Nillumbik Historical Society invites you to a presentation and talk, The WWI Battlefields of Verdun, by Terry Phillips at 2pm Sunday 16 March 
Terry has visited the battlefields of France and Belgium for many years. He is a military history expert who regularly gives talks and presentations to community groups and schools. The presentation will be followed by a light afternoon tea

Born into a genteel family of pastoralists and investors in colonial Victoria, Mabel Louise Kelly (1887–1973), or ‘Mab’ to those who knew her, would grow up to make an enormous contribution to Victoria and Australia. Most evidently, it was made through bequests to the University of Melbourne and through the donation to the university of
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Join members of the Malvern Historical Society Committee for a lecture by author Professor Richard Broome at the Malvern Town Hall on Wednesday 19 March 2025 at 7:30pm. Professor Richard Broome, AM FAHA FRHSV, will present a lecture on 'The Power of Place. The Story of Melbourne Lanes'. He will discuss the making of Melbourne's
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Session 1: 6pm - 7.30pm Session 2: 8pm - 9.30pm Film pioneer Louise Lovely was Australia’s most successful actress in Hollywood’s early silent era and Labassa’s most celebrated resident of the 1930s. Delve into Miss Lovely’s extraordinary life story as a star of stage and screen and learn what her splash of glamour brought to
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