Events

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. Refreshments. Venue: Royal Historical Society of […]

Wednesday – 3 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. Enquiries: secretary@latrobesociety.org.au, or phone 0412 517 061. Pictured: The Eagle Tavern and Theatre Royal (formerly […]

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 […]

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 […]

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