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Friends of La Trobe’s Cottage Annual Lecture: The Lady of St Kilda

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

This illustrated talk explains how the Schooner Lady of St Kilda connected La Trobe’s naming of St Kilda with the remote Scottish island of St Kilda. A second link involved the Barque Priscilla. She carried 36 St Kilda migrants, but only 16 survived the voyage to Port Phillip.

Ernest Scott Prize Lecture by Janet McCalman

Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre

First Ernest Scott Prize lecture of 2022: ‘Damaged Goods from Scotland: The long arm of traumatic childhood in convict history’ Presented by Emeritus Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor Janet McCalman AC Date: 
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Fatal Contact: Introduced epidemics among Australia’s Colonial Australian First Nations

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

This talk by Peter Dowling explores the devastating infectious diseases introduced into the Indigenous populations of Australia after the arrival of the British colonists in 1788. Epidemics of smallpox, tuberculosis, influenza, measles and sexually transmitted diseases swept through the indigenous populations of the continent well into the twentieth century.

$10.00 – $20.00

Chinese Market Gardens from Coburg to Bentleigh

Murrumbeena Bowls Club 10 Blackwood Street, Carnegie, VIC, Australia

Glen Eira Historical Society's Speaker Series this month is a talk by Terry Young on Chinese Market Gardens from Coburg to Bentleigh. Terry is Vice President of Chinese Australian Family
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$2.00

Cataloguing Clinics 2022

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CANCELLED - Due to day of mourning for the Queen.
Free 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.

Free

Men and Ships Driven by the Wind

Port Melbourne Town Hall 333 Bay Street, Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia

At the September meeting of the Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation Society Bruce Gooley will speak on the topic of  Men and Ships Driven by the Wind. Bruce is a graduate of Melbourne University and a researcher, presenter and self-published author with a special interest in maritime history. He is a volunteer tutor at the Hawthorn University of the Third Age (U3A). He has presented over 120 one and a half hour illustrated maritime history talks there, and has also presented to Probus and historical societies, and has documented these talks in book format. 

Lost Banyule

Graham Thorley of the Heidelberg Historical Society will join us to reflect on the changing face of the Banyule municipality via its population, buildings, infrastructure, and ways of life. Banyule's
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Free