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Bonegilla Migrant Experience: Virtual Tour Launch

The Cube 118 Hovell St, Wodonga, VIC, Australia

Authors Paul Grover and Bruce Pennay will introduce a new self-guided 3D virtual tour and showcase innovative history investigations on the new Investigating Bonegilla website.

Celebration of the 90th birthday of Professor John Riddoch Poynter AO

RHSV, Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

The Royal Historical Society of Victoria is hosting a A SPARKLING MORNING TEA TO CELEBRATE THE 90th BIRTHDAY OF Professor John Riddoch Poynter AO On Friday 8 November 2019 at 10:30am for 11am  at the rooms of the RHSV, Ground Floor, 239 A’Beckett Street, Melbourne We invite the family, friends, colleagues and students of Professor
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Free

Congress for International Cooperation and Disarmament  (CICD) celebrates 60 years

Unitarian Peace Memorial Church 110 Grey St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

On 10 November 2019 CICD will celebrate 60 years of active campaigning on peace and nuclear disarmament, social justice and much more… We’d like to invite you to celebrate this with us at our anniversary function. So, please join us as we continue to fight for peace and to Ban the Bomb! Speakers include: Joan Coxsedge: anti
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Lecture. Farming the Mallee: Visions and Realities 1890-present

RHSV ZOOM by Invitation , Australia

We are honoured that our last major lecture for 2019 will be delivered by Professor Katie Holmes, Director, Centre for the Study of the Inland and co-author of the soon-to-be-published Mallee Country: Land, People, History together with Richard Broome, Charles Fahey and Andrea Gaynor. In the early 1890s the Victorian Mallee was seen as a
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Free – $20.00

Those Creative Liardets

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

We welcome and encourage you to come and celebrate the 180th anniversary of Wilbraham and Caroline Liardet's arrival to the shores of 'The Beach' - later Sandridge (Port Melbourne). Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation Society is proud to present a collection of beautiful artworks and creative pieces from some of their descendants. This exhibition celebrates
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Free

BOOK LAUNCH INVITATION to Mallee Country: Land, People, History

RHSV, Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

The Royal Historical Society of Victoria and Monash University Publishing are delighted to invite you the launch of Mallee Country: Land, People, History By Richard Broome, Charles Fahey, Andrea Gaynor and Katie Holmes Mallee Country will be launched by Tom Griffiths, Emeritus Professor of History, ANU. With a special performance by the celebrated gum leaf
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Free

The launch of Melbourne’s Twenty Decades

RHSV, Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

The RHSV invites our members and friends to attend the launch of our latest book, Melbourne's Twenty Decades.  To be launched by Emeritus Laureate Professor Stuart Macintyre AO FAHA FASSA.

Free

ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW. MODULE 5: LOOKING AFTER DIGITAL FILES

The RHSV is offering a series of 6 linked workshops which cover cataloguing and digitisation. This series of workshops starts with basic concepts and builds in complexity. We have spaced the workshops so that participants have time in which to put into practice their new skills before the next workshop. Some participants will want to
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$25.00 – $35

Explorations Series – Living with the Hume Dam, 1919-2019

Commerical Club 618 Dean Street, Albury, NSW, Australia

In 1919 work began on Hume Dam with celebration and acclaim. When it was completed in 1936 it was hailed as an engineering and political achievement, indeed, a nation-building project. How do we understand its history and legacy now in 2019? Join river system and dam managers, environmentalists, historians, photographers and musicians as they share
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