Tuesday – 16 April 2024, 5.30 – 7.30pm Anti-Slavery and Protection in Port Phillip and New South Wales: The Curious Colonial Afterlife of the 1837 Select Committee Report on Aborigines, by Professor Penelope Edmonds, Matthew Flinders Professor, History, Flinders University, South Australia, author of Urbanizing Frontiers: Indigenous peoples and settlers in 19th-century Pacific Rim cities. […]
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La Trobe’s Birthday Celebration
Sunday – 17 March 2024, 4.30 – 6.30pm La Trobe Family Portraits: Important portraits of Charles Joseph’s father Christian Ignatius La Trobe and grandfather Rev. Benjamin La Trobe will be on display after extensive conservation. Their portraits were painted by renown artists Thomas Barber and John Astley and were donated to the National Trust by […]
Open Day at La Trobe’s Cottage
Sunday – October 2023 to April 2024, 1.00 – 3.30pm Spend your afternoon in the beautiful Domain, with a guided tour of the home of our first governor Charles Joseph La Trobe and his family. You will be able to see their elegant yet simple prefabricated house from Melbourne’s early days, surrounded by plants from […]