Activities
25th Anniversary and the Importance of History
This will be our 25th Annual General Meeting. Following the AGM, and to mark the occasion, Dr Liz Rushen AM, as one of the founders of the Society, will take us back to its beginnings and tell us the story of how it all began.
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Hester Hornbrook and her Ragged Schools
Dr Ros Otzen is writing a biography of Hester Hornbrook (1785-1862) who founded the Ragged School Association which provided free education for Melbourne’s destitute children. She will bring to light the work of this remarkable woman, and the band of women who supported her,
many of whom were East Melbourne residents.
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Book launch - 'Yarra Park State School No. 1406: A Recovered History' and 'The Lost Roll of Honor of Yarra Park State School'
Ian Hind for a number of years has been working on the history of Yarra Park State School. Ian lives in the school’s old shelter shed (converted, of course), and a significant part of his working life was spent in the Victorian Education Department, so he is well placed to write such a history. The school opened in 1874 and closed in 1987 and is of considerable historical and archit
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Our Yarra River – its past, its future?
Ian is a former senior executive in the coal mining and gas industries, but after 27 years he switched his focus to the natural environment.
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A Fresh Look at The Johnston Collection
Dr Louise Voll Box was appointed as CEO of The Johnston Collection in July 2023. The previous
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Australian Women Artists
Following the success of our tour to the NGV in St Kilda Road last year when local resident, Krystyna Campbell-Pretty, arranged a tour of several portraits she had donated, this years’ tour demonstrates the long-overlooked talent of several Australian women artists, focussing once again on works Krystyna has donated, including Botanic Gardens by Emmeline Pritchard.
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AGM and Mystery Photographs: an unveiling
AGM followed by a talk presented by Fiona Campbell
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Dom Bonadio: A Life
Dominic Bonadio, who most of us know as Dom from Il Duca restaurant, as a lockdown project, got to work writing his family story. Dom will bring this story to life for us in what is sure to be a talk both historically interesting and entertaining. As he puts it:
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The Art of Being Melbourne
In her Royal Historical Society of Victoria award-winning book The Art of Being Melbourne, Maree Coote creates a clever history of Melbourne as seen through artworks of Melbourne's urban landscape. Art meets History as she tracks the Melbourne zeitgeist through 20 decades of art from 1835 to today.
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The Men Who Went to War
In 2014, Major-General Mike O’Brien gave us a list of men with a connection to East Melbourne who had volunteered for the 1st World War.
As a result of enthusiastic volunteers, we now have an archive of around 600 war records. some of which we would like to share with you at our April meeting.
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