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Sunday – 25 September 2016
La Trobe’s Jolimont Cottage and Garden 1839 to 2016: 2.30 – 4pm Speaker: Helen Botham, La Trobe Society member, who will talk about the development of La Trobe’s Jolimont estate, and aspects of the La Trobes’ family life at Jolimont. It will reveal some lesser-known facts about the Cottage and its owners. Venue: Domain House (next door to La Trobe’s Cottage), Dallas Brooks Drive, Melbourne 3004. Cost: $5, includes afternoon tea. Bookings: Daryl Ross, daryl@latrobesociety.org.au, or phone 9822 3328 (please leave a message) (La Trobe Society/Friends of La Trobe’s Cottage event) |
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Sunday – 2 October 2016
Spring Opening at La Trobe’s Cottage: 2 – 4pm A special spring opening of La Trobe’s Cottage, celebrating the 177th anniversary of the arrival of Charles Joseph La Trobe, Victoria’s first Governor, and his family in early Melbourne. Visitors will be able to see how the 1840s-50s garden has developed and enjoy the glories of spring. |
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Sunday – 16 & 23 October 2016
History Week at La Trobe’s Cottage: 2 – 4pm  Tours will focus on Charles Joseph La Trobe as the pioneering administrator in Victoria’s foundation and also provide an insight into family life at his ‘Jolimont’ estate. Click here to visit the History Week website |
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Early Melbourne Paintings: selected times (or as arranged for groups) Exhibition of Early Melbourne paintings, lithographs, watercolours and sketches, from the Roy Morgan Research collection. Special tours in conjunction with historic furniture. Venue: Old Treasury Building, 20 Spring Street, Melbourne. Cost: $8 adults. Bookings essential: Ph 9651 2233, email bookings@oldtreasurybuilding.org.au Catalogue Images |
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Nature and Art: reflections of two of Ightham Mote's previous residents: to 30 October 2016 An exhibition celebrating two gentlemen artists of the 19th century, naturalist Prideaux John Selby who produced Illustrations of British Ornithology (1821-1834) and botanist Charles Joseph La Trobe who sketched his travels in three continents, including views of the manor house Ightham Mote where he lived 1855. Venue: Ightham Mote (National Trust), Sevenoaks, Kent UK. Cost: ₤11 (entry to property; NT members free). Enquiries: Bernadette.gillow@nationaltrust.org.uk Catalogue |
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Tuesday – 30 August 2016
Melbourne Day: 10am–12pm Melburnians were invited to join Lord Mayor at Enterprize Park at 10am for the official Flag Raising Ceremony to celebrate the 181st anniversary of the founding of Melbourne. The free public activities included live entertainment, morning tea and a rifle volley plus cannon fire by the Historical Re-enactment Society of Australia. |
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Sunday – 28 August 2016
La Trobe’s Enduring Legacy: 2.30 – 4pm Speaker: Dr Dianne Reilly, La Trobe Society founder, who talked about the achievements that La Trobe made in his term as Superintendent of the Port Phillip District 1839 to 1851 and later as Lieutenant-Governor of the new colony of Victoria 1851 to 1854, from which all Victorians benefit today. Venue: Domain House (next door to La Trobe’s Cottage), Dallas Brooks Drive, Melbourne 3004. (La Trobe Society/Friends of La Trobe’s Cottage event) |
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Wednesday – 3 August 2016
La Trobe Society Annual General Meeting and Dinner: 6.30pm Guest speaker: Professor Graeme Davison, eminent historian and Sir John Monash Distinguished Professor, Monash University, whose topic was ‘The Governor, the Captain and the Needlewomen: how my great-great grandmother arrived in Port Phillip’. Venue: Lyceum Club, Ridgway Place, Melbourne. Link (La Trobe Society event) |
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Sunday – 31 July 2016 Victoria before Separation: 2.30 – 4pm Speaker: Loreen Chambers, La Trobe Society member, who talked about the early days of the Port Phillip settlement, and the ‘unnamed little shanty town’ of 1836 that was to become Melbourne, the capital of the newly-created colony of Victoria in July 1851 with a population of nearly 29,000. Venue: Domain House (next door to La Trobe’s Cottage), Dallas Brooks Drive, Melbourne 3004. (La Trobe Society/Friends of La Trobe’s Cottage event) |
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Friday – 15 July 2016
Melbourne Rare Book Week Lecture: 6.30 – 8.00pm ‘Books from a Turbulent Time: John Emmerson and the 17th century’, Guest speakers: State Library Victoria Rare Books Team:- Des Cowley, History of the Book Manager, with Richard Overell. Venue: Morgans at 401, 401 Collins Street, Melbourne. Link (Presented by The La Trobe Society for Melbourne Rare Book Week 2016 and generously sponsored by Mr Gary Morgan, Executive Chairman, Roy Morgan Research.) |
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Friday – 1 July 2016
Victoria Day: 10.30am – 12pm Victoria Day Council celebration of the 165th anniversary of the Separation of the Port Phillip District from New South Wales. Victorian flag raising ceremony and the re-enactment of Lieutenant-Governor La Trobe's reading of the proclamation, followed by the presentation of the Victoria Day Awards. Venue: Melbourne Town Hall. |
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Tuesday – 21 June 2016 C J La Trobe Society/RHSV A G L Shaw lecture: 6.30 – 8pm ‘Unless a Portion be given to the Idle: The Kulin and the New Poor Law at Port Phillip’, Guest speaker: Dr Marguerita Stephens, University of Melbourne Redmond Barry Fellow 2013. Venue: Royal Historical Society of Victoria, Cnr William and A’Beckett Streets, Melbourne. (La Trobe Society event) |
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Saturday – 18 June 2016 Beleura House & Garden Mornington: 1.30 – 4.30pm Musical afternoon for La Trobe Society members and friends, with piano virtuoso Laurence Matheson. Music of the 18th century by Christian Ignatius La Trobe, father of Charles Joseph, was presented. (La Trobe Society event) |
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Saturday – 21 May 2016 Special Open Day at La Trobe’s Cottage: 1 – 4pm Celebrating the La Trobe Family during the National Trust's 60th Anniversary celebrations. Visitors were able to hear many fascinating stories of the La Trobes’ fifteen years living in their prefabricated cottage with its beautiful garden, and of the long battle in the 1950s/60s to save the historic cottage - Melbourne’s oldest building. |
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Saturday – 14 May 2016 Beleura House & Garden Mornington: 9.30am – 2.30pm House and garden tour for La Trobe Society members and friends. |
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Sunday – 17 and 24 April 2016 Australian Heritage Festival at La Trobe’s Cottage: open 2 – 4pm Visitors were able to learn how Charles Joseph La Trobe, Victoria's first Governor, and his family lived in early Melbourne. They were also able to hear of La Trobe the adventurous administrator, who made many excursions on horseback around the colony, including three attempts through difficult terrain to discover the site for a much needed lighthouse at Cape Otway. |
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Tuesday – 12 April 2016 La Trobe’s First Immigrants - the 1839 Voyage of the David Clark: 6.30-8pm Friends of La Trobe’s Cottage Annual Lecture. Speaker: Irene Kearsey, La Trobe Society member, Friends volunteer and dedicated historian. Venue: Domain House (next door to La Trobe’s Cottage), Dallas Brooks Drive, Melbourne 3004. (La Trobe Society event) |
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Thurday –17 March 2016 Heritage at your Touch! La Trobe’s Birthday Celebration: 6.30 - 8.30pm Guest speaker Martin Green, Learning Manager, National Trust of Australia (Victoria), talked about Heritage at Your Touch! La Trobe's Cottage in 3D. Then, Public Record Office Victoria’s La Trobe’s Incoming Correspondence online was launched. Venue: Rooftop, Tonic House, 386 Flinders Lane, Melbourne. (La Trobe Society event) |
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Tuesday – 26 January 2016
Australia Day at La Trobe’s Cottage: Cottage open 1 – 4pm Visitors were able to join in the celebration of Australia Day in the Domain with guided tours of the Cottage, flag raising ceremonies and rifle salutes. It was Open Day at nearby Government House so they were able to visit the homes of both the first and current Victorian Governors. |
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Monday – 14 December 2015
Christmas Drinks: 5 – 7.30 pm Members and Friends were invited to Christmas Drinks in a members’ home in East Melbourne. There was also an opportunity to visit the home (next door) of J J Clark, architect of the Old Treasury Building in 1858. (La Trobe Society event) |
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Sunday – 6 December 2015
Service to Mark the Anniversary of the Death of C J La Trobe: 11am Charles Joseph La Trobe was remembered at a service at St Peter’s Eastern Hill, coinciding with a memorial service at St Michael the Archangel, Litlington, Sussex, where he is buried. The Vicar of St Peter’s, Rev Dr Hugh Kempster, invited La Trobe Society members and their friends to the service, followed by refreshments. Address: 15 Gisborne Street, Melbourne. |
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Wednesday – 25 November 2015
End of Year Reception: 6 – 8pm Mr Murray Thompson MP was our host and spoke on ‘La Trobe: A Spring Street Perspective’. Venue: Federation Room, Parliament House, Spring Street, Melbourne. (La Trobe Society event) |
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Saturday – 7 November 2015 Mini Book Sale: new and used books related to La Trobe: 2 – 4pm An opportunity to purchase at fantastic prices a range of books and other items related to Charles Joseph La Trobe. Titles included the beautiful editions of his Australian Notes and Landscapes and Sketches, biographies, editions of diaries and letters, many rare titles by a variety of authors, as well as prints of La Trobe’s landscapes and CDs of his father’s piano sonatas. Venue: Domain House, Dallas Brooks Drive, Melbourne (near La Trobe’s Cottage). (La Trobe Society event) |
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Sunday – 18 & 25 October 2015 History Week at La Trobe’s Cottage: Cottage open 2 – 4pm Tours focused on Charles Joseph La Trobe as the pioneering administrator in Victoria’s foundation and also provided an insight into family life at his ‘Jolimont’ estate. Click here to visit the History Week website |
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Sunday – 4 October 2015
Spring Opening at La Trobe’s Cottage: 2 – 4pm A special spring opening of La Trobe’s Cottage, celebrating the 176th anniversary of the arrival of Charles Joseph La Trobe, Victoria’s first Governor, and his family in early Melbourne. Visitors were able to see how the 1840s-50s garden has developed and enjoy the glories of spring. |
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Wednesday – 9 September 2015
Bishopscourt Visit: 6 – 8pm Bishopscourt, the official residence of the Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne, was open to members of the La Trobe Society on this special occasion, when our fellow member, Archbishop Philip Freier, Primate of Australia, spoke to us about this historic building completed in 1853 and sketched by Charles Joseph La Trobe. Venue: 120 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne. (La Trobe Society event) |
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Sunday – 30 August 2015
Melbourne Day: 10am- 12pm A celebration of the 180th anniversary of the founding of Melbourne in 1835. Official flag raising ceremony, followed by live entertainment and a rifle volley by the Colonial Re-enactment Society of Australia and the 40th Regiment of Foot. Venue: Enterprize Park, near the corner of Flinders and William Streets. Click here to visit the Melbourne Day website |
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Wednesday – 5 August 2015
La Trobe Society Annual General Meeting and Dinner: 6.30pm The guest speaker was Dr Sylvia Whitmore, historian and La Trobe Society member, who spoke about ‘La Trobe in Mexico’. Venue: Lyceum Club, Ridgway Place, Melbourne. (La Trobe Society event) |
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Saturday – 18 July 2015
Separation Anniversary Dinner and La Trobe Lecture: 7pm Guest speaker at the Victoria Day Council’s 164th Separation Anniversary dinner and La Trobe lecture was Professor David Penington AC, 2014 Victorian of the Year. Venue: Morgans at 401, 401 Collins Street, Melbourne. Visit the Victoria Day Council website www.victoriaday.org.au |
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Friday – 17 July 2015 Medicine in Melbourne in the time of La Trobe: 6.30 – 8.30pm An illustrated lecture by Dr Jonathan Burdon, AM, MD, FRACP, FCCP, FACLM, FAICD, Consultant Respiratory Physician, Co-Convenor Melbourne Rare Book Week, and La Trobe Society member. Venue: Morgans at 401, 401 Collins Street, Melbourne. (Presented by The La Trobe Society for Melbourne Rare Book Week 2015 and generously sponsored by Mr Gary Morgan, Executive Chairman, Roy Morgan Research.) |
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Wednesday – 1 July 2015
Victoria Day: 10.30am – 12pm Victoria Day Council celebration of the 164th anniversary of the Separation of the Port Phillip District from New South Wales. Victorian flag raising ceremony and the re-enactment of Lieutenant-Governor La Trobe's reading of the proclamation, followed by the presentation of the Victoria Day Awards. Venue: Melbourne Town Hall. Visit the Victoria Day Council website www.victoriaday.org.au |
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Tuesday – 16 June 2015 C J La Trobe Society/ RHSV A G L Shaw Lecture: 6.30 – 8pm ‘Charles Joseph La Trobe and the Regulation of Everyday Life: Implementing the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act’ was the topic of Dr Madonna Grehan, Historian and 2014 La Trobe Society Fellow at the State Library of Victoria. Venue: Royal Historical Society of Victoria, Cnr William and A’Beckett Streets, Melbourne. Podcast (scroll to June 2015) (La Trobe Society event) |
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Tuesday – 5 May 2015 Friends of La Trobe’s Cottage Annual Lecture: 6 – 8pm ‘Passion for Plants’ was the topic of Professor Tim Entwisle, Director and Chief Executive of the Royal Botanic Gardens, who is an internationally recognised plant scientist with a broad interest in horticulture and biodiversity. Venue: Mueller Hall, The Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens, Birdwood Avenue, Melbourne. |
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Sunday – 19 and 26 April 2015 Australian Heritage Festival at La Trobe’s Cottage: open 1 – 4pm Visitors were able to learn how Charles Joseph La Trobe, Victoria's first Governor, and his family lived in early Melbourne. They wwere also able to hear of La Trobe the visionary administrator, who was called upon to govern chaos on a huge scale following the discovery of gold in Victoria. |
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Sunday - 22 March 2015
Café Là (Trobe) – La Trobe’s Birthday Evening Picnic: 5.30 – 7.30pm Opportunity to enjoy the award-winning garden at La Trobe’s Cottage in a relaxed atmosphere, and to be present at garden personality Jane Edmanson’s unveiling of the La Trobe Society commissioned painting of the garden by talented artist Jo Reitze. Jane and Jo jointly planted a Camellia japonica ‘Wellbankii’, and a new series of greetings cards was launched. A ceremonial cutting of a birthday cake and champagne in celebration of La Trobe’s 214th birthday followed next door at Domain House. (La Trobe Society event) |
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Sunday - 1 March 2015 A Soirée with Governor Charles La Trobe and Captain Foster Fyans: 5.30 - 8pm Entertainment by flautist Howlin’ Wind (Andy Richardson), chicken and champagne, etc. Venue: ‘Oak Hill’, 110 Creswell Road, Marcus Hill, 3222. All proceeds to the Queenscliffe Historical Museum La Trobe Bronze Bust Memorial Appeal. |
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Monday - 26 January 2015
Australia Day at La Trobe’s Cottage: Cottage open 1 – 4pm Visitors joined in the celebration of Australia Day in the Domain with guided tours of the Cottage, flag raising ceremonies and rifle salutes. It was Open Day at nearby Government House so they were able to view the homes of both the first and current Victorian Governors. Click here to visit the Australia Day website. |
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