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Activities

French Instrumental Music at Holy Trinity

Presenter(s): 
Sylvan Ensemble
Start: 
Sunday 11 Dec 2011 - 2:00pm
Location: 
Holy Trinity Church East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
$20 ($15 concession)

French Instrumental Music
(1880-1962)

Feauring the music of
Poulenc, Satie, Saint Saens, Faure, d’Indy

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Heritage versus Progress

Presenter(s): 
Prof. Michael Buxton
Start: 
Wednesday 19 Oct 2011 - 8:00pm
Location: 
Clarendon Terrace, 210 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Members free; non-members $5.00

Dr. Michael Buxton is Professor, Environment and Planning with the School of Social Science and Planning, RMIT University.  He has almost 25 years experience in environment and planning in Victoria at local government, regional authority and state government levels, and at RMIT University.  He has extensive experience in policy development at international, national, state and local levels.

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Researching the History of Your House

Presenter(s): 
Prof. Miles Lewis
Start: 
Wednesday 17 Aug 2011 - 8:00pm
Location: 
Clarendon Street, 210 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Members free; non-members $5.00

Prof. Miles Lewis, is an architectural historian, and Professor in the Faculty of Architecture, Building & Planning at the University of Melbourne.  He is the author of many books and countless papers on architectural history, heritage protection and urban planning.  He is recognised internationally as an expert in his field.  He is well known to our society and is always a popular speaker.

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John James Clark - Life and Architecture

Presenter(s): 
Dr. Andrew Dodd
Start: 
Wednesday 15 Jun 2011 - 8:00pm
Location: 
Clarendon Terrace, 210 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Members free; non-members $5.00

John James ClarkJohn James Clark (1838-1915) designed many famous public buildings in Australia including, in Melbourne, the Treasury Building and Government House. He lived at 104 Gipps Street from 1869-1871. Our speaker, Dr. Andrew Dodd, completed his PhD thesis on J.J. Clark at Melbourne University working with Prof. Miles Lewis and is now a senior lecturer in Journalism at Swinburne University.

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Tom Wills

Presenter(s): 
Greg de Moore
Start: 
Wednesday 20 Apr 2011 - 8:00pm
Location: 
Clarendon Terrace, 210 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Members free; non-members $5.00

Tom Wills statue in Yarra ParkTom Wills statue in Yarra ParkTom Wills, a star cricketer, is credited with creating the game of Australian Rules Football to keep members of the cricket team fit over the winter months.  But there was much more to his life than just sport.  Greg de Moore will tell us his extraordinary story. 

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Woman's Christian Temperance Union - Exposing Melbourne's Shameful Secrets

Presenter(s): 
Dr. Anna Blainey Warner
Start: 
Wednesday 20 Oct 2010 - 8:15pm
Location: 
Clarendon Terrace, 210 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Members free; non-members $5.00

Dr. Anna Blainey Warner will tell us how women in the 1890s alerted the public to the sexual assault and prostitution of young girls and of the controversy that followed. Anna is a freelance historian whose PhD was on the Australian Woman's Christian Temperance Union in the Nineteenth Century.

It is known that the Woman's Christian Temperance Union was instrumental in giving women the vote. What is less known is its protest against the sexual exploitation and abuse of women and children.

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Annual General Meeting

Start: 
Wednesday 20 Oct 2010 - 8:00pm
Location: 
Clarendon Terrace, 210 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
None

To be followed immediately by Dr. Anna Blainey speaking on the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and its campaign against exploitation of woman and children in the late 1800s.

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Roy Morgan - Founder of Roy Morgan Research

Presenter(s): 
Gary Morgan
Start: 
Wednesday 18 Aug 2010 - 8:00pm
Location: 
Clarendon Terrace, 210 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Members free; non-members $5.00

1942 Roy Morgan Gallup Poll1942 Roy Morgan Gallup PollOn 5 July 1942 the Roy Morgan "Gallup Poll" reported that "the employment of women conductors on trams and buses is strongly approved throughout Australia." Recent polling finds that Australians are still of the same mind.

Roy Morgan founded his market research company in 1941 only 6 years after George Gallup founded the Gallup Poll. Those were the pioneering days in the commercial application of statistics and psychology in opinion polling and market research. Gary Morgan is going to give us the inside story on his father and tell us why those surveys won't stop, even though we made up our minds 68 years ago.

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Heritage Conservation

Presenter(s): 
John Briggs
Start: 
Wednesday 16 Jun 2010 - 8:00pm
Location: 
Clarendon Terrace, 210 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Members free; non-members $5.00

Fitzroy Town Hall - 1874Fitzroy Town Hall - 1874Conserving the Heritage of East Melbourne is the one of the principal aims of our Society. Whether it is the renovation of our own home or a public building, the depredations of time create many challenges for the heritage architect many of which can't be anticipated.

John Briggs is an architect and a conservation advisor to the City of Melbourne. He has been involved in many major projects including in East Melbourne. Using his recent experience in restoring the Fitzroy Town Hall John will share with us some of the challenges and solutions.

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US Military Forces at the MCG

Presenter(s): 
Alf Batchelder
Start: 
Wednesday 21 Apr 2010 - 8:00pm
Location: 
Clarendon Terrace, 210 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Members free; non-members $5.00

The Melbourne Cricket Club Library has recently received some new material, including photos, dating to the Second World War when US military forces were based at the MCG.  Alf Batchelder will

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