Activities
Heritage Week - Lost Property - buildings lost to the wrecker’s ball
Hurry! Last days! Don't Miss Out!
An exhibition of pictures of local buildings which have been lost to the wrecker's ball.
Open during Library hours (except when the community room is otherwise booked).
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Visit to St. Nicholas Antiochian Orthodox Church, East Melbourne
Dr. Trevor Batrouney will lead our tour and tell us about the history of the Antiochian Orthodox Church in Melbourne, of its establishment in East Melbourne; as well as the history of St. Nicholas and the significance of its contents.
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French Instrumental Music at Holy Trinity
French Instrumental Music
(1880-1962)
Feauring the music of
Poulenc, Satie, Saint Saens, Faure, d’Indy
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Heritage versus Progress
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
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
John 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
Tom 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
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
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
1942 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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