History Issue No. 269 June/July 2007

NEWSRoyal Historical Society of GGIANTIANT THANK YOU We would like to say THANK YOU for your support by enclosing a 2 for 1 movie pass to the wonderful new fi lm Driving Lessons, from the writer of “Her Majesty, Mrs Brown”, or BBOOKOOK the French fi lm My Best Friend. We hope you enjoy the fi lm! Please support one MEMBERSHIP DRIVE of our major SSALEALE RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP NOW INTRODUCE A FRIEND AND fundraisers of FOR YOUR CHANCE TO WIN…. WIN! the year. In this edition of History News is your If you introduce a friend to the RHSV and SUNDAY JULY 29 10am – 4.00pm th membership renewal form. Forms are also they join by the 20 July Donations of books are now most on our website. Renew your subscription You’ll get: welcome. Books on any subject are by July 20th and go in the draw to win a - a second chance at winning a gratefully received. “Winter Survival Pack” with all the makings Winter Survival Pack for an enjoyable night out on the town and Please ‘phone the offi ce on 9326 9288 to - a 2 for 1 movie pass to see the very a relaxing night in sitting by the fi re! The arrange for us to collect them, or bring moving and poignant fi lm Evening pack consists of: starring Toni Collette and Glenn them yourself into the RHSV. Remember Close there’s free parking outside the front door A double pass to Theatre Your friend will get: for up to 10 minutes. Company Production of The Glass Soldier by Hannie Rayson AND The Encyclopedia - an entry into the Winter Survival The RHSV offi ce hours are weekdays of Melbourne edited by Andrew Brown May Pack draw 9.00a.m. to 5.00p.m. and Shurlee Swain. - a 2 for 1 movie pass to see There are TWO wonderful Winter Survival Evening Packs to be won. - all the benefits that come with being a RHSV member.

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This is becoming a popular RHSV The Encyclopedia of The Glass Soldier membership offer. Melbourne 8th August – 8th September Order wonderful Melbourne Theatre Company – Edited by Andrew Brown-May and Shurlee winter wines perfect The Arts Centre Playhouse Swain for comfort food or Written by Victorian playwright Hannie This volume has Rayson this play is a true story. When artist elegant meals through become essential Nelson Ferguson went to war he promised the RHSV. You will in everybody’s sweet heart Maddie that he would not die. be supporting our book collection. But for keeping his promise he paid a terrible work whilst receiving Melbourne is price – the loss of his sight that had been his delicious wines fortunate in its livelihood and his spirit. It is a great story elegantly labeled with historians; their transcending Australian themes of mateship contributions to this and love and highlights a generation that the RHSV logo – a book make it a compelling guide to the had endured two world wars and the great perfect gift or for your city’s living history and an affi rmation of depression. Based on original letters and own “cellar”. The its civic ethos. documents it is the stuff of contemporary order form is on the approaches to history. reverse of the “What’s On” fl ier. INSIDE THIS ISSUE – YOUR COPY OF THE VICTORIAN HISTORICAL JOURNAL 1 RHSV News

way AGM Report g Head Retiring Councillors Makin th The 97 Annual Assoc. Prof. Don Garden and Nonie Long retired at the AGM. Don Garden had served as a General Meeting was Vice President and Councillor on various committees. His contributions were greatly felt as opened with some general remarks a member of the Constitution Review Committee, Speakers Program and conferences. He from President represented the RHSV on the Federation of Australian Historical Societies and is a Fellow of Professor Bill the RHSV and FAHS. Russell. It had Nonie Long has made an outstanding contribution to the manuscript collection. She has served .au rriiaa..orrg.aug rryyvicctoto w..hhisisttoo been a year when ww on the Collections Committee and has been invaluable in making the collection accessible. of Victoria the difficult financial Sity position had been turned around. The year Although she retired from Council she will remain as a volunteer at the RHSV. had concluded with a surplus of $21,800. Great Two new Councillors were elected, who we introduce below. credit must go to the research team who raised $20,000 in research fees and the staff who ran the organization within a tight budget. A busy LENORE FROST JUDITH SMART speakers program, a conference and exhibitions Lenore has had a long-time interest in family Judith is a principal fellow at the University of had brought new audiences to the RHSV. The history, but in more recent times has moved Melbourne and an adjunct professor at RMIT History Victoria Support Group continued to more towards work in local history, and has University. She has published on Australian raise the profi le for the RHSV and delivered published books on the history of Essendon women's organisations in the fi rst half of the a program of well supported workshops and and Flemington, as well as books on family 20th Century, as well as on women and political seminars throughout Victoria. Challenges lay history topics. protest, women and religion, venereal diseases, in building up and sustaining income through labour youth organisation, the impact of war, Her most recent publication is Essendon and the membership and fi nding other sources of the Miss beauty contest and the Billy Boer war, with letters from the Veldt, 1899-1902. income. He concluded by remarking that in Graham crusade in Australia in 1959. Current view of the diversity and intensity of cultural She is currently the President of the Essendon projects include a study of Melbourne during and even alternative historical offerings in Historical Society, also of the West Bourke World War I, stressing its role as the national Victoria, it is pleasing that our Society, now Heritage Association, formed to promote capital, and (with Professor Marian Quartly) in its 97th year of continuous operation, should historical societies in the western suburbs of a history of the National Council of Women still be a drawcard; the little ship encircled on Melbourne. She also serves on the History of Australia. She is also involved in an ARC the RHSV’s logo is still well and truly afl oat Victoria Support Group of the Royal Historical Linkage project with Dr Suellen Murray and making headway. Society of Victoria, which aims to support and (Centre for Applied Social Research, RMIT The 97th Annual Report 2006 “Making promote the activities of member societies all University), together with Domestic Violence Headway” is now available at our website over the State. Victoria, to supervise a history of the women’s www.historyvictoria.org.au or in hard refuge movement in this state. She is a past copy by ‘phoning the offi ce 9326 9288. editor of Australian Historical Studies and present editor of the Victorian Historical Journal. Award of Merit Publications committee announces exciting plans for future David Alexander (Sandy) Christie You will have received the latest packed Journal with this News. Next issue due out in November nominated by the Hastings-Western Port is a special one produced with the Monash music department comprising articles on the theme, Historical Society and the Dromana & District ‘Migration, Multiculturalism and Music’. Our editors are collaborating with Kay Dreyfus and Historical Society. Sandy has given outstanding, Joel Crotty in this exciting venture. continous and dedicated service to the history scene of the . He Next year is the Victorian centenary of women’s suffrage and we are hoping to mark this important established the Dromana & District Historical event with another special issue. Meanwhile, prospective articles continue to arrive for what will Society in 1987 serving as President and a be another general issue focusing on aspects of Victorian history due out in June 2008. tireless contributor to all aspects of the Society’s And of course, we are planning for a large special issue to mark the centenary of the RHSV in activities. Sandy has been the inspiration and 2009. As noted previously, we are interested in any ideas that members and readers of this News driving force behind the development of the might have for this issue. Formal invitations to contribute will be made early next year. The Pioneer Pathways where plaques have been RHSV has rich largely untapped archival holdings waiting for researchers. It also may be that placed for 32 pioneer families. Sandy has members and others are holding material about the RHSV collected within families over the contributed extensively to the Mornington past 100 years. We would love to hear from you. Peninsula Local History Network and his involvement in other community service As noted in the Annual Report: ‘Sponsorships for the Journal are vital for the work of the RHSV groups has added to local awareness of the and its publications committee’. If you have ideas about sponsors for our work, please let Kate history of the area. Prinsley know.

A NEW RHSV SERVICE At its last meeting, Council agreed to establish a reading service that charges appropriate fees for advice on the preparation of articles, biographies and local history manuscripts that relate to Victorian history that have a maximum length of c.20 000 words. The society contains enormous talent and experience in editing, critical reading and commenting on manuscripts. People willing to be readers are invited to volunteer through the executive offi cer. The RHSV will adopt the scale of fees charged by the Professional Historians’ Association. Normally, this fee is totally payable to the RHSV with the possibility that an amount never exceeding 50% of the fee received might be paid to readers. Once the service is established, individuals or groups seeking to use it should apply to the executive offi cer who will be advised by a group of three Council nominees. including at least one drawn from the current publications committee. Watch this space for further details! 2 RHSV Activities

LECTURES EXCURSION Smoke Gets in Your Eyes Date: Tuesday 10 July Date: Thursday 14 June Time: 5.15 Tea/Coffee . Lecture 5.45 A group discussion - Please bring along your Time: 10am – 12.00pm memories and opinions on the role of tobacco Address: 295 King St. Melbourne 3000 in our history. Cost: $15 To smoke or not to smoke? That is a question we have all faced. The pressure to conform An opportunity to be guided through this to a dangerous social habit, little understood award winning museum and its collections. until quite recently, has destroyed the health The Koorie Heritage Trust provides a powerful, of many people. Movie stars have been used informative and fascinating insight into this incessantly to glamourise and sensualise the ancient but contemporary culture. The tour act of smoking. will include a “behind the scenes” visits to the collections and library. Tobacco companies have targeted the impressionable young. They have ignored Please meet outside the Koorie Heritage Trust research (often their own) that exposed their at 9.50 am Bookings Essential 9326 9288 Premiers on the March products, and have connived to hide their culpability, or used their immense wealth to THE FELLOWS LECTURE defeat approaches in the courts. FOR YOUR DIARY Date: Tuesday 12 June What has been the place and power of tobacco in our lives? That is the question Time: Coffee/tea 5.15pm for this forum. You are asked to think about Mountain Water Tour Lecture 5.45pm your personal experience, whether of those TUESDAY 13 – FRIDAY 16 NOVEMBER 2007 Speakers: Weston Bate, Brian Costa, John pungent “Smoking” carriages on trains, nicotine stained fi ngers, chain-smoking addicts Based at Sanctuary House Resort Motel, Lack or other effects. And, on the other hand, the Badger Creek Rd., Healesville. The publication of the Victorian Premiers nature of advertising that hooked so many. Cost about $620 (all inclusive) 1856 – 2006 by the Federation Press in 2006 Who remembers cigarette cards? “Smoke up Maximum 38 places. Advise offi ce of your fi lled a gap in our knowledge of Victoria’s Dad, so that I can complete my set”. Or the interest early. political history. Victoria is different, according implausible association of the American actor to Brian Costa who masterminded the volume Richard Crookes with the up-market Craven A in partnership with Paul Strangio. Brian, now cigarette? And the fag hanging from the bottom Professor of Victorian State Parliamentary lip of an off beat Humphrey Bogart. Democracy at the Swinburne Institute of Let’s see where our memories and opinions Technology, is an important commentator take us in a session introduced and chaired by )URWKDQG%XEEOH on contemporary politics. At this meeting Weston Bate. he will be joined by two RHSV Fellows FRPPHPRUDWLQJWKHOLIHRI$XVWUDOLD·V 1DWLRQDO3RHW – Weston Bate and John Lack – who were AGL SHAW LECTURE – PRESENTED WITH THE contributors to the volume which has won LA T ROBE SOCIETY ANNUAL LECTURE $'$0/,1'6$<*25'21 critical acclaim. $UDQJHRIDFWLYLWLHVDQGVSHHFKHV The forty four premiers came from many back The Moravian Charles Joseph FRPPHPRUDWLQJWKHOLIHRISRHW grounds across the state. They brought their La Trobe KRUVHPDQODUULNLQDQGFKDPSLRQ sometimes quirky personalities as well as their VWHHSOHFKDVHMRFNH\$/LQGVD\*RUGRQ policies to the position, within governments of Date: Tuesday 26 June ³SP6XQGD\-XQH various hue. They faced all sorts of challenges as Time: 6pm for refreshments &HUHPRQ\IURPSPDW*RUGRQ the state emerged from its colonial beginnings, 6TXDUH6SULQJ6WUHHW0HOERXUQH Lecture 6.30pm shackled by a constitution that entrenched the )ROORZHGE\DFRPPHPRUDWLYHIXQFWLRQ upper house. For many years the factions rather Venue: Royal Historical Society of Victoria DQGDSSHDOODXQFKIURPSPDWWKH than parties sought to control parliament. 239 A’ Beckett Street 5R\DO+LVWRULFDO6RFLHW\RI9LFWRULD Later there was instability because no party &RVWHQWU\LQFODIWHUQRRQWHD could govern on its own. All through, the Cost: $5.00 members. $10.00 non- 9LVLWZZZDGDPOLQGVD\JRUGRQRUJ management of the house has tested premiers members. 2UULQJ and revealed their strengths and weaknesses. Booking essential: 9326 9288 %ULQJDORQJ\RXU*RUGRQUHOLFV Who were these leaders? What did their This lecture will be delivered by Dr. Robert activities reveal about society. How did Kenny. He is a fellow of the Australian Centre, circumstances affect their careers? These are , where he was recipient some of the questions that the topic will of the 2006 Peter Blazey Fellowship for his new open up. Light will be shed on somewhat book The Lamb Enters the Dreaming. Nathanial shadowy fi gures from the past, at the same Pepper & the Ruptured World when it was in time as members of the audience will prick up manuscript form. He has published several their ears about the assessment of characters volumes of poetry and fi ction, and articles on well known to them, like Bolte, Hamer, Cain literature, religious history, and the history of and Kennett. Bring your own perspective to science. He has a PhD in history from La Trobe enliven question time. University where he is also an Associate. 3 Books Received

Books Received memories of war, especially the Great War. and settled in Kyoto where he died in 1995. The author systematically explores how Kelly, as a friend, skilfully charts Stewart’s We note below relevant items sent to the the families of the 60 000 Australian dead, life as a poet and scholar deeply infl uenced Society. Interested groups or authors are whose bodies were not brought home, tried by Traditionalist writers who believed that invited to contribute to this valuable service to come to terms with their loss. It draws Westerners could restore their own spiritual to members in History News and through on the archives of the Commonwealth War traditions through study of Asian spiritual deposit in the library. Some items may later Graves Commission and private papers in traditions. The early chapters recall many be reviewed in the Victorian Historical a masterly discussion of responses to death aspects of Melbourne’s cultural life in the Journal. and commemoration. The responses are period after 1945 and place Stewart’s study drawn from across Australian society, many Ray Peace, Eliza’s group at Norman Robb’s bookshop within from Victoria including Henry Bournes Vision, A History that social context. The later chapters deal Higgins on the loss of his son, Mervyn; of Wattle Park more with Stewart’s life and work in Japan. Maude O’Loughlin on the deaths of her 1838-2006, Prahran They examine his poetry, known little in sons, George and Harry; and Isabel Simpson Mechanics Institute Australia where Stewart’s collaboration with whose son Dick was killed at Villers- Press, 2006, pp. James McAuley in the Ern Malley affair has Bretonneux in 1918. viii + 207. ISBN usually been his sole recognition. 0 9756000 6 1. Joy E. Rainey, Spuds, Rabbits and Flour Frank Gardiner, Gardiner, A Family History Distributed by Bags, An Australian Farming Tell Their in Australia, Frank Gardiner, 10 Hotham Ray Peace, PO Stories of Yesteryear, Kurrajong Press, PO St, Preston, 3072, pp. 20. A little book Box 8061, Ferntree Box 535, Berwick, 3806, 2006, pp. xiii + 579, that assembles data about John Gardiner, Gully, 3156. The $38-50. ISBN 0 646 46336 5. The Bruton a 19th century immigrant ship’s captain, author chronicles the land and the people family farmed at Cheltenham, Taradale and schoolteacher, and librarian, and his of this ‘urban oasis’ in the eastern suburbs Little Hampton and had 12 children. In this descendants, many of whom lived in the of Melbourne from its prehistory to the book, one of the grand-daughters of Olive Western District. present. Eliza Welch was a key member of and Harry Bruton, collects and comments the families that controlled Ball & Welch, on the told stories of six of them – Rosa, Geraldine Sanderson, Kangaroo Ground the large Melbourne store. She became the Minnie, Bob, Stan, Bessie and Percy. The Horse and Pony Club, The First 40 Years, owner of Wattle Park in 1904 and after her result is a substantial account of hard lives PO Box 75, Kangaroo Ground, 3097, pp. 20. death in 1915, her wish that it be used by on or close to the land, mostly in various A collection of photographs with a short the general public and remain public open parts of Victoria, over the fi rst half of the 20th accompanying text. space was carried through by the Melbourne century. It is a monumental achievement John G. Jennings and Jim Zentveld, Seymour & Metropolitan Tramways Board whose in family history with much to interest Golf Club, 1906-2006, Jim Zentveld, successors controlled the park until 1991 social historians of the period especially Seymour, 2006, pp. 50. A slim history to when it was taken over by Melbourne those with connections to the specifi c local celebrate the club’s centenary, the booklet Water. It is now run by Parks Victoria and its areas mentioned. It also adds to the body of charts its foundation, locations, personnel, future is reasonably assured. There is much material about Australian life during World performance, and administration. It informs of interest in the history of the park and its War II and the Depression. There is a reliable those with links to the club and the area links to tramway extension and recreation by index but no pictorial material. about a notable institution. Well illustrated public transport users; the development of Robert Pascoe and indexed. its chalet, golf course and sporting facilities; with assistance from and its persistent battles to remain an ‘urban Gillian Hibbins, Stephen Pascoe, The oasis’. Sport and Racing in Feasts & Seasons of Colonial Melbourne, Allan Meiers, Fisher Folk of Fishermans John F. Kelly, Allen The Cousins and Me: Bend, Port Melbourne Historical and & Unwin, , Colden Harrison, Preservation Society, PO Box 552, Port 2006, pp. xx + 300. and Melbourne, 3207, 2006, pp. iv + 73. ISBN 0 ISBN 1 74175 057 William Hammersley, 975728 3 9. This is a very well-presented and 1. Monsignor John Lynedoch Publications, documented account of fi shing and other F. Kelly, ‘The Mons’, Melbourne, 2007, pp. x families including the author’s in the area of son of a publican, was + 485. The book covers Port Melbourne towards the mouth of the brought up in regional Victorian sporting Yarra and running back along the shore of Victoria. His fi rst parish was at Kyneton life 1856-1883 and is Hobson’s Bay. Always somewhat isolated, it and he later was based in West Melbourne, based on prodigious and productive reading was the site of shacks, the last of which were Footscray and Deepdene. He became of the sporting journals and columns. It is demolished with the building of Webb Dock. involved in Catholic schools becoming an written in the persona of Hammersley, a There are excellent maps and photographs inspector and later director of the Catholic prolifi c if not always truthful sports writer. and much that is engaging in this well-told Education Offi ce. A scholar of substance, he This writing artifi ce seems to work well in story of ‘other’ lives in the metropolis of was in the forefront of progressive Catholic what is a signifi cant addition to Victorian Melbourne. discussion of social justice, education, the sports history and social history. Meticulously place of women, both before and after Bart Ziino, A Distant researched and documented, the author Vatican II. This rich, interesting, well- Grief, Australians, War also contributes a very informative researched and wide-ranging biography tells Graves and the Great prologue and epilogue, as well as two most much about the man and the Australian Wa r , University of instructive appendices, one on the origin of Catholic church. He died in 1993. Western Australia Press, Australian Rules that surely must Perth, 2007, pp. xi + Peter Kelly, Buddha in Bookshop, Harold be the essential reference point for anyone 243, $39-95. ISBN Stewart and the Traditionalists, Ulysses commenting on this phenomenon, and 978 1 920694 89 0. Press, 132 Rae Street, North Fitzroy, 3068, the other on Hammersley’s writing career. There is an increasing 2007, pp. viii + 176. ISBN 978 0 646 46977 Handsomely produced and illustrated, with literature on Australian 5. Harold Stewart left Melbourne in 1966 an excellent index. 4 Community News The Uncle Stewart Murray OAM Library @ the Koorie Heritage Trust Cultural Centre he Koorie Heritage Trust aims to protect, have been donated by members of the Trust and contact Judy Williams, Librarian on a Monday, preserve and promote the living culture long time supporters of the Trust. With a band of Tuesday or a Thursday between 9:00am – 5:00pm Tof the Indigenous people of south- dedicated volunteers we are at present exploring or email [email protected] . eastern Australia. The Uncle Stewart Murray rare, early primary sources of information which The Koorie Heritage Trust Cultural Centre is OAM Library is a unique library located on are held by a variety of institutions and private open to the public 7 days a week between the the ground fl oor of the Koorie Heritage Trust collections and copying relevant sections for our hours of 10:00 – 4:00pm. Cultural Centre, 295 King Street, Melbourne. collection. www.koorieheritagetrust.com This Library contains the most comprehensive The Library is of particular value to the many Tel: 8622 2600 collection of written materials on the Indigenous programs, projects and activities run by the Trust. people of South-eastern Australia, holding In particular the Library has been the primary over 6,000 books, papers, videos, government resource for projects such as the Trust’s joint documents and serials from the 1840’s to the project with the ABC to create a website on present day. The earliest item in the collection Victoria’s Missions and Reserves www.abc.net. was printed in 1840 but many items are au/missionvoices, The Library provided valuable considered rare as they are no longer in print. historical information on Victorian Missions in It complements the purpose of the Trust which the 1800’s and 1900’s. The journals of George focuses on preserving, protecting and promoting Augustus Robinson, Chief Protector, Port Koorie, culture and heritage in order to promote Phillip Aboriginal Protectorate from the 1840’s awareness, understanding and appreciation of provided valuable primary accounts of early Koorie culture and heritage in south-eastern cultural practices supporting the Trust’s Research HMAS Castlemaine Australia. and Interpretation Project. The various reports – Museum Ship As a non-borrowing research Library open to and government documents held in the Library Moogji members (friends) of the Trust and the support the valuble research work undertaken On Sunday 17 June, the Marine Trust general public (who pay a day rate for use). by the Trust’s Family History Unit in updating will celebrate the 65th Anniversary of the The Library services a wide range of users its genealogy database. The project “Finding commissioning of the historic vessel in from writers, researchers, artists, fi lm producers, a Different Melbourne” being developed by 1942 with special displays uncluding a line universities, schools, the Koorie Community and the Trust’s Public Programs Unit focuses on up of WWII military vehicles alongside on general public. Indigenous, colonial and contemporary events Gem Pier, Williamstown, all day. around Melbourne, to provide the background The collection is organised under a colour- Also during the afternoon a splendid material from which educational walks and new model of the colonial warship coded system in subject areas under author. The tours can be developed. The broad range of HMVS Cereberus (1870) will be collection includes a facsimile copy of the fi rst contemporary and historical written resources offi cially presented to the museum, and book printed and published in Melbourne Latest provide valuble resources to the Trust’s exhibitions will be on view with many historic information with Regard to Australian Felix, 1840. It and public programs in the preperation of pictures and documents not seen before also includes letters from the Reverend J. Bulmer exhibitions and displays and interpreting items including the ships original log book who was the Manager of the Lake Tyers Mission displayed from the Trust’s Collection. for the delivery voyage to Melbourne from 1861- 1907 to the General Inspector of during 1870 – 71. the Board for Protection of Aborigines. Some Since our move to the King Street Cultural Centre the Koorie Heritage Trust, is continuing The Historical Re-enactment Group of our rare book items such as a fi rst edition life will be present during the day in period of William Buckley by Morgan a special two to receive increasing visitors and requests from the Koorie community and members of the public. costume and fi re cannon to mark the volume edition of Brough Smyth The Aborigines event. All Welcome. of Victoria. We also have several cabinets housing The Library is a welcoming environment, with Further details www.hmascastlemaine.com historical reports and papers which are listed on a knowledgeable, friendly part time Librarian our Users’ Catalogue. Many of our holdings to support access to this signifi cant collection. The Museum is open every weekend People interested in accessing the Library should 11am – 4pm

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Children’s Literature Collection HISTORY VICTORIA SUPPORT GROUP State Library of Victoria – RHSV SEMINAR DAY SATURDAY 7 JULY 2007 By Juliet O’Conor Hosted by: The State Library of Victoria’s Children’s Literature Collection consists of over Royal Historical Society Victoria Inc. th st 100,000 children’s books published between the 16 and 21 centuries. Theme: BUILDING BRIDGES - To meet the research needs of our users, the in early works took a new trajectory in the Children’s Literature Collection specializes in mid 19th century with the fl ight into fantasy Networking in the Australian children’s literature to a level more that Lewis Carroll’s Alice books became. The comprehensive than any public institution in the Library’s selection of pivotal books across fi ve Community world. We also hold an extraordinary collection centuries of children’s book publishing provides 09.30 Registration and morning tea of overseas children’s books, both antiquarian a foundation for viewing changing concepts of and contemporary, to locate Australia’s literature the child, childhood, and class distinctions 10.00 Welcome, introduction, within a broader context. between the literate and the illiterate. reports, general information: Our children’s books are held in three named Developments in printing techniques can be collections: charted from 17th century Chapbooks, through 10.00 Convenor, History Victoria boldly coloured Toy Books, Edwardian Gift Support Group Joan Hunt – • The Children’s Literature Research Books and today’s graphic novels. Chapbooks welcome Collection is the fastest growing were sold by traveling salesmen or Chapmen collection, increasing by approximately 10.05 President, RHSV Prof. Bill during the 17th and 18th centuries. 3,000 volumes each year. Russell They were cheaply produced Established in 1976 by books of rhymes, fairytales and 10.10 Exec. Director, Royal Historical Margaret Ingham, it contains fables illustrated most often with Society Victoria, Kate Prinsley 19th, 20 th and 21st century wood block prints. Coloured 10.20 Local History Officer, Vicki Australian and overseas illustrations in children’s books Court children’s books ranging through fi ction, were boldly embraced by late 19th century picture books, poetry, folktales, myths, 10.30 SEMINAR PAPER NO. 1: printers who employed well known artists to legends and non fi ction. illustrate familiar fairytales, reproducing them Working with Councils and Your • The Ken Pound Collection was in bright primary colours, framed by borders to Community: Chair: Prof Bill acquired from a private collector in assist placement of the page during successive Russell 1994, consists primarily of early to applications of colour through wood block A panel of speakers will discuss their th mid 20 century Australian and New printing presses. In Europe the master printer experiences on this topic. Zealand children’s books and ephemera. best known for refi ning the printing technique Followed by group discussion • The third collection is the Rare Children’s involved in Toy Book production, was Edmund Book Collection containing publications Evans. He combined a familiar text with the 12.30 LUNCH - catered from the 16th century onwards. Material artwork of popular artists such as Walter Crane, 1.30 SEMINAR PAPER NO. 2: Randolph Caldecott and Kate Greenaway. in this collection places Australia’s literary (a) Proposal for the Establishment of The brothers William and Samuel Calvert history within a broader international Regional Hubs context. brought these same techniques to Australia in their Australian Toy Book series and collection (b) Collections Conservation Support The Australian component of the Children’s items display the Calvert’s sensitivity to the Project: South West Region Pilot Literature Collection functions as a literary differences between the colours of European Speaker: Pam Enting, Outreach Offi cer, heritage collection. As such it refl ects what was and Australian settings, especially so in their Heritage Victoria. written for children about Australia since the Toy Book This is the House that Jack Built in th late 18 century; what was published within Australia (1871). In complete contrast to Toy Followed by discussion Australia from the beginnings of the children’s Books came the high quality productions 4.00pm Afternoon tea and fi nish. book publishing scene in the 1840s; and the of the Edwardian period, called Gift Books. changing pattern of Australian children’s Designed to showcase the work of artists such ($12 per head includes morning and reading over time. These are examples of as Edmund Dulac, Arthur Rackham or Kay afternoon tea and a light lunch). broadly sweeping applications for research Nielsen attention focused on high quality book Bookings (03) 9326 9288 afforded by this collection, but the Australian production techniques. component can form the basis of research into the minutiae of literary analysis and reader Today children are challenged visually, Jungle, Desert, Ice response, to name but two. intellectually and socially in books and our collecting continues to record As noted in last History News, Sue Blackwood The overseas component of the Children’s comprehensively Australia’s publishing output recently completed her thesis about the Literature Collection places Australian children’s for a child readership, counterpointing it with Royal Geographical Society of Australasia literature within an international setting. Again representative works published overseas. The Victorian Branch that amalgamated with research is possible in broad sweeps of the Library’s Children’s Literature Collection the Historical Society of Victoria in 1920. global stage, making tangible changing notions encourages research across disciplines and has She has generously donated a copy of this of childhood through textual content. Insight many applications to both refl ect social changes important study and it is now available in the into societal aspirations through language and and challenge reader response. library. Thanks Sue! thematic emphasis on good moral behaviour 6 Around the Societies

AROUND THE SOCIETIES FRIENDS OF BOROONDARA (KEW) BRUNSWICK: Ken Missen will speak on CEMETERY are holding a tour of the This column is compiled by Joan Hunt “Refractories and their use in industry” at Cemetery focusing on the famous memorials on behalf of History Victoria Support 1.30pm on June 2, at Brunswick Town Hall, in the Cemetery on July 29 at 2pm. Cost Group using information provided by and on 7 July Robin Vowels will speak on $15.00. at 432 High St. Kew. Details 9817 Societies either directly or contained in ‘The Brunswick Foundry’. Ring Francesca 4896 or [email protected]. their newsletters. For next issue please send on 9387 1194 for details. details of forthcoming events by 10 June to HASTINGS-WESTERN PORT: A [email protected] CAMPERDOWN: On Tuesday June seminar on “Volunteers” was held recently 5 at 8.00pm Cheryl Miller from Scott’s at the Hastings Museum, organized Creek will tell her fascinating story of by the Local History Offi cer, Sally ANGLICAN: On Wednesday 20 June, Mrs being a pioneer female horse racing jockey Robins and was very well attended, with Mary Harris will speak on ‘The Abolition of in the early 1970s, in the McCabe Room, numerous experiences and ideas shared. the Slave Trade in 1807’ at the Canon’s Vestry, Camperdown. Contact the Society at PO Representatives of many neighbouring the Diocesan Offi ces. Contact Secretary Box 243, Camperdown, 3260. groups participated in this. An exhibition on Bruce on 9818 4565 for details. “We Remember” was held at the Hastings CARISBROOK: A grant of $27,000 library and this was in partnership with the BALLARAT: Marion Blythman will speak will upgrade the Town Hall home of the Hastings RSL. Morning Coffees continue on the history of Ballarat Special School historical society. A general meeting will be to attract new people and on Wed 29 August at the Gold Museum, Bradshaw Street, held at 7.30 in the Town Hall on Tuesday 19 at 10.15am Wendy Morrison of the Tyabb at 7.30 on Tuesday 12 June. The YMCA June. See www.c.gold.com.au Packing House will speak on Antiques and Camera Club has agreed to take portraits of Collectables. Bookings to 03 9781 1141. local Ballarat people, famous, infamous and CASTLEMAINE: “Fish and Chips anonymous, which will become part of the in Castlemaine” will be Peter Padreny’s HEALESVILLE: Tom Osburg will speak BHS collection. An exhibition entitled Got talk at 7.30pm on Monday 4 June at on postcards of Healesville and surrounding the Picture? Ballarat Photography 1945- the Former Court House, 7 Goldsmith districts at 2pm on Sunday 24 June at the 2005 is currently being shown at the Gold Crescent, Castlemaine, and on 2 July an Society’s Rooms in the Healesville Memorial Museum. See www.ballarathistoricalsociety. historical fi lm night will be held. See www. Hall. Phone Secretary Alma on 5962 3601 com castlemainehistoricalsociety.com or see healesvillehistorical.websyte.com.au

BALLARAT GENEALOGICAL: At COLAC: On Saturday 23 June at 1.30pm HEIDELBERG: At 8pm on Tuesday 12 7.30pm on Tuesday, 26 June in the meeting Dr Adrian Haas will talk about his new book June, Janine Rizzetti will speak on ‘The room at Ballarat Library, 178 Doveton Street dealing with the history of the Mechanic’s Sacking of Judge Willis’, at the Uniting north, Joy Menhennet will speak on the Institute and its place in colonial society, Church Community Centre, Sneddon St, history of the Cornish in Ballarat and her at the COPACC History Centre Colac. Ivanhoe. Phone 9455 2130 or see http:// experiences as a Cornish Bard. Members Contact Secretary on 5231 4831 heidelberg.50webs.com are indexing petitions 1860-1866 submitted to Ballarat Council, to be published on a DANDENONG: On Saturday 16 June HORSHAM: At 8m on Wednesday 6 June searchable database on CD in early August. the annual luncheon will be held at the members will bring an item of memorabilia See www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au Dandenong Club, cnr Heatherton and Stud to talk about, and on Wednesday 4 July the Roads, with guest speaker Darren Mayne AGM will be held, at 33 Pynsent Street, BELLARINE: A display on Schools of the talking about the Rotary Club Shelter Box Horsham. 2007 marks the 50th anniversary Bellarine will be exhibited during June, at Project, “Housing 8,000 people in seven of the Society the Old Courthouse Museum, High Street, days’, at $27 per head for a two-course meal. Contact Secretary Lorna on 5382 1608 or Drysdale, open the fi rst Sunday each month Phone Carmen on 9794 2456 for details and see www.vicnet.net.au/~hhs 1.30 to 4.30pm. The death of foundation and bookings. life member Tom Connor is noted. Phone: HOTHAM: At 8pm on Tuesday 26 June 5253 1715 or email [email protected] EAST : A general meeting there will be a presentation on North will be held at 2.00pm on Saturday 9th June Melbourne in the 1850's, to celebrate the BOX HILL: On Thursday 21 June Dr at 40 Macarthur Street, Bairnsdale. The 150th anniversary of the establishment Celestina Sagazio will give an illustrated museum is open Wednesdays and Sundays 1- of Mattingley's school in Errol Street, the presentation exploring the history of the 4pm. Phone: 5152 6363 or see http://mc2. forerunner of the Errol Street Primary fascinating and unique Queen Victoria vicnet.net.au/home/eghs/web School. Our favourite Thespian, Jim Brady, Market, entitled “Grave Stories of the Queen (who appeared as "The Vagabond" at the Victoria Market”. There are no other markets FITZROY: At 6.30pm on Tuesday 19 Beat the Bounds of the Benevolent Asylum of this scale, occupying the original buildings, June at the 1890s Clifton Hill Presbyterian 150th celebration, November 2000, and as anywhere in Australia. The market is the site Church, cnr Michael & McKean Streets, "John Buncle", Buncle Day, Hotham History of Melbourne’s fi rst offi cial cemetery, and North Fitzroy, Tim Gatehouse will explain Project AGM, September 2005) will present many burials remain on the site. much of the history of the area. Phone Tim excerpts from Albert Mattingley's address on 9489 2357. On Sunday 1 July at 10.30am to the Royal Historical Society of Victoria BRIGHT: The 150th anniversary of the Terry Nott will lead a walk of the Inner in 1915 on the early history of North infamous Buckland Riot will be marked Circle Railway, opened in 1888 and now Melbourne. Phone Secretary Mary on 9329 on the weekend of 30 June to 1 July, with a linear park. Meet at the Carlton North 5814 or see www.hothamhistory.org.au attractions including a parade of Chinese Railway Station Neighbourhood House, 20 dragons and lion dancers, drummers and Solly Avenue, North Carlton. Contact Chris MALMSBURY: At 1.00pm on Tuesday a Chinese dance troupe, plus much more. on 9489 2834. 19 June a meeting will be held at the Contact Joy on [email protected] Mechanics’ Institute, Mollison Street, or write to the Bright & District Historical Malmsbury. Contact Secretary Susan on Society, PO Box 265. 5423 9383 or email [email protected] 7 Around thethe SocietiesSocieties

MARYBOROUGH-MIDLANDS: On raider Shenandoah in Melbourne 1865. All Exhibitions: a practical Wednesday 20 June an excursion will leave welcome. Further details Peter Williams Hon. Worsley Cottage at 1.30pm, by car convoy, Sec. 98530823 before 10am. guide for small museums and for the Mill Antique Market, Daylesford. For galleries details phone Secretary Betty on 5461 2800 SUNSHINE: A re-enactment of portion or see www.vicnet.net.au/~mbhs. of two Council meetings, one held in Exhibitions: a practical guide for small museums 1907 and one in 1957, will take place on and galleries is the fi rst step-by-step guide MORNINGTON: At 10.30am on Tuesday Thursday 7th June. Bookings are essential, book on how to initiate, manage and 12 June at the Old Post Offi ce Museum, cnr through Frank on 9312 2284. See www. deliver an exhibition. The book will Main Street and the Esplanade, Mornington, sunshinehistoricalsociety.org.au assist small museums and galleries. It Phil Wiseman, a qualifi ed youth worker includes a comprehensive list of all the and one of a team of street artists who SURREY HILLS: Arthur Tonkin, vice- documentation templates you will need to paint murals on buildings, will discuss the president of the Society, will speak on ‘Early deliver exhibitions to museum standards difference between street art and graffi ti. Australian Artists and Their Infl uences’, and includes a CD-ROM. The book costs at 8pm on Monday 18 June, at the $20 (including GST) + $8.50 postage and NEPEAN: Peter McCall, Chairman of Neighbourhood Centre, 157 Union Road, handling. COASTCOM Security, will speak about Surrey Hills. Contact Robin on 0407 548 Security Issues on the Peninsula at 8.00pm 116 or email [email protected] For further information contact Debbie on on Friday 1 June at the Society’s rooms at (02) 6273 2437 Sorrento. Sally Robins has been appointed TRENTHAM: On Monday 11 June at at Professional In Residence with the 8.00pm Dave Evans will speak on mining Mornington Peninsula Shire until June 2007 accidents, at the Trentham Railway Station via a grant from Arts Victoria. historical society rooms. Contact Secretary Gael on 5424 1261 or see http://home. PORT FAIRY: At 7.30pm on the second vicnet.net.au/~trenhist. Tuesday in June at the Court House, 30 Gipps Street, Port Fairy, a Show and Tell WARRNAMBOOL: Booklet three of History night will be held, when attendees are the Warrnambool Hotel series, “First-Class encouraged to bring along to share an item Accommodation and Stabling” (the Red of interest such as a letter, object or picture. Lion/Stork/Germania/Princess Royal Hotel Phone Secretary Benia on 5568 2492 or see and the Flying Buck/Farmers’ Arms/Turf www.historicalsociety.port-fairy.com Club Hotel) is now available for $10. Phone NEWS Secretary Jane on 5565 1251 or email PORT MELBOURNE: On Tuesday 25 [email protected] ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF VICTORIA INC. June commencing at 5pm at the Railway 239 A’BECKETT STREET MELBOURNE 3000 Club Hotel screenings of members’ WAVERLEY: On Sunday 1st July the Phone: 9326 9288 productions will take place, and a request annual steam train rides, when a $10 ticket Fax: 9326 9477

repeat of Glen Stuart’s early fi lms of Port will give you a return trip starting/ending at website: http://www.historyvictoria.org.au Melbourne. See www.vicnet.net.au/ Darling, Mt Waverley or Geln Waverley. A email: offi [email protected] ~pmhps. display at Glen Waverley station by Waverley ABN 36 520 675 471 Historical Society, and one at Darling Registration No. A2529 ROSEDALE & DISTRICT: “The history station by Malvern Historical Society may Offi ce Hours: Monday to Friday and heritage of fruit growing in Victoria” be viewed. Phone Secretary Norma on 9am to 5pm presented by Mr. Neil Barraclough on 9802 9332 or email see www.vicnet.net. Library Hours: Monday to Friday Wedenesday June 6 at 7.30pm. The meeting au/~whsvic 10am to 4pm will be held at “King Heritage House” 10 ESTABLISHED 1909 th Lyons Street, Rosedale. Supper is provided. WENDISH: The 150 anniversary President Prof Bill Russell Gold coin donation. of the arrival of immigrant pioneers in Executive Offi cer Kate Prinsley Melbourne on ships from Hamburg: La Administrative Offi cer Gerardine Horgan RYE: At 8pm on Monday 25 June a general Rochelle, Neumuhlen, Cesar Godeffroy, IT Manager Vicki Court meeting will be held with a guest speaker, at Carl, Dorothea, Gottingen, Manila, the Library of Rye Primary School. The Hermann and Sverge. The dinner will be Design and Artwork: Kiplings Business Communications 0419 135 332 Society’s cataloguing system is being re- held on Saturday 6 October at 6pm at the evaluated, to be entered into a database. Richwood Lutheran Church Hall, at $25 per Printed by: DPM 9558 1511 Contact Secretary Ern on 5985 3827. person. Phone Clay on 9779 3599 or email [email protected] The RHSV acknowledges the support of the Victorian SHIPLOVERS SOCIETY OF Government through Arts Victoria VICTORIA: established in 1930 the SSV. WOADY YALOAK: Mr Colin Wright will Is the oldest maritime enthusiast group in speak on his research into district foundries, Victoria, and meets regularly on the second at 1.30pm on Sunday 17 June at the Court Wednesday of each month at 8pm, at the House, 64 Brooke Street, Smythesdale. Port of Melbourne, Education Centre, Phone Secretary Bill on 5342 8594 or see 343 Lorimer St. Port Melbourne next to http://wyhs.ballarat.vic.au Items for publication should be sent to the the Post Control Tower and close to Todd Executive Offi cer, RHSV email: offi [email protected] Rd. Forthcoming speakers include: June Copy closes 10th of the month – John Rogers experiences of a marine Price $1.50 engineer; July – Laurie Dilks Yarra River PRINT POST APPROVED PP336663/00011 Works, Bolte Bridge ; August – confederate ISSN 1326-2696

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