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Gone to War as Sister: East Melbourne Nurses in the Great War

Start: 
Thursday 20 Aug 2015 - 10:00am
Location: 
East Melbourne Library, 122 George Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
No charge

In the centenary year of the ANZAC landing at Gallipoli the East Melbourne Historical Society pays tribute to the nurses who served overseas and who had some connection with East Melbourne.  S

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Farewell, Dear People: Australia's Gifted Lost Generation of World War 1

Presenter(s): 
Ross McMullin
Start: 
Wednesday 22 Apr 2015 - 8:00pm
Location: 
Clarendon Terrace, 210 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne,
Entry fee: 
Members free; non-members $5.00

Dr Ross McMullin is an historian and biographer whose major interests are Australian history, politics and sport.

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The 100 year walk

Presenter(s): 
Rosemarie Smith
Start: 
Wednesday 18 Feb 2015 - 10:30am
Location: 
Meet at the gates of Bishopscourt, 120 Clarendon Street
Entry fee: 
Members free; non-members $5.00

Rosemarie will take us on a walk demonstrating the changes in Melbourne's domestic architecture over 100 years as represented in East Melbourne.

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For King and Country: East Melbourne Volunteers and the Great War

Start: 
Friday 17 Oct 2014 - 1:00pm
Location: 
East Melbourne Libary, 122 George Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Free

This exhibition is timed to coincide with the anniversary of the departure from Victoria of the first troops to serve overseas.  HMAT Orvieto, the convoy’s flagship, left Port Melbourne on 21 October 1914.  Many East Melbourne residents were aboard it and other ships in the convoy.  Our exhibition will tell some of their stories, and of others who enlisted later.  

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Adapting to Climate Change in the City of Melbourne (after AGM)

Presenter(s): 
Ian Shears,
Start: 
Wednesday 15 Oct 2014 - 8:00pm
Location: 
Clarendon Terrace, 210 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne,
Entry fee: 
Members free; non-members $5.00

Ian Shears, Manager, Urban Landscapes, City of Melbourne leads the City’s climate change adaptation program for urban landscapes.

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Ola Cohn, sculptor

Presenter(s): 
Dr. Barbara Lemon
Start: 
Wednesday 20 Aug 2014 - 8:00pm
Location: 
Clarendon Terrace, 210 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne,
Entry fee: 
Members free; non-members $5.00

Ola Cohn was the sculptor best known as the creator of the Fairies’ Tree in the Fitzroy Gardens but was more important as a pioneer of modernist sculpture in Australia.  Her studio was in East

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Dames of East Melbourne: the design story

Presenter(s): 
Professor Harriet Edquist
Start: 
Wednesday 18 Jun 2014 - 8:00pm
Location: 
Clarendon Terrace, 210 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne,
Entry fee: 
Members free; non-members $5.00

Our speaker, Harriet Edquist, is Professor of Architectural History in the School of Architecture and Design at RMIT, and Director of the RMIT Design Archives.

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East Melbourne's Nurses in the First World War

Presenter(s): 
Janet Scarfe
Start: 
Wednesday 16 Apr 2014 - 8:00pm
Location: 
Clarendon Terrace, 210 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne,
Entry fee: 
Members free; non-members $5.00

Janet Scarfe is an adjunct research associate at Monash University.

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Midsummer Murders - A walk

Presenter(s): 
Rosemarie Smith
Start: 
Wednesday 19 Feb 2014 - 2:00pm
Location: 
Meet outside 110 Jolimont Road, Jolimont
Entry fee: 
$10.00

Join us on a walk (approx. 2.5km) featuring some of the darker apsects of East Melbourne's history, and afterwards have coffee and cake at GG, 150 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne.

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East Melbourne's First Residence: Bishopscourt

Presenter(s): 
Dr. Elizabeth Rushen
Start: 
Wednesday 16 Oct 2013 - 8:00pm
Location: 
Clarendon Terrace, 210 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Members free; non-members $5.00

Our Annual General Meeting will start at 8.00 p.m.  Following the AGM Dr.

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