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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20210210T220000
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SUMMARY:Trove for Beginners
DESCRIPTION:Trove is a National Library of Australia website which provides access to historic newspapers\, photographs\, and much more. Come along to this session to learn what’s available on Trove\, and some tips and tricks to find what you’re looking for. \nRecommended for beginners. \nDate: February 10 \nTime: 11:00 am – 12:00 pm \nWebsite:https://libraries.hobsonsbay.vic.gov.au/categories/local-family-history/2784-trove-for-beginners \n 
URL:https://www.mhhv.org.au/event/trove-for-beginners/
LOCATION:Williamstown Library\, 104 Ferguson Street\, Williamstown\, Victoria\, 3016\, Australia
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20210213T020000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20210213T030000
DTSTAMP:20260922T160947
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SUMMARY:Gulf War 30th Anniversary - Museum At Home Webinar
DESCRIPTION:In this Museum At Home webinar 30 years on from the Gulf War\, we explore Australia’s contribution and involvement in Operation Desert Storm. \n\nAbout this Event\n17 January 2021 marks 30 years since the start of Operation Desert Storm\, the military response by a US-led coalition of 35 nations against Iraq’s illegal occupation of neighbouring Kuwait in August 1990. More than 1\,800 Australian Defence Force personnel were deployed to the Persian Gulf from August 1990 to September 1991. On 24 February 1991\, coalition ground forces moved from Saudi Arabia against Iraqi positions\, destroying what was left of Iraq’s ability to resist. Although Australian forces never officially engaged in open combat with hostile forces they primarily provided naval support with a unit of photo interpreters on the ground in Saudi Arabia. \nIn this webinar\, historian Dr Aaron Pegram explains Australia’s involvement in the Gulf War and how the Australian War Memorial is collecting stories and items to display in its museum gallery spaces in the future. \nThis is an interactive webinar\, where viewers have the opportunity to send in questions online during the event for our speakers to answer. \nPanelist: \nDr Aaron Pegram is a senior historian at the Australian War Memorial with 15 years’ experience in museums and exhibition development. A member of the Military History Section\, he is currently attached to the Memorial’s Gallery Development team\, working on a new permanent display on Australia’s involvement in the Gulf War
URL:https://www.mhhv.org.au/event/gulf-war-30th-anniversary-museum-at-home-webinar/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20210215T210000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20210216T030000
DTSTAMP:20260922T160947
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SUMMARY:Women Work for Victory in World War II - Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Women Work for Victory in World War II tells the story of women on the home front during the Second World War. \n \nIt is an online exhibition for now\, while the Old Treasury Building is closed for the COVID 19 pandemic. But the exhibition is in place in the galleries and will be available just as soon as we can open once again. \nWomen Work for Victory is an important reminder of the contribution played by women across Australian society in the cause of an Allied victory. Many thousands of women joined the workforce during world War II\, many working in jobs previously reserved for men. From the fields to the factories\, the armed services to the home\, women produced the food\, clothing and munitions that supplied both the Allied troops in the Pacific region and the civilian population. \nMany of these jobs were difficult and dangerous\, but thousands of women responded to the call. It is important to remember their stories. \nWhile the critical work of women on the home front during World War II went a long way towards shifting attitudes towards women in the workforce\, the exhibition also lays clear the limitations to such changes. \nWomen Work for Victory reveals that most women at this time were paid far less than men\, even where the work they performed was identical. Equal pay was a live issue at the time\, but very few women ever achieved it. As the men returned from the war\, women had to relinquish many of these jobs. It was ‘thanks girls and goodbye!’
URL:https://www.mhhv.org.au/event/women-work-for-victory-in-world-war-ii-exhibition-2/
LOCATION:Old Treasury Building\, 20 Spring St\, East Melbourne\, Australia
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20210218T060000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20210218T070000
DTSTAMP:20260922T160947
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SUMMARY:‘The Dunera Boys – a Family Story’ - Speaker: Phil Dressing
DESCRIPTION:Zoom Webinar: Wednesday 17 February 2021 @ 7:00pm to 8:00pm (Australian Eastern Standard Time) \n \nDuring this presentation Phil Dressing will tell a very personal family story of the “Dunera Boys”. \nHis father and his two brothers were brought up in a German orientated orphanage in London. They were interned in the UK in the mid-forties by the Government fearing a fifth front on home shores. Informed they were being banished to Canada and they were put aboard the Aranadora Star\, a converted Blue Star Passenger Liner. \nThe ship\, unescorted\, was torpedoed and sunk by U47 with tremendous loss of life. The vessel was carrying far more passengers than life saving capacity. All three brothers survived and a very short time later found themselves on the HMT Dunera bound for Australia. \n2\,542 internees left Liverpool on the ‘hell’ ship bound for Australia. The Dunera was dangerously overcrowded and the internees were kept in quarters below deck\, with limited access to fresh air or daylight. Conditions were unhygienic\, with the putrid stench of vomit\, urine and unwashed bodies. The internees suffered from poor rations\, inadequate medical care and regular beatings from the British guards. Despite the hardships on board and in Australia\, 900 elected to stay in the country. \nUpon arrival\, they were interned at Tatura\, Victoria. Towards the end of the war with Germany\, the boys were offered to be returned to the UK or join the Australian Army. They chose the latter and served in the northern islands fighting the Japanese. \nAll three survived that experience\, returned to Victoria\, married\, raised families and went on to become successful businessmen. The Dressing brothers did not tell their siblings their life story. In Phil’s father’s case\, not until his wife\, Jean\, passed away some thirty years ago. When he was asked why he kept the story to himself\, his father replied that he was afraid his sons would think less of him being of German origin during the war. \nThis is their story. \n \n\n\n \nAbout the presenter \nPhil Dressing is General Manager of the National Vietnam Veterans Museum\, a position he has held since November 2016. Not a Vietnam Vet himself\, he was in the last National Service ballot in September 1972 at the age of nineteen years. His date was not drawn but Gough Whitlam\, elected to lead our Country in December 1972\, on a platform of anti-war\, anti-conscription\, immediately dismantled National Service. It was unlikely Phil would have served even had his number been drawn. He was provided a temporary exemption at the time. \nHe was born and bred in West St. Kilda\, which explains his love of the St. Kilda Football Club\, and was schooled at Middle Park State School and Caulfield Grammar. His early career was Industrial Risk Management/Occupational Health and Safety\, becoming Pilkington (industrial\, domestic and automotive glass manufacturers) Australasia’s Risk and Insurance Manager. After a move to Phillip Island he managed the local golf club for eight years\, worked in real estate for two years and then worked for the Phillip Island Adventure Resort for ten years. He has been married to Jan for over forty years. They have two sons and four grandchildren. Despite his ample girth he plays golf and pedals around Phillip Island on a regular basis. \nBook your ticket here
URL:https://www.mhhv.org.au/event/the-dunera-boys-a-family-story-speaker-phil-dressing/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20210219T200000
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SUMMARY:Book Fair
DESCRIPTION:Every year the RHSV hosts a fabulous second-hand history book fair where we sell history books of every imaginable genre. \n \nVictorian and Australian history dominate but you’ll find biographies and memoirs\, military history\, art history\, natural history\, classics\, children’s books\, political and social history\, literary history etc \nThere wasn’t a book fair in 2020 so the Drill Hall is bursting at the seams with accumulated donations of books from members and friends: professional and professorial libraries being downsized\, private\, public and educational libraries deaccessioning and old books making way for new. Books are priced to go – we don’t want any books left behind! A COVID silver-lining has to be that everyone Marie-Kondo’ed their libraries in 2020 and we’ve benefited. \nAt the 2021 Book Fair we are honoured to offer the Les Blake Collection for sale. Leslie Bamford James Blake\, O.B.E.\, B.A. Melb.\, M.Ed. Melb.\, F.A.C.E.\, F.R.S.H.V.\, F.I.B.A. was born at Bendigo (Vic.) on 5 March 1913 and died 4 June 1987 at Karingal. A long-time member of the Victorian Education Department\, during which he was an Inspector of Schools (1958-1972)\, and official historian of the Department (1966-1974)\, after which he became Victoria’s State Historian. He made major contributions to the Australian Dictionary of Biography and served in the Australian Army Signal Corps of the A.I.F. during WWII. He was President of the R.H.S.V. from 1966-1971 and Foundation President of the Western Victorian Association of historical Societies (1963-1964). \nThe Book Fair is open to the public however it kicks off with a Members-only night on Thursday 18th Feb from 5pm – 8pm. The fair then remains open to the public on Friday 19th\, Saturday 20th and Monday 22nd February (9am – 5pm except Saturday which is 10am – 4pm).
URL:https://www.mhhv.org.au/event/book-fair/
LOCATION:The Royal Historical Society of Victoria\, 239 A’Beckett Street\, Melbourne\, 3000\, Australia
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20210221T053000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20210221T073000
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SUMMARY:Blood And Bone - WW2 Play about Australian & Greek friendship
DESCRIPTION:Blood and Bone is a new play about friendship between Australians and Greeks that outlasted WW2 battles. \n \nWritten by Meg McNena and directed by Demetra Giannakopoulos\, it portrays the courage and sacrifice of Anzac\, Greek and Cretan combatants and civilians\, the women’s struggles\, and post-war Greek migration to Australia. Inspired by interviews with 2/7th veterans captured on Crete\, it highlights the importance of mateship to survive as people and nations. \nBetween Saturday 20 February 2021 6:30 PM and Sunday 21 February 2021 3:30 PM
URL:https://www.mhhv.org.au/event/blood-and-bone-ww2-play-about-australian-greek-friendship/
LOCATION:Renaissance Theatre\, 826 High St\, East Kew\, Victoria\, 3012\, Australia
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20210222T023000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20210222T043000
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SUMMARY:Blood And Bone - WW2 Play about Australian & Greek friendship
DESCRIPTION:Blood and Bone is a new play about friendship between Australians and Greeks that outlasted WW2 battles. \n \nWritten by Meg McNena and directed by Demetra Giannakopoulos\, it portrays the courage and sacrifice of Anzac\, Greek and Cretan combatants and civilians\, the women’s struggles\, and post-war Greek migration to Australia. Inspired by interviews with 2/7th veterans captured on Crete\, it highlights the importance of mateship to survive as people and nations. \nBetween Saturday 20 February 2021 6:30 PM and Sunday 21 February 2021 3:30 PM
URL:https://www.mhhv.org.au/event/blood-and-bone-ww2-play-about-australian-greek-friendship-2/
LOCATION:Renaissance Theatre\, 826 High St\, East Kew\, Victoria\, 3012\, Australia
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20210225T233000
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SUMMARY:The Coming War for the South China Sea - LTCOL Alistair Pope\,(ret’d) psc\, CM
DESCRIPTION:Royal United Services Institute of Victoria – Lunchtime Address – Thursday 25th February 2019 at 1230 – ANZAC House \, 4 Collins St\, Melbourne.\n\nLTCOL Alistair Pope\,(ret’d) psc\, CM \nTOPIC:\nThe Coming War for the South China Sea \nCoffee and Tea from 1130 am.\,\nEntrance fee: $10\nPlease note that the Annual General Meeting of RUSI VIC will take place between 12noon and 1230pm. \nIt would be appreciated if you could advise your attendance to enable catering and seating to be arranged. \nContact the office\, preferably by email to secretary@rusivic.org.au or phone 9282 5918 by 2pm Monday 22nd February 2021.
URL:https://www.mhhv.org.au/event/the-coming-war-for-the-south-china-sea-ltcol-alistair-poperetd-psc-cm/
LOCATION:ANZAC House\, 4\, Collins St\, Melbourne
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