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Specialist History Tour: Sharing the Universe at Melbourne Observatory

Melbourne Observatory Birdwood Avenue, Royal Botanic Gardens, VIC, Australia

This is a VIP tour of Melbourne Observatory, formally acknowledged as a place of outstanding national scientific, architectural, historical, astronomical and cultural significance, and a potential nomination for UNESCO World Heritage listing.

$25

Box Hill Cemetery Tour

Box Hill Cemetery 395 Middleborough Road, Box Hill, VIC, Australia

To coincide with the beginning of Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day in March, our tour will focus on women in Box Hill cemetery. We will visit the graves of a variety of women, from nurses, teachers and artists to pioneers of women’s organisations. Come along and learn about the part that some women
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$20.00

Scoresby Steamfest 2020

National Steam Centre 1200 Ferntree Gully Road, Scoresby, VIC, Australia

A unique experience with demonstrations and exhibits of Australian domestic, industrial and agricultural heritage. Our engines are impressive to see in action with some of Victoria's best steam, diesel and engine displays. These operating engines form only part of over 500 engines and associated exhibits on display during our rally. This event also provides a
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Up from the vaults: As the River Flows

Old Quadrangle University of Melbourne First floor, Parkville, VIC, Australia

The changing shape of Birrarung (Yarra River) In the first outing of our ‘Up from the Vaults’ series for 2020, Dr Liz Dean from the School of Social and Political Sciences will explore the significance of Birrarung (the Yarra River). In 2017 the Victorian Government implemented the landmark Yarra River Protection Wilip-gin Birrarung murron Act
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Free

RHSV History Bookclub

RHSV, Gordon Moffatt Room 239 A'Beckett St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

This will be the inaugural meeting of our History Bookclub. And the first book chosen is Chloe Hooper's The Arsonist: A mind on fire.  The bookclub will focus on Victorian history but there may be little deviations. It will be moderated at first but it is planned for it to be self-sufficient. We will organise
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Free

2020 McIntyre Lecture: Nigel Lewis

Just Theatre, Kew Court House 188 High Street, Kew, VIC, Australia

Nigel Lewis is a heritage architect who entered private practice in 1976. Early projects included the first urban conservation projects for many parts of inner Melbourne and rural historic site surveys. As a resident of Kew for a large part of his life, his knowledge and interest in contemporary architecture is long-standing. The Kew Historical
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$20

Ceremony to unveil a plaque to the Sparrow family

Sparrow Farm Lake Gorrie Road, Macarthur, VIC, Australia

Tony Wright wrote a terrific article in The Age on Saturday 7 March, The Sparrows fell, and the town won't forget. It tells of the big flood of March 1946 when Hamilton, Casterton, Heywood, Portland, Port Fairy and Warrnambool and all the villages in between were engulfed by floods. On Sunday 15 March at 2pm
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Hidden Melbourne: A Photographic Story of Melbourne Through the Ages with Barney Meyer

Monash Art Gallery 860 Ferntree Gully Road, Wheelers Hill, VIC, Australia

A Photographic Story of Melbourne Through the Ages looks at two major events which took place in the 1800s: The birth of photography and the birth of Melbourne; the most liveable city in the world. One location in Melbourne is most remarkable from the perspective of the history of the city and of image-making technology.
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What the Little Bird didn’t tell me

RHSV ZOOM by Invitation , Australia

Professor Lynette Russell questions whether there are there some family secrets and necessary lies that should never be told?  And she hopes that these reflections will have something to say to other family historians.