Tuesday – 12 July 2022, 5.30-7.30pm Victoria’s Earliest Potteries. Guest Speaker Gregory Hill, who is recognised as the leading authority on Australian Colonial Pottery and Australian Art Pottery. His book, Victoria’s Earliest Potteries, featured convict era potters and Victoria’s earliest pottery which was close to La Trobe’s Jolimont estate. A small exhibition will accompany the […]
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La Trobe Society Annual General Meeting and Dinner
Wednesday – 2 August 2022, 6.30pm Mary Mitchell: A Port Phillip Virago. Speaker: Susan Priestley, historian and committee member of the Society and member of its editorial team. This presentation will offer some glimpses of impolite society in early Melbourne. Venue – Melbourne Savage Club, 12 Bank Place, Melbourne. Cost: $95 per person. Enquiries: secretary@latrobesociety.org.au, or phone […]
Friends of La Trobe’s Cottage Annual Lecture
Wednesday – 14 September, 5.30-7.30pm The Lady of St Kilda: a link between the Outer Hebrides and the Antipodes. Speaker John Botham, Chair of Friends of La Trobe’s Cottage and Society webmaster. This illustrated talk explains how the Schooner Lady of St Kilda connected La Trobe’s naming of St Kilda with the remote Scottish island […]
Open Day at La Trobe’s Cottage
Sunday – October 2022 to April 2023, 1 – 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 […]
Paintings of Early Melbourne
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. Proof of double vaccination will be required. Cost: $8 adults. Bookings Images