Jan 26, 2022
Sunday 21st August, 2022 2.00pm Guest Speaker: Robin Grow Robin Grow is President of the Art Deco and Modernism Society of Australia and is the author of several books on the topic, including a history of the Land Titles office (2013), and MELMO – Modernist...
Jan 26, 2022
Sunday 23rd October, 2022 2.00pm Guest Speaker: Dr Madonna Grehan Victoria’s 1852 Bill for compulsory civil registration of births, deaths and marriages passed without fanfare. By contrast, the scheme devised in 1853 to implement this...
Aug 7, 2021
SUNDAY 19th SEPT 2PM.Hawthorn Community Precinct584 Glenferrie RoadHawthorn, 3122 Join us for an exciting musical afternoon featuring live and recorded musical performances as well as a wide range of talks from our members on the rich history of the music scene in...
May 6, 2021
SUNDAY 16th MAY 2 PM.Hawthorn Community Precinct584 Glenferrie RoadHawthorn, 3122 Local historian and Australian history enthusiast Matthew Etty-Leal will be holding a talk on the fascinating and multi-talented George Coppin, remembered as the ‘father of...
Apr 25, 2021
SUNDAY 18th JULY 2 pm.Hawthorn Community Precinct584 Glenferrie RoadHawthorn, 3122 Robert Larkins, author of an insightful new book entitled ‘The Personal History of William Buckley, Murrangurk among the first people’ will be holding a talk on the...
Apr 9, 2021
Thomas Johnson: Thorny Rose Grower of Hawthorn. The writer of the first book published on rose-growing in Victoria had an extensive rosenursery in Hawthorn. A vocal member of his community, and a thorn in the side of all thosein authority in early Boroondara, Thomas...
