Military History & Heritage Victoria
Military history and heritage is an important part of Australia’s national story. MHHV Inc. aims to encourage interest in Australian and especially Victorian military history and heritage in all of its forms; to develop and engage in activities related to its research, preservation, promotion, education and commemoration. MHHV also aims to promote the interests of its member organisations in the community at large and to promote communication and cooperation within the military history and heritage community.
What’s Coming Up
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02Nov, 2021
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AUKUS – So What?: Reconciling Australia’s Geography with its History, its Fear of Abandonment and Fear of Entrapment
November 2 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
In light of the recent AUKUS pact between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, Professor John Blaxland from the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at ANU will explore the unreconciled dialectic in Australian consciousness between our geography, history and a lingering fear of entrapment.
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10Nov, 2021
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‘Leadership in Crisis: Blamey at War.’ – Speaker: Brent Taylor
November 10 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Wednesday 10 November 2021 7:00PM-8:00PM (Australian Eastern Standard Time)
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11Nov, 2021
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Soldier settlement schemes seminar via zoom
November 11 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
A joint presentation with the Genealogical Society of Victoria and the RHSV.
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03Dec, 2021
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The Bloody Beachheads: The Battles of Gona, Buna and Sanananda Sydney, One Day Conference
Great Southern Hotel, 717 George StDecember 3 @ 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
As the battle for Guadalcanal dragged on the Japanese advance on the Kokoda Track culminated and they were ordered to ‘advance to the rear’.
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Call for Papers – Hard Fought: Australia in the Mediterranean Theatre 1940-1945
Military History & Heritage Victoria Inc. 4th Biennial Two-Day Conference – Hard Fought: Australia in the Mediterranean Theatre 1940-1945 9-10 April 2022, Waverley RSL, Melbourne.
The Royal United Services Institute of Victoria
For anybody in Victoria who is interested in military history (and readers of this website probably fall into that category) or in strategic and defence matters more generally, there is a jewel of a resource available to them at the Royal United Service Institute of Victoria.
Niche Wars Australia in Afghanistan and Iraq, 2001–2014 Edited by: John Blaxland, Marcus Fielding, Thea Gellerfy
Australia invoked the ANZUS Alliance following the Al Qaeda attacks in the United States on 11 September 2001.
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Twenty years in Afghanistan – What did Australia achieve there, and what did we learn?
Events after 11 September 2001 saw the Middle East return to centre stage for Australia’s armed forces after repeated and sporadic commitments in northern Africa and the Middle East.
Call for Papers – Hard Fought: Australia in the Mediterranean Theatre 1940-1945
Military History & Heritage Victoria Inc. 4th Biennial Two-Day Conference – Hard Fought: Australia in the Mediterranean Theatre 1940-1945 9-10 April 2022, Waverley RSL, Melbourne.
Summary – ‘Semut: Secret Australian Operation in WWII Borneo.’ presented by Prof Christine Helliwell
Prof Helliwell opened her excellent presentation to an audience of 39 explaining about the secret Allied operations to take back Sarawak from the occupying Japanese in 1945.
