Past Events

2018 Meeting Dates

Tuesday February 27 2018 8pm Camberwell Green presentation Tuesday March 27 2018 8pm  Dr Ross McMullin: Pompey Elliott at war: in his own words Tuesday April 10 2018 8pm John Maidment: Lost Pipe Organs of Australia Tuesday May 15 2018 8pm Dr Brenda Niall: Can you hear...

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John Rickard

28 November 2017 8pm       Australia: A Cultural History - a talk based on his new book Camberwell Library Meeting Room

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Dr Joely Taylor

24 October 2017 8pm           Oral Histories and how to create them Camberwell Library Meeting Room Backtracks: Recollections of Remarkable Australians

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Gillian Yung

25 July 2017 8pm. Daisy Bates and Rose de Freycinet – two remarkable women The Meeting Room, Camberwell Library, 340 Camberwell Road, Camberwell.  

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Marian Quartly and Judith Smart

Judith Smart and Marian Quartly – Talk based on their book Respectable Radicals: a history of the National Council of Women  of Australia, 1896-2006. Camberwell Library Meeting Room 27 June 2017 8pm  

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Chris Long

Chris Long presented historic films from early Melbourne Tuesday 23 May 2017 8pm Copeland Meeting Room, Ashburton Library, High Street Ashburton  

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Duldig Museum

Duldig Studio, museum and sculpture garden Saturday 29 April 2017 2pm Included a talk by Eva de Jong-Duldig about her parents Karl and Slawa Duldig. Duldig Studio, museum and sculpture garden 92 Burke Road, East...

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The Hon. Ted Baillieu

The Hon. Ted Baillieu Thursday 20 April 2017 8pm Ted Baillieu talked about Sir John Monash Hawthorn Community Precinct, 584 Glenferrie Road, Hawthorn - Thursday 20 April.

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Nick Richardson

Nick Richardson 28 March 2017 8pm Nick Richardson The Game of their lives As the Great War raged in 1916, two teams of Australian soldiers played an Australian Rules football match in London. It was the first time the world had seen Australia’s national game. But this...

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