Coming Events
Glenferrie Heritage Trail Walk
SUNDAY 27 April 2025, 11am Our guide, Elizabeth Love will take us for a Sunday morning stroll highlighting the history of the Glenferrie precinct in the heart of Hawthorn. This walk traces the amazing transformation of the area from the wooded rural retreat of the...
Brilliant Brass – the Hawthorn City Band Talk
SUNDAY 18th May 2025 Formed over 135 years ago, the award-winning Hawthorn City Band has a fascinating history which Lindsay Paterson will share; and with the exciting addition of a short performance from the Auburn Brass. Visitors are welcome to come to the Hawthorn...
Past Events
Join us at the Glenferrie Road Festival
SUNDAY 2nd March 11am to 5pm We are excited to be back on Glenferrie Road for this annual local community event. Of-course there will be live music and entertainment but the highlight will be a visit to the Hawthorn Historical Society. An opportunity to chat...
Annual General Meeting with Guest Speaker Dr. Sally Warmington
The Hawthorn Historical Society will conduct it's Annual General Meeting followed by Dr. Sally Warmington's talk: A Mansion by the Creek For almost seventy years, a grand Scotch Baronial mansion called Hawthorn Glen stood on a large estate on the Glenferrie Hill,...
The Pavilion in the Park
SUNDAY 18 August 2pm Peter Dyring, HHS member, long-term resident of Denham Street and member of the Hawthorn Bowling Club, will share with us stories of the early years of this historic institution which was founded over 140 years ago. Meet: 25 Inglesby Road,...
1880s Boom and Bust
SUNDAY 21 July 2pm The Melbourne land boom of the late 1880s was one of the greatest speculative booms in history followed by a ferocious financial bust which shaped the future of Melbourne for many decades. Dr Peter Yule uses the fortunes of the Baillieu family to...
Old Hawthorn, Fresh Eyes
- an exhibition at the Hawthorn Arts Centre 20th March to 4th May 2024 'Old Hawthorn, Fresh Eyes' unpacks complex narratives and hidden stories that enrich our society. Featuring photographs, ephemera, original maps and postcards, and firsthand...
A Scandal in The Family
SUNDAY 19 May 2024 2pm Pam Carter, Hawthorn Historical Society member, local and family historian, will share her family history discoveries, unpacking some unwelcome surprises. She will reflect on the complexity of uncovering difficult things a family has kept...
A Day at the Movies
SUNDAY 21 April 2024 2pm Don't miss the chance to view rare and riveting film from Melbourne's days of old. Chris Long is in high demand for his historical movie footage, so we are pleased to have secured him to come and share it with us. So, mark the following date...
Auburn Heritage Walk
SATURDAY 20 MAY 2023, 1pm Our guide, Biruta Don will take us for a delightful stroll around Auburn showing the range of heritage buildings from fine Victorian, Federation and interwar dwellings, commercial and public buildings, and from industrial beginnings to...
The Printer and the Painter
The story of Australia's official portrait of Queen Elizabeth II Saturday 22 July 20232.00pm Guest Speaker: Elizabeth Yewers This story connects two Boroondara residents: printer James Beveridge and artist William Dargie. In 1954, Beveridge, a...