Box Hill Cemetery Tour
Box Hill Cemetery 395 Middleborough Road, Box Hill, VIC, AustraliaTo coincide with the beginning of Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day in March, our tour will focus on women in Box Hill cemetery. We will visit the graves
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Scoresby Steamfest 2020
National Steam Centre 1200 Ferntree Gully Road, Scoresby, VIC, AustraliaA unique experience with demonstrations and exhibits of Australian domestic, industrial and agricultural heritage. Our engines are impressive to see in action with some of Victoria's best steam, diesel and
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Up from the vaults: As the River Flows
Old Quadrangle University of Melbourne First floor, Parkville, VIC, AustraliaThe changing shape of Birrarung (Yarra River) In the first outing of our ‘Up from the Vaults’ series for 2020, Dr Liz Dean from the School of Social and Political
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RHSV History Bookclub
RHSV, Gordon Moffatt Room 239 A'Beckett St, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaThis will be the inaugural meeting of our History Bookclub. And the first book chosen is Chloe Hooper's The Arsonist: A mind on fire. The bookclub will focus on Victorian
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2020 McIntyre Lecture: Nigel Lewis
Just Theatre, Kew Court House 188 High Street, Kew, VIC, AustraliaNigel Lewis is a heritage architect who entered private practice in 1976. Early projects included the first urban conservation projects for many parts of inner Melbourne and rural historic site
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Ceremony to unveil a plaque to the Sparrow family
Sparrow Farm Lake Gorrie Road, Macarthur, VIC, AustraliaTony Wright wrote a terrific article in The Age on Saturday 7 March, The Sparrows fell, and the town won't forget. It tells of the big flood of March 1946
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Hidden Melbourne: A Photographic Story of Melbourne Through the Ages with Barney Meyer
Monash Art Gallery 860 Ferntree Gully Road, Wheelers Hill, VIC, AustraliaA Photographic Story of Melbourne Through the Ages looks at two major events which took place in the 1800s: The birth of photography and the birth of Melbourne; the most
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What the Little Bird didn’t tell me
RHSV ZOOM by Invitation , AustraliaProfessor Lynette Russell questions whether there are there some family secrets and necessary lies that should never be told? And she hopes that these reflections will have something to say to other family historians.
‘Wings of Peace 1920-2020’ Centenary of Australia First Official Air Race, Serpentine Victoria
Please contact the organiser before attending this event in case it has been cancelled. In 1920 post WWI, the small village of Serpentine Victoria was selected to be the starting
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Gippsland Workshop 3: SCANNING FOR BEGINNERS
Federation University Gippsland Campus Library Northways Road, Churchill, VIC, AustraliaPOSTPONED until further notice.
This workshop is aimed at those who are new to scanning. It will cover some terminology relating to digital images, and how to prepare documents for scanning before participants scan some documents using flatbed scanners.