SEMINAR DAY: MAXIMISE OPPORTUNITIES Strengthen your work within and beyond your society
RHSV Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett St, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaThe seminar days resume in 2023 with the first being held in Melbourne ‘in person’ and ‘by Zoom’. The program is based on information gleaned from calls to societies during lockdowns along with more recent communications. In a day that seeks to strengthen the best of existing work and inspire fresh approaches, all RHSV members are invited to learn from informed speakers and share their society’s successes.
National Trust Vintage Clothing Sale 2023
North Magdelan Laundry Abbotsford Convent, 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford, VIC, AustraliaShop vintage and designer clothing from the late 1800s to the present day. It’s time to mark your Melbourne fashion calendar, the iconic National Trust Vintage Clothing Sale is returning
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Polish Museum and Archives in Australia: 30th Anniversary Celebration
Polish Club Albion 19 Carrington Drive, Albion, VIC, AustraliaIn March the Polish Museum and Archives of Australia celebrates its 30th anniversary (slightly delayed because of COVID!) and all are welcome to join in Entry is free and food,
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WRITING HISTORY GROUP
ZOOM Join from anywhere in the worldDr Cheryl Griffin leads this group which has been meeting since 2020. This group is for people who are tackling writing a history project or two and want a sounding
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Harold Holt: Always One Step Further a presentation by Dr Ross Walker
Camberwell Library Meeting Room 340 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria, AustraliaCamberwell Historical Society hosts this event. Harold Holt: Always One Step Further, details Holt’s life as both a person and a politician. The story is told in three sections: Holt’s
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Writers on Campus series – Writing the Past
La Trobe University Plenty Road, Bundoora, VIC, Australia‘Good history is a high-wire gravity-defying act of balance and grace,’ Tom Griffiths wrote recently, describing historians as writers who, ‘have to forsake their own world for a period – and then, somehow, find their way back.’ In our first session of Writers on Campus for 2023 we speak with two historians who are adept at walking that high-wire, and at time travel. Come hear two of La Trobe’s most acclaimed historians, Judith Brett and Katie Holmes, discuss why they do what they do, and how they approach the work and craft of making history, in conversation with Kelly Gardiner
Vera Deakin – Search for the Missing by Carole Woods
Multi Cultural Hub 506 Elizabeth St, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaVera Deakin, daughter of former Prime Minister Alfred Deakin, rallied to the British imperial cause in 1915 by assuming a leadership role in the fledgling Australian Red Cross Society. Aged
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Oral history interviewing for beginners: training
ZOOM Join from anywhere in the worldLearn the basics of oral history interviewing from two of Australia's most experienced oral history trainers, Sarah Rood and Al Thomson
This is an online workshop, conducted via Zoom.
Altona Homestead Devonshire Tea
Altona Homestead 128 Queen Street, Altona, Victoria, AustraliaThe Altona-Laverton Historical Society members and volunteers invite you to drop into the Altona Homestead on the first Sunday of the Month (February to December) to enjoy a serve of our famous Devonshire Tea or Cream Tea or Cornish Tea, anyway you look at them they are delicious.
MARKETING FORUMS
ZOOM Join from anywhere in the worldChristina Browning, the RHSV Marketing Officer, leads these forums which each month tackle a different aspect of marketing for historical societies - they tend to concentrate on social media as
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