Activities
John James Clark - Life and Architecture
John James Clark (1838-1915) designed many famous public buildings in Australia including, in Melbourne, the Treasury Building and Government House. He lived at 104 Gipps Street from 1869-1871. Our speaker, Dr. Andrew Dodd, completed his PhD thesis on J.J. Clark at Melbourne University working with Prof. Miles Lewis and is now a senior lecturer in Journalism at Swinburne University.
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Tom Wills
Tom Wills statue in Yarra ParkTom Wills, a star cricketer, is credited with creating the game of Australian Rules Football to keep members of the cricket team fit over the winter months. But there was much more to his life than just sport. Greg de Moore will tell us his extraordinary story.
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Woman's Christian Temperance Union - Exposing Melbourne's Shameful Secrets
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 a freelance historian whose PhD was on the Australian Woman's Christian Temperance Union in the Nineteenth Century.
It is known that the Woman's Christian Temperance Union was instrumental in giving women the vote. What is less known is its protest against the sexual exploitation and abuse of women and children.
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Annual General Meeting
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.
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Roy Morgan - Founder of Roy Morgan Research
1942 Roy Morgan Gallup PollOn 5 July 1942 the Roy Morgan "Gallup Poll" reported that "the employment of women conductors on trams and buses is strongly approved throughout Australia." Recent polling finds that Australians are still of the same mind.
Roy Morgan founded his market research company in 1941 only 6 years after George Gallup founded the Gallup Poll. Those were the pioneering days in the commercial application of statistics and psychology in opinion polling and market research. Gary Morgan is going to give us the inside story on his father and tell us why those surveys won't stop, even though we made up our minds 68 years ago.
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Heritage Conservation
Fitzroy Town Hall - 1874Conserving the Heritage of East Melbourne is the one of the principal aims of our Society. Whether it is the renovation of our own home or a public building, the depredations of time create many challenges for the heritage architect many of which can't be anticipated.
John Briggs is an architect and a conservation advisor to the City of Melbourne. He has been involved in many major projects including in East Melbourne. Using his recent experience in restoring the Fitzroy Town Hall John will share with us some of the challenges and solutions.
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US Military Forces at the MCG
The Melbourne Cricket Club Library has recently received some new material, including photos, dating to the Second World War when US military forces were based at the MCG. Alf Batchelder will
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Tour of Abbotsford Brewery
Breweries once dotted many of Melbourne's inner suburbs including East Melbourne. Our brewery has now been converted to apartments but a visit to the one in Abbotsford will give us a glimpse of what used to happen in Victoria Parade. The tour will end with tastings.
Numbers very strictly limited!
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Yarra - A Diverting History of Melbourne's Murky River
1845 Yarra River PuntKristin Otto's entertaining history of the Yarra River begins with the Kulin nation and its stories of creation and follows through to the building boom of the twentieth century. Through the millennia, the Yarra has been home, the source of life and the site of corroborees, entertainments, intrigues and endeavours of every description.
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Annual General Meeting
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.
The AGM will be followed immediately by a History of the Yarra River presented by Kristin Otto.
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