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)
Past events - 2024
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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 […]