Activities
A Tear in the Glass: Nina Stanton's life journey through the fine and decorative arts
Nina Stanton was director and curator of local house museum, The Johnston Collection 2000-2008. When she died in 2009 she left behind an incomplete memoir with a request to writer and close f
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Clarendon Terrace and HER first neighbours
Clarendon Terrace, once home to the Menzies Foundation and venue for our lectures, has recently been reinvented as Her Place Women’s Museum. Her Place Women’s Museum Australia is a not-for-pr
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Spencer Street Bridge: a surprising history
Fiona will be known to most of us as the peerless local history librarian stationed at our East Melbourne Library. She has made a detailed study of the Spencer Street Bridge and discovered a
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'Sleepers, Wake' Revisited
Join us as Dr Barry Jones AC revisits for the 21st century his best-selling and widely influential book on technology and the future of work.
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Walking tour: Fitzroy Gardens and its Vanished Statues
Academic in art, architecture and design, Dr Monique Webber will take us on a walk through the Fitzroy Gardens. She will explain exactly where some of the old statues stood and will iden
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AGM followed by 'Geoffrey Blainey's East Melbourne'
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The Man Who Carried the Nation's Grief
Carol Rosenhain’s moving book describes the extraordinary work of James Lean.
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Eucharist, Lunch and Recital of new Holy Trinity Organ
The Parish Council and the Parishioners of
HOLY TRINITY EAST MELBOURNE
invite
The Members of the East Melbourne Historical Society
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Dr Adam Cairns
Max Griffiths will take us through the
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