Annual History Walk – bookings now closed
Johnston Street CollingwoodThe annual history walk will look at the area in Collingwood bounded by Johnston, Smith, Otter and Wellington Streets, with a special focus on the former Collingwood Technical School, once the site of the Collingwood municipal chambers and courthouse. We will be able to look inside the old school building, courtesy of the current tenants. […]
End of year meeting and Christmas breakup
Johnston Street CollingwoodWorking meeting
To be advised VIC, AustraliaWorking Meeting
To be advised VIC, AustraliaOur April meeting will be held on 18 April at 7:30 (not 11 April as would usually be scheduled).
Working meeting
Fitzroy Library Meeting Room 2 Moor St Fitzroy VIC, AustraliaAnnual General Meeting
Leinster Arms Gold Street, Collingwood, Victoria, AustraliaOur AGM will be held at the delightful Leinster Arms. Guest speaker is Jill Giese, author of The Maddest Place on Earth. Jill, a clinical psychologist, has researched the extraordinary rate of insanity in Victoria in the nineteenth century. Her book examines the approach to treating mental illness at the time, and through real case […]
Meeting
Fitzroy Library Meeting Room 2 Moor St Fitzroy VIC, AustraliaAnnual History Walk
This year's Walk looks at Queens Parade in Clifton Hill. Meet at the corner of Smith Street and Queens Parade at 2 pm. We will finish at the Terminus Hotel in North Fitzroy around 4 pm. Stay on for refreshments and chat if you wish. The Walk is free for CHS members, $10 for non-members.
Working meeting
Fitzroy Library Meeting Room 2 Moor St Fitzroy VIC, AustraliaAnnual General Meeting and Talk: Beware the Spanish Lady
Yorkshire Stingo Hotel Hoddle St Abbotsford Hoddle Street, Abbotsford, AustraliaOur AGM held on Thursday 5 September at the Yorkshire Stingo Hotel, 48 Hoddle Street, Abbotsford. AGM business at 7:45 and the guest speaker will begin talking around 8 pm. The topic is Beware the Spanish Lady: the 1919 influenza pandemic. The speaker is Mary Sheehan, a member of the Living Histories professional historians team. […]