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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.

Gippsland Workshop 3: SCANNING FOR BEGINNERS

Federation University Gippsland Campus Library Northways Road, Churchill, VIC, Australia

POSTPONED until further notice.
This workshop is aimed at those who are new to scanning. It will cover some terminology relating to digital images, and how to prepare documents for scanning before participants scan some documents using flatbed scanners.

$30 – $45

Gippsland Workshop 4: DIGITISING BOOKS AND PHOTOGRAPHING OBJECTS

Federation University Gippsland Campus Library Northways Road, Churchill, VIC, Australia

POSTPONED until further notice.
In this intermediate digitisation workshop, we will introduce participants to best-practice digitisation techniques and procedures. Participants will have the opportunity to digitise books using a book scanner, and to set up a site for object photography.

$30 – $45

Back to Hastings

Hastings Club 155 MARINE PDE, HASTINGS, VIC, Australia

Please contact the organiser before attending this event in case it has been cancelled. We are planning a reunion of all those people who remember their time in Hastings or those people wishing to socialise with us and reminisce about life in Hastings prior to 1970. Snacks provided. Drinks at your cost. Please RSVP with
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$15