Activities
Margaret McLean: the first signatory on the 1891 Petition for Women's Suffrage
Margaret McLean circa 1902In celebration of the centenary of women's suffrage in Victoria Dr. Liz Rushen will talk on Margaret McLean and her contribution to the cause. Mrs. McLean lived at 'Torloisk', on the corner of Vale Street and Wellington Parade South. She was the first signatory on the 1891 Petition for Votes for Women.
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Winston Burchett: a life remembered
Stephanie Alexander shared memories of her father Winston Burchett, well known to all East Melbourne residents as local historian and author of East Melbourne, People, Places Problems 1837-1977 and East Melbourne Walkabout. His Conservation Reports and Index to City of Melbourne Notices of Intent to Build are still the basis of much local and architectural history research today.
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Visit to Goold Museum and MacKillop Museum
The Goold Museum 24 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, houses a collection relating to the history of the Catholic Church in Victoria.
The MacKillop Museum, within the newly established MacKillop Heritage Centre in the old St. Joseph's Hostel, at 362 Albert Street, East Melbourne, focuses on the remarkable life of Mary MacKillop.
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Members' Christmas Party
This year our annual Christmas function will be held at Braemar, one of East Melbourne's most notable houses. Architect, Geoffrey Borrack, will tell us a little of the house's history and his own involvement in saving it from the wreckers. We are asking visitors to wear flat shoes in order to minimize damage to the timber floors - all the better to enjoy the usual extensive array of refreshments.
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Holy Trinity - 150 years
A Talk in Commemoration of 150 years of Anglican presence and the centenary of the consecration of Holy Trinity Church.
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Eugène von Guérard: his life and work
Ruth Pullin shared research from her PhD thesis on Eugène von Guérard, the Austrian born landscape painter who lived at “Little Parndon” in Gipps Street East Melbourne for twenty years.
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Dr. Howitt's Circle
Caroline Clemente's M.A. thesis at the University of Melbourne was "The Private Face of Patronage: The Howitts, Artistics and Intellectual Philanthropists in Early Melbourne Society."
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Whelan the Wrecker
Robyn Annear was awarded a State Library Creative Fellowship from 2003-2004 to research Whelan the Wrecker and was elected to the State Library Board in September 2006. She has served as a judge in the Age Book of the Year and Victorian Premier's Literary Awards since 2001.
On 18 April, she will speak about the lost landscape of East Melbourne - the buildings demolished by Whelan the Wrecker. Don't miss this opportunity to hear one of Victoria's foremost historians.
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East Melbourne Festa
The historical society will have its own stall where we will be on hand to give out information about the society and promote interest in our local history.
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