Trove for Beginners
Williamstown Library 104 Ferguson Street, Williamstown, Victoria, AustraliaTrove is a National Library of Australia website which provides access to historic newspapers, photographs, and much more. Come along to this session to learn what’s available on Trove, and some tips and tricks to find what you’re looking for. Recommended for beginners. Date: February 10 Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Website:https://libraries.hobsonsbay.vic.gov.au/categories/local-family-history/2784-trove-for-beginners
Gulf War 30th Anniversary – Museum At Home Webinar
OnlineIn this Museum At Home webinar 30 years on from the Gulf War, we explore Australia's contribution and involvement in Operation Desert Storm. About this Event 17 January 2021 marks 30 years since the start of Operation Desert Storm, the military response by a US-led coalition of 35 nations against Iraq’s illegal occupation of neighbouring […]
Women Work for Victory in World War II – Exhibition
Old Treasury Building 20 Spring St, East Melbourne, AustraliaWomen 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 […]
‘The Dunera Boys – a Family Story’ – Speaker: Phil Dressing
OnlineZoom Webinar: Wednesday 17 February 2021 @ 7:00pm to 8:00pm (Australian Eastern Standard Time) During this presentation Phil Dressing will tell a very personal family story of the “Dunera Boys”. His father and his two brothers were brought up in a German orientated orphanage in London. They were interned in the UK in the mid-forties […]
Book Fair
The Royal Historical Society of Victoria 239 A’Beckett Street, Melbourne, AustraliaEvery 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 – WW2 Play about Australian & Greek friendship
Renaissance Theatre 826 High St, East Kew, Victoria, AustraliaBlood 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 – WW2 Play about Australian & Greek friendship
Renaissance Theatre 826 High St, East Kew, Victoria, AustraliaBlood 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 […]
The Coming War for the South China Sea – LTCOL Alistair Pope,(ret’d) psc, CM
ANZAC House 4, Collins St, MelbourneRoyal 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 International Conference on World War II – Free online
OnlineThe 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 International Conference on World War II – Day 2 – Free online
OnlineThe 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 […]
Vera Deakin in War and Peace With Carole Woods
Royal Historical Society of Victoria 239 A'beckett St, Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaThe 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 […]
‘Secret & Special – Z Special Unit in WWII’ Speaker: Will Davies
OnlineZoom 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 […]