Past Events
March 2020
2020 McIntyre Lecture: Nigel Lewis
Nigel 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 surveys. As a resident of Kew for a large part of his life, his knowledge and interest in contemporary architecture is long-standing. The Kew Historical Society's 2020 McIntyre Lecture will explore how modern buildings slip through the net due to formulaic application of planning controls. Street presentation of modernist buildings…
March 2022
Kew Historical Society annual McIntyre Lecture
The Society’s annual McIntyre Lecture is planned for the 9th March and will be held in the Just Theatre at the Kew Courthouse, 188 High Street, Kew. We will be serving refreshments from 7.30pm with the Lecture commencing at 8pm. The Lecture will also be available via Zoom meetings. Katherine Sheedy from Way Back When Consulting Historians will be speaking about the 70 year history of the Kew Elder Citizens Association. Please see the below for booking details for both…
October 2022
Kew Historical Society, Annual Dickinson Lecture by Dr Rosalie Triolo
Kew Historical Society. Annual Dickinson Lecture; Remembering Our State School Teachers and Pupils of Kew and Surrounds: The Home Front and Battle Front, 1914-18 presented by Dr Rosalie Triolo The Great War profoundly touched the lives of Australian teachers, school children and local communities. Many teachers fought and died, and were joined by their older students. For years after, the names of those who fell were respectfully displayed on school honor boards, in honor books and remembered by other commemorative…
March 2024
2024 McIntyre Lecture
2024 McIntyre Lecture -Kew Historical Society Inc FAILED AMBITIONS: A HISTORY OF KEW COTTAGES by Dr Lee-Ann Monk & Dr David Henderson Opened in 1887, Kew Cottages was Australia’s first purpose built institution for people with intellectual disabilities. Contemporaries considered it a ‘distinct advance on anything yet done for the feebleminded children in Australia’. Five decades later the institution had become the subject of almost universal condemnation. In the words of Rohan Rivett, the cottages had become ‘a hillside of…
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