Mud and Blood – WWI play by Meg McNena directed by Alice Bishop – Special Performance
Mud and Blood, Meg McNena's compelling 80-minute, six-actor play, is about distinguished Australian general, Harold 'Pompey' Elliott, who led the Essendon Rifles and took most of them to WWI. The […]
Story Telling and Victorian Collections
Victorian Collections is a free, online cataloguing system especially created for small museums in Victoria. This workshop offers a full day of training, beginning with basic collection management. By the […]
The war on our doorstep Australians in New Guinea 1943-45
Australian success in Papua between July 1942 and January 1943 checked the Japanese southward advance but the victories at Kokoda, Milne Bay and the Beachheads did not remove the Japanese […]
World War One: A history in 100 stories
Join us for the launch of a significant social history book, and a lecture by Professor Jay Winter. This Remembrance Day, World War One: A history in 100 stories, written […]
Invasion: the Gallipoli campaign through Turkish eyes – Book Launch
Book launch - Invasion: the Gallipoli campaign through Turkish eyesDr John Basarin OAM and Mrs Hatice Basarin Authors Wednesday 11 November 6pm for 6.20pm - 7.30pm Dyason House
The war on our doorstep Australians in New Guinea 1943-45
Australian success in Papua between July 1942 and January 1943 checked the Japanese southward advance but the victories at Kokoda, Milne Bay and the Beachheads did not remove the Japanese […]
The Art of Survival: Drawings by Fred Ransome Smith, POW
Fred Ransome Smith, imprisoned by the Japanese during the Second World War, used art to document his captivity. Decades later he returned to this art to release and share wartime […]