by Karen Cummings | 19 May, 2025
To mark of the 50th anniversary of Vietnamese migrants arriving in Australia, Yarra has commemorated 13 notable sites in Yarra’s Vietnamese heart, Victoria Street. The first generation of Vietnamese refugees began arriving in Australia in the mid-1970s as a result of...
by oztwowheel | 17 Mar, 2025
World War 1 in Collingwood Page & Databases NOW LIVE and can be found at https://collingwoodhs.org.au/resources/world-war-i-in-collingwood-2/
by Karen Cummings | 8 Mar, 2025
Originally known as Eight Hour Day, this celebrates the achievement in 1856 of a reduction in working hours to eight hours per day (six days per week) for certain sections of the building trades. The proposal was initiated by the Collingwood branch of the Operative...
by Karen Cummings | 2 Mar, 2025
It was International Women’s Day in 2023 that inspired us to prepare a new page on our website, dedicated to Collingwood women. During the course of 2023 we added several new sections to the page, as well as incorporating an edited version of the names of...
by Karen Cummings | 26 Feb, 2025
Inspired by the work of Australian-Vietnamese poet author Nam Le and his ‘Collingwood’ song cycle poem about Collingwood’s history, we plan to add a fresh page to our website with the theme of Collingwood Literature and Culture. Members have already started compiling...
