Thursday – 1 August 2024, 6.30pm Wattle and Queen: The Alexandra Club, a club like none other – address by Loreen Chambers, historian and former vice-chair of the La Trobe Society. Venue: Alexandra Club, 81 Collins Street, Melbourne. Cost: $120 per person. (La Trobe Society event – guests are welcome)
Past events - 2024
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Open House Melbourne at La Trobe’s Cottage
Sunday – 28 July 2018, 10–3pm (last tour 2.30pm) Visitors to were be able to gain an insight into the role played by prefabricated housing for the early settlers in Melbourne, and of family life at the humble home of Charles Joseph La Trobe, Victoria’s first Governor.
Rare Book Week Lecture
Thursday – 18 July, 6.30pm. Noted Donors and Donations to the Melbourne Public Library Collections – by Shane Carmody, Historian and former Director State Library Victoria. Venue: Tonic House, 386 Flinders Lane, Melbourne. Refreshments. No charge. (La Trobe Society event, sponsored by Roy Morgan Research and Tonic House)
Joint La Trobe Society/ RHSV AGL Shaw Lecture
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. […]
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 were 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 two […]