Join the Melbourne Maritime Heritage Network for their 2022 Christmas Gathering & Conversation
Mission to Seafarers 717 Flinders St, Docklands, VIC, AustraliaYour Invitation! Join the Melbourne Maritime Heritage Network for their 2022 Christmas Gathering & Conversation This year, MMHN is joining Offshore Specialist Ships Australia and many other maritime-related associations to celebrate on Friday 16 December, 6.00pm at the Mission to Seafarers 717 Flinders Street, Docklands All welcome Drinks at discounted bar prices and with finger
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RECONVENED AGM 2021
ZOOM Join from anywhere in the world112th RHSV RECONVENED ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AGENDA Friday 23 December 2022 at 10:00am To be held as an online live meeting with attendance by Zoom 1. Welcome and acknowledgement of country 2. Attendance and apologies 3. To receive and consider the Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2021 (as attached) 4. Meeting closed
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Hellenic Museum Summer School 2023: History & Culture of the Ancient World
The Hellenic Museum 280 William St, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaExplore ancient Greece and Rome with relaxed, entertaining courses looking at myth, history, philosophy, archaeology and more. By Dr Christopher Gribbin Spend a week at Melbourne’s Hellenic Museum this January, exploring the spectacular and fascinating world of the ancient Greeks and Romans. The Hellenic Museum Summer School offers a series of informative, relaxed and entertaining
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From the Baltic to the Pacific: The first Displaced Persons to arrive in Australia after WW2
ZOOM Join from anywhere in the worldIn early December 1947, the first post WW2 ‘Displaced Persons’ arrived in Melbourne. They were part of a group of over 800 refugees from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania selected for resettlement in Australia. This seminar looks at this historic journey, set against the backdrop of Australia’s attitudes and policies to migrants at the time. It also showcases the range of records available via the National Archives of Australia.
The Priory in the United States and the Establishment of the St John Volunteer Corps
St John Museum 26/47 Esplanade, Williamstown Beach, Victoria, AustraliaThis is the first lecture in 2023 for the St John Ambulance Historical Society (Vic). The paper will be delivered by Distinguished Professor Emeritus Richard Southby. Today the Order of St John is an international family of charities whose mission is to lead globally in First Aid and medical responses to community healthcare needs. The
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Rutherglen’s Historic Common School Museum celebrates its 150th Anniversary
Rutherglen Common School Museum Murray Street, Rutherglen, VIC, AustraliaRutherglen’s Historic Common School Museum celebrates their 150th Anniversary on Saturday morning the 21st of January 2023 at 10am.
The morning will be relaxed and informal, with a welcome, morning tea and mingling amongst Rutherglen locals and visitors.
Drop in for a look, a chat, and let us all just enjoy the wonderful old school building, which is still standing, being cared for and well used after 150
years.
CHINESE MUSEUM: CHINESE LUNAR NEW YEAR PROGRAM
Chinese Museum 22 Cohen Place, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaIn 2023, the Chinese Museum gets off to a BANG! with their biggest ever Chinese Lunar New Year program! On Friday 20th January, they open our Lucky Rabbit Exhibition, which reveals our traits and fortunes predicted by the 2023 Chinese Horoscope. On Sunday 22nd Jan, Chinese Lunar New Year Day, there will be discounted entry to the Chinese Museum as part of the day's street festival celebrations with includes the famous Millenium Dragon Parade.
Celebrating Women Teachers – the 62nd Pioneer Women’s Ceremony
Pioneer Women's Memorial Garden Kings Domain, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaThe National Council of Women Victoria celebrates Victoria’s pioneer women, past and present at this annual event. As 2022-23 is the 150th Anniversary of Free, Secular and Compulsory Education in Victoria, our focus will be on pioneering women teachers. Dr Deborah Towns OAM, co-author of A Secondary Education For All? A History of State Secondary Schooling in Victoria and author of articles on education and teachers in Government, Independent and Catholic schools, will highlight women pioneers in education and early schools in Victoria.
Launch of “Well Built: Simmie & Co Master Builders 1924 – 1978” exhibition
RHSV Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett St, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaJoin Dr Andrew Lemon FRHSV AM when he launches the exhibition, Well Built: Simmie & Co Master Builders 1924 - 1978 and book, Family Business: The Simmies of Simmie & Co and Harpsdale, both created by historian and curator, Dr Andrew Kilsby. Simmie & Co was a prominent building company in Melbourne (1924-1978) and in
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Eltham Lower Park
Eltham Senior Citizens' Centre Library Place, Eltham, VIC, AustraliaPrior to the extension of European people into the lands of the Nillum-bik in the late 1830s the Wurundjeri people had been meeting in the area now known as Eltham Lower Park for thousands of years. Waterway junctions had a particular attraction as tribal meeting places and the junction of the Diamond Creek with the
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