hazel Edwards OAM launches No Regard for the Truth by Darren Arnott. A rogue army captain. An Italian prisoner of war. A blossoming romance. March 1946.
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In the Footsteps of Nicholas O’Donnell: doctor and community leader in Hotham 1869-1919.
North Melbourne Library 66 Errol Street, North Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaSaturday 12 October 2.00pm. A walk lead by Val Noone – In the Footsteps of Nicholas O’Donnell: doctor and community leader in Hotham 1869-1919. Dr Nicholas O’Donnell (1862- 1920) was
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History Week 2019
History Week 2019 will run from Sunday 13 to Sunday 20 October. Keep watch for new initiatives around History Week and our flagship event during History Week, the Victorian Community History Awards.
TALKING HISTORY
62 Jackson St, Casterton VIC 3311 62 Jackson St, Casterton, VIC, AustraliaExhibition: MAPPING GLENELG 1800 -1900 A collection of maps showing charts from the navigators along the coast, 1800-1802; explorers through the district from 1836; squatters on the Glenelg River 1837-1847;
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Annual General Meeting
Marine Hotel 215 New Street BrightonAnnual General Meeting of The Adam Lindsay Gordon Commemorative Committee Incorporated
History Week 2019
History Week 2019 will run from Sunday 13 to Sunday 20 October. Keep watch for new initiatives around History Week and our flagship event during History Week, the Victorian Community History Awards.
Walking tour: Batmania
The Former Age Building 655 Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaRHSV researcher, Fiona Graham, has put together a new guided walking tour of the south-western corner of the CBD - today it is a slightly raffish, down-at-heel part of town but back in 1835 it was where everything was unfolding. Come and learn something new about your city.
New Members welcome and Higinbotham Lecture
RHSV, Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaAn event to welcome New Members and introduce them to the many facets of the RHSV followed by drinks and Geraldine Moore's lecture on George Higinbotham.
Lecture: Geraldine Moore on key events in the life of George Higinbotham
RHSV ZOOM by Invitation , AustraliaGeorge Higinbotham was a highly influential politician in colonial Victoria. One of his contemporaries described him as a man of ‘dash and daring’ who ‘won from privilege and class ground
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