Calendar of Events

Every year the RHSV hosts a fabulous second-hand history book fair where we sell history books of every imaginable genre. Victorian and Australian history dominate but you’ll find biographies and memoirs, military history, art history, natural history, classics, children’s books, political and social history, literary history etc There wasn’t a book fair in 2020 so […]

Blood and Bone is a new play about friendship between Australians and Greeks that outlasted WW2 battles. Written by Meg McNena and directed by Demetra Giannakopoulos, it portrays the courage and sacrifice of Anzac, Greek and Cretan combatants and civilians, the women's struggles, and post-war Greek migration to Australia. Inspired by interviews with 2/7th veterans […]

Blood and Bone is a new play about friendship between Australians and Greeks that outlasted WW2 battles. Written by Meg McNena and directed by Demetra Giannakopoulos, it portrays the courage and sacrifice of Anzac, Greek and Cretan combatants and civilians, the women's struggles, and post-war Greek migration to Australia. Inspired by interviews with 2/7th veterans […]

Royal United Services Institute of Victoria - Lunchtime Address - Thursday 25th February 2019 at 1230 - ANZAC House , 4 Collins St, Melbourne. LTCOL Alistair Pope,(ret’d) psc, CM TOPIC: The Coming War for the South China Sea Coffee and Tea from 1130 am., Entrance fee: $10 Please note that the Annual General Meeting of […]

The National WWII Museum in New Orleans has hosted The International Conference on World War II since 2006—bringing together the best and brightest scholars, authors, historians, and witnesses to history from around the globe to discuss key battles, personalities, strategies, issues, and controversies of the war that changed the world. In addition to the many […]

The National WWII Museum in New Orleans has hosted The International Conference on World War II since 2006—bringing together the best and brightest scholars, authors, historians, and witnesses to history from around the globe to discuss key battles, personalities, strategies, issues, and controversies of the war that changed the world. In addition to the many […]

The RHSV’s major lecture during Women’s History Month (March). The lecture will start at 6pm and we will be serving drinks prior to that from 5:30pm. The daughter of Prime Minister Alfred Deakin, Vera Deakin studied music in the Habsburg Empire on the eve of the Great War. Driven by British imperial fervour on her […]

Zoom Webinar: Wednesday 31 March 2021 @ 7:00pm to 8:00pm (Australian Eastern Standard Time)   Secret and Special covers the untold story of Z Special Unit and Operations, the precursor to the elite SAS, and the extraordinary feats they undertook in the Pacific during the Second World War. The Z Special Unit was established as […]

Royal United Services Institute of Victoria Lunchtime Address. Greg Barton is Professor of Global Islamic Politics at the Alfred Deakin Institute. Greg has been active for the past thirty years in inter-faith dialogue initiatives and has a deep commitment to building understanding of Islam and Muslim society. The central axis of his research interests is […]

The Battle of Crete & Greece Commemorative Council of Victoria, on behalf of the Cretan Brotherhood of Melbourne and Pancretan Association of Melbourne, are pleased to invite you to the following commemorative events on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Crete. Sunday 18th April 2021 11:30am Official Parade and Wreath Laying […]

Monday 19th April 2021 6:30pm. Lecture by His Eminence Archbishop Makarios, titled “The Role of the Church during the Battle of Crete in 1941 to 1945”, to be held at the Church of the Holy Monastery Axion Estin, 7 Hartington St, Northcote. The events will also be attended by the Consul General for Greece in […]

Women Work for Victory in World War II tells the story of women on the home front during the Second World War. It is an online exhibition for now, while the Old Treasury Building is closed for the COVID 19 pandemic. But the exhibition is in place in the galleries and will be available just […]