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Activities

Annual General Meeting

Start: 
Wednesday 21 Oct 2009 - 7:30pm
Location: 
Clarendon Terrace, 210 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Free

The AGM of the East Melbourne Historical Society. The President and Treasurer will report to members and elections will be held for new officers and committee members.

The AGM will be followed immediately by a History of the Yarra River presented by Kristin Otto.

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The Fight to Legalise Abortion

Presenter(s): 
Dr. Jo Wainer
Start: 
Wednesday 23 Sep 2009 - 8:00pm
Location: 
Clarendon Terrace, 210 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Members free; non-members $5.00

Your body, your life, your choicesYour body, your life, your choices[This talk has been rescheduled as shown above.] Dr. Jo Wainer will talk about the history of the fight to decriminalise abortion.

Dr. Wainer and her husband, Dr. Bertram Wainer, were the leaders of the movement, and founders of the Fertility Clinic in Wellington Parade.  East Melbourne has long been a place where someone in need could find an abortionist, and abortion and the fight to legalise it are now very much part of the suburb's history.

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Dr. Cairns and Cairns Memorial Church

Presenter(s): 
Lawrence Moore
Start: 
Wednesday 17 Jun 2009 - 8:00pm
Location: 
Clarendon Terrace, 210 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Members free; non-members $5.00

Lawrence Moore told us about the life and times of Rev. Dr. Adam Cairns and the history of the church named in his memory.  Lawrence was organist and member of the congregation before the church was destroyed by fire and is an authority on Presbyterian church history.

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Melba

Presenter(s): 
Dr. Ann Blainey
Start: 
Wednesday 15 Apr 2009 - 8:00pm
Location: 
Clarendon Terrace, 210 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Members free; non-members $5.00

Dr. Ann Blainey, author of I am Melba, spoke about the life of the opera singer.  Dame Nellie Melba's main connection with East Melbourne is as a school girl at Presbyterian Ladies College, which was built by her father, David Mitchell.

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Bishopscourt tour

Presenter(s): 
Bishop James Grant
Helen Page
Start: 
Wednesday 18 Feb 2009 - 4:00pm
Location: 
Bishopscourt, 120 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Members free; non-members $5.00

094 Kookaburra November 2006094 Kookaburra November 2006An informal tour of Bishopscourt generously hosted by Archbishop Philip and Mrs. Joy Freier and guided by Bishop James Grant and Helen Page.

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Life at Bishopscourt

Presenter(s): 
Rev. Clemence Taplin
Start: 
Wednesday 15 Oct 2008 - 8:00pm
Location: 
Clarendon Terrace, 210 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Members free; non-members $5.00

BishopscourtBishopscourtFollowing our AGM, Rev. Clemence Taplin, daughter of Frank Woods, Archbishop of Melbourne 1957–1977, and Primate of the Anglican Church of Australia 1970–77, will talk of her memories of growing up at Bishopscourt.

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The Origins of Australian Rules Football

Presenter(s): 
Prof. Geoffrey Blainey
Start: 
Wednesday 20 Aug 2008 - 8:00pm
Location: 
Clarendon Terrace, 210 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Members free; non-members $5.00

First football match 1858First football match 1858150 years ago the first game of football was played in Yarra Park between teams from Scotch College and Melbourne Grammar.  Professor Blainey will examine the origins of our local game.

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Margaret McLean: the first signatory on the 1891 Petition for Women's Suffrage

Presenter(s): 
Dr. Liz Rushen
Start: 
Wednesday 18 Jun 2008 - 8:00pm
Location: 
Clarendon Terrace, 210 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Members free; non-members $5.00

Margaret McLean circa 1902Margaret 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

Presenter(s): 
Stephanie Alexander
Start: 
Wednesday 16 Apr 2008 - 8:00pm
Location: 
Clarendon Terrace, 210 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Members free; non-members $5.00

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

Start: 
Wednesday 20 Feb 2008 - 11:00am
Location: 
24 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, then 398 Albert Street, East Melbourne
Entry fee: 
Free for members; guests $5.00

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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