The Geology of Williamstown and surrounds
Williamstown Town Hall Level 1 Meeting room/ 104 Ferguson Street, Williamstown, VictoriaPresented by: Ross Cayley, Senior Geologist (Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action) Williamstown Historical Society - History presentations Did you know that the Williamstown Railway Line accidentally follows the deeply buried course of an ancient river, or what a 'lateral stream' is? - Do you know that the growth of the New Zealand Alps
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Historic Country 3 Courts Car Tour Weekend
Interested in the history of Law in Victoria? Experience 3 historic courtrooms Three Court Houses are opening their doors for a weekend of car touring. It is a leisurely drive between Port Fairy, Macarthur & Penshurst in the vicinity of vineyard lunches and cottage accommodation. Penshurst Court House History Centre, 33 Martin Street Penshurst Macarthur Court
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Monash Park Historical Signage
Shepparton Heritagfe Centre 154 Welford Street, Shepparton, VICMonash Park Historical Signage, Saturday 25th May, 2.00pm. We are thrilled to announce the highly anticipated official unveiling of the Monash Park Signage Project, an exciting initiative showcasing Shepparton's rich early history. These panels offer a captivating glimpse into the past, particularly focusing on the area along the river at the back of Welsford Street between
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Incinerator History Tours
Incinerator Gallery 180 Holmes Road, Aberfeldie, VIC, AustraliaDiscover the captivating history of the Essendon incinerator on our monthly volunteer-led history tour. Strategically located near parkland and residences, this iconic structure emerged in 1929, revolutionising waste disposal was designed by the offices of visionary architects Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin. Join us as our knowledgeable guides unveil the ‘Destructor’s’ transformative journey,
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Historic Country 3 Courts Car Tour Weekend
Interested in the history of Law in Victoria? Experience 3 historic courtrooms Three Court Houses are opening their doors for a weekend of car touring. It is a leisurely drive between Port Fairy, Macarthur & Penshurst in the vicinity of vineyard lunches and cottage accommodation. Penshurst Court House History Centre, 33 Martin Street Penshurst Macarthur Court
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RHSV AGM + 2024 Weston Bate Oration: Dr Fiona Gatt
RHSV Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett St, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaThe forgotten class? Shopkeepers of nineteenth-century Melbourne
Shopkeepers played a vital role in the functioning of nineteenth-century Melbourne society. They owned the businesses where residents obtained goods, from basic daily needs to the flights and fancies of an emerging modern consumer culture. Echoes of their presence live on in the shopfronts and main shopping streets. This lecture investigates and compares the shopkeepers who operated in three distinct, representative suburbs of nineteenth-century Melbourne: genteel Malvern, inner urban North Melbourne and industrial Footscray. In doing so it provides a genuine comparative cross-section of the urban retail trade in this period and reveals the subtle differences between these localities in terms of the prestige and identity ascribed to shopkeepers within the socio-economic fabric of these local societies. Yet across all three towns (or suburbs), shopkeepers held an important and unique role, one that cannot be understood through the same lens as the working class or middle class.
Making Public Histories: Energy Transitions: Historicising Australia’s Nuclear Debate – 5pm (webinar)
ZOOM Join from anywhere in the worldAustralia is in the midst of an energy transition, but specific policies and decisions around the shift to more renewable forms of energy production, storage and use have become the subject of heated debate. Historians have an important role to play in this debate, shedding light on the historical factors that shape ideas and attitudes
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The Great Orange Peel Panic: and other stories from Melbourne
39 St Edmonds Road, Prahran, VIC 3181 39 St Edmonds Road, Prahran, VIC, Australia🍊 The Great Orange Peel Panic: and other stories from Melbourne Did you know around the 1860's civic reprobates who discarded orange peel in the streets of Melbourne, risked life and limb? Apparently new flagstone paving stones, combined with discarded orange peels, were a serious hazard. Oranges were a popular snack at the time and
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Out of the Straight-Jacket: the art of anti-colonial history
OnlinePROFESSIONAL HISTORIANS AUSTRALIA PROUDLY INVITES YOU TO THE 2024 WILSON HISTORY ORATION Out of the Straight-Jacket: the art of anti-colonial history An oration by Dr Rachel Buchanan From swamp to chateau to the House of Lords, as Dr Rachel Buchanan researched the wild, globetrotting journey of five magnificent 17th century carvings made by ancestors in
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‘Watandar, My Countryman’ screening
Shrine of Remembrance Birdwood Ave, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaJoin us at the Shrine for a screening of the heart-warming and eye-opening documentary film, Watandar, My Countryman. The documentary follows photographer and Human Rights Activist Muzafar Ali, who in 2015 resettled in Australia and became the first in five generations of his family to no longer be a refugee. When he discovers that Afghans
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