Activities

Start Friday 1 Apr 2016 - 1:00pm Finish Friday, 29 April 2016 - 6:00pm Location East Melbourne Libary, 122 George Street, East Melbourne Entry fee Free After the success of this exhibition last year we will re-hang it in April. The East Melbourne Historical Society again pays tri...

Join us as Dr Barry Jones AC revisits for the 21st century his best-selling and widely influential book on technology and the future of work.

This will be our 25th Annual General Meeting. Following the AGM, and to mark the occasion, Dr Liz Rushen AM, as one of the founders of the Society, will take us back to its beginnings and tell us the story of how it all began. Then Professor Richard Broome AM will talk to us on t...

Dr Louise Voll Box was appointed as CEO of The Johnston Collection in July 2023. The previous CEO, Louis Le Vaillant, led East Melbourne's own museum of fine and decorative arts for nearly fifteen years, showcasing its treasures to locals and visitors alike. Now it is Dr Voll Box...

Nina Stanton was director and curator of local house museum, The Johnston Collection 2000-2008. When she died in 2009 she left behind an incomplete memoir with a request to writer and close friend, Mary Ryllis Clark, to complete the work. It was a complicated project. Nina had wr...

Dr. Anna Blainey Warner will tell us how women in the 1890s alerted the public to the sexual assault and prostitution of young girls and of the controversy that followed. Anna is an East Melbourne resident and freelance historian whose PhD was on the Australian Woman's Christian...

In 2022 the East Melbourne Library was given a collection of old glass plate negatives. The donor did not have any information about the photos. They simply looked old and interesting. Fiona Campbell, our local history librarian, and a band of loyal volunteers have spent every We...

Presenter(s) Dr. Miles Lewis Start Wednesday 17 Oct 2007 - 8:00pm Finish Wednesday, 17 October 2007 - 10:00pm Location Clarendon Terrace, 210 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne Entry fee Free for members; guests $5.00

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AGM followed by 'Geoffrey Blainey's East Melbourne'

In his inimitable way Geoffrey Blainey will present us with a collage of tales from East Melbourne's past.

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AGM followed by Bruce Trethowan- Cliveden Mansion

Notice of Annual General Meeting, nomination form and proxy form are attached to this newsletter. All financial members of the EMHS are eligible to nominate for the committee.

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AGM followed by East Melbourne Less Glorious

Following our AGM architect, Geoffrey Borrack, who has lived and worked in East Melbourne since the early 1960s, will tell us of his memories of the suburb before gentrification took hold. Geoffrey has been instrumental in saving some of our most notable houses from demolition an...

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AGM to be followed by Archbishop Philip Freier: 5:00pm Wednesday 21 October 2020

This is a notice to members of the EMHS Annual General Meeting to be held via Zoom at 5:00pm on Wednesday 21 October 2020. Archbishop Philip Freier will talk to us after the AGM. The Zoom link will be provided in advance by email to financial members.

Ian Shears, Manager, Urban Landscapes, City of Melbourne leads the City’s climate change adaptation program for urban landscapes. Over the past three years, Ian and his award winning, multi-disciplinary team have delivered a $30 million climate adaptation program focused on strat...

Enjoy tea and company in the glorious gardens of East Melbourne’s stateliest home. Helen Botham, an expert on the garden and its history, will conduct a tour at 4.15 p.m.

To be followed immediately by Dr. Anna Blainey speaking on the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and its campaign against exploitation of woman and children in the late 1800s.

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.

Robin Grow will talk about Art Deco architecture in East Melbourne. He is president of the Art Deco & Modernism Society of Australia (ADMSA) and is passionate about the preservation of Inter-war buildings. He has a special interest in researching and documenting the architecture...

Following the success of our tour to the NGV in St Kilda Road last year when local resident, Krystyna Campbell-Pretty, arranged a tour of several portraits she had donated, this years’ tour demonstrates the long-overlooked talent of several Australian women artists, focussing onc...

Presenter(s) Meyer Eidelson Start Wednesday 21 Feb 2018 - 2:00pm Finish Wednesday, 21 February 2018 - 4:00pm Location East Melbourne Library, 122 George Street, East Melbourne Entry fee Members free; non-members $5.00 Meyer Eidelson will take us on a Virtual Tour of early Melbour...