Revisiting Catani
RHSV ZOOM by Invitation , AustraliaSpeaker: Bill Russell Florentine born Public Works Department engineer Carlo Catani died 100 years ago, in July 1918. He is revered for the work he did, during nearly 40 years in the public service, in shaping key bits of the Melbourne and St Kilda we recognise. For our Melbourne Day lunchtime talk, former RHSV president
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The Biennial RHSV conference : War, Peace, Protest: Fifty Year Reflections on 1968
Drill Hall, Royal Historical Society Victoria 239 A'Beckett St, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaThe biennial RHSV conference has events over two days. On the evening of Friday 14 Sep we launch our exhibition on 70s Melbourne followed by the RHSV Augustus Wolskel lecture delivered by Peter Edwards. Then on Sunday 16 Sep (9:30am – 3:45pm) the keynote will be delivered by Seamus O’Hanlon. A full program of speakers
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History Week 2018
http://historyweek.org.au/ Each year the RHSV History Week grows in stature and number of events. It is a great hook to encourage community involvement in your history society or to focus some local media on what you do. The History Teachers Association of Victoria has been promoting History Week to their members across Victoria. For suggestions
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Lost Flocks & distraught shepherds: Captain Charles Swanston
RHSV ZOOM by Invitation , AustraliaEvening Lecture Time: 5:15pm drinks for a 5:45pm lecture Cost: Free for RHSV Members; $10 for Non-Members Melbourne by 1856 was growing in confidence and grandeur, as Henry Gritten’s fine painting of Swanston Street depicts. Captain Charles Swanston, the man
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A White Hot Flame
Camberwell Library Meeting Room 340 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria, AustraliaA White Hot Flame: Mary Montgomerie Bennett: Author, Educator, Activist for Indigenous Justice. A presentation by Dr Sue Taffe. All welcome. Sue Taffe is a Melbourne historian who has written about the contributions of twentieth century activists to campaigns for Aboriginal rights. She is the author of Black and White Together FCAATSI: the Federal Council for
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“Living Culture” by Lionel Launch – Mt Martha
The Briars Information Centre Nepean Highway, Mt. Martha, Victoria, AustraliaMornington & District Historical Society Annual Leslie Moorhead Lecture This years lecture is titled “Living Culture” by Lionel Launch an indigenous man who will take us through a variety of aspects of aboriginal culture, including medicinal plants and ending with a didgeridoo performance. Numbers are strictly limited. Book through Dawn 03 5977 0027. Cost is
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175th Anniversary of the Naming of Seymour
The general format will include a street parade on Sat 10 Nov, down Station St and up Tallarook St to finish at Kings Park, where there will be lots of displays by local groups and organisations. The Army at Puckapunyal are supporting us, not only on the Saturday for the parade and display, but also
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Hell Ship – The Journey of the Ticonderoga
Badcoe Hall Quarantine Station, Point Nepean, Victoria, AustraliaThe Nepean Historical Society is producing the play, 'Hell Ship – The Journey of the Ticonderoga' written and performed by Michael Veitch, at The Quarantine Station on 17th November at 2.00 and 7.30pm. It will be remarkable to hear this story told at the very place where the journey ended. In 1852, the handsome emigrant
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Exhibition: CARLO CATANI Visionary, Creator, Genius
Museo Italiano 199 Faraday Street, Carlton, Victoria, AustraliaCO.AS.IT. is proud to present Carlo Catani: Visionary, Creator, Genius the first exhibition of its type dedicated to one of Victoria's greatest civil engineers and a key figure in the development of the State of Victoria from 1876 to 1917. Catani dedicated over 41 years of his life to public service and helped shape our
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Putting it Out There: Melbourne in the 1970s
RHSV, Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaWe reflect on and explore the ways in which the life of the city and society were shaped by the changing ideas and actions of its citizens
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