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-profit organisation that celebrates the social, civic and entrepreneurial achievements of all Australian women and their role in shaping our nation. The lives and experiences of women have traditionally been under-represented in historical narratives, museum collections and the public sphere.  

As part of the Australian Heritage Festival, Dr Liz Rushen will give the inaugural lecture at the Museum on ‘Clarendon Terrace and HER first neighbours’ in which she will talk on some of East Melbourne’s pioneering women.  This fits very neatly with our own on-going project on our local notable women. Liz is well known to most of us as co-founder of EMHS, she is a professional historian with a special interest in women’s history and has written many books on the subject.  

EMHS members are invited to attend and will not only have the chance to hear Liz speak but also to see the new incarnation of one of our oldest and finest buildings.

Thursday 9 May at 6.00 pm at Clarendon Terrace, 210 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne. Admittance is by gold coin donation. Bookings online at https://www.trybooking.com/460931