We are thrilled to launch the inaugural Gwenda D. M. Jones Memorial lecture as part of our Distinguished Lecture series. Eminent historian, Richard Aitken will deliver the inaugural lecture, ‘“Orontes” adventure: introducing the Jones Collection of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria’. Richard will use Gwen’s 1953–54 study tour of Britain and Europe as a springboard for discussing the Jones Collection. Richard is best known as a garden historian but he was also a friend of Gwen and her family. During COVID lockdowns Richard worked assiduously to organise and annotate the Jones Collection. His deep knowledge of Gwen and her family adds immeasurably to the value of the collection. 

🎭 The Dominatrix Next Door - Mother by day, Dominatrix by night. When a cash-strapped single mother of two in suburban Melbourne has a fun idea to start a side hustle running workshops for hens’ parties, she has no idea it will lead her on a surreal adventure (or twenty) through the debaucherous underground world
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Hosted by the Glen Eira Historical Society. We invite members and friends of Glen Eira Historical Society to join us at a presentation from Professor Boris Frankel. Boris will tell us the dramatic story of how his family (St Kilda residents) became 'subversives' in Australia and the USSR during the Cold War. Boris' book No Country
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Join members of the Malvern Historical Society with Guest speaker, professional historian, Dr Fiona Gatt, who will talk about ‘The forgotten class? Shopkeepers of nineteenth-century Melbourne’. Dr Fiona Gatt will investigate and compare the shopkeepers who operated in three distinct representative suburbs of nineteenth-century Melbourne; genteel Malvern, inner urban North Melbourne and industrial Footscray. All
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You are invited to join the Stanley Community and attend the HUME & HOVELL BICENTENARY 2024 COMMEMORATION Friends of Stanley Athenaeum Present Bicentenary of Hume & Hovell ‘THEY PASSED THIS WAY’ Sunday 24 November 2024 at 10am Hume & Hovell Monument (Myrtleford - Stanley Road) Afterwards at the Stanley Athenaeum to see ‘They Passed This
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