Wednesday – 20 August 2025, 6pm Martha Lonsdale: Episodes in a Life, by member Lorraine Finlay. Venue: The Alexandra Club, 81 Collins Street, Melbourne. Dress: Lounge suit /Cocktail attire. (La Trobe Society event – guests welcome)
Past events - 2025
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Open House Melbourne at La Trobe’s Cottage
Sunday – 27 July 2025, 11am–4pm (last tour 3.30pm) Visitors were 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. Open House Melbourne website
Melbourne Rare Book Week La Trobe Society Lecture 2025
Thursday – 24 July 2025, 6.30 – 8.30 pm Doctors in Melbourne in the Time of La Trobe, by Dr Jonathan Burdon AM MD FRACP. In this illustrated lecture historian Jonathan Burdon delved into the early medical practitioners in Melbourne and the Port Phillip District of New South Wales (nowVictoria) : who they were, where […]
Friends of La Trobe’s Cottage Reception
Monday – 19 May 2025, 5.30 – 7.00pm A reception to meet Collette Brennan, the recently appointed Chief Executive Officer of the National Trust of Australia (Victoria). Ms Brennan was formerly CEO and Artistic Director of the Abbotsford Convent, and was the founding Chair of the Sunshine Coast Arts Advisory Board. She is currently a […]
Joint La Trobe Society/ RHSV AGL Shaw Lecture 2025
Tuesday – 15 April 2025, 5.30–7.30pm La Trobe, Red Coats and the Mounted Police: Their Presence in the Port Phillip District until 1850, by Dr Andrew Kilsby, La Trobe Society Fellow 2024-25, graduate of the Royal Military College Duntroon and independent historian with a particular interest in military, business and biographical history, from colonial times […]
La Trobe’s Birthday Celebration
Sunday – 23 March 2025, 4.30–6.00 pm From India to Jolimont, a talk by Tim Gatehouse, researcher into Victoria’s colonial history, who provided new insights on some of the Cottage Furniture. Sparkling wine and birthday cake was served to celebrate Charles Joseph La Trobe’s 224th birthday. Venue: La Trobe’s Cottage, Cnr Birdwood Avenue & Dallas […]