Are you a fan too?
Without the crowd, it would be just another game of footy.
Such was life
Picture this: Black Rock
Cities & towns, Such was life:
Black Rock, in Melbourne’s bayside east, was named after Charles Hoston Edben’s Black Rock house which, in turn, was named from Black Rock, Dublin.(1)
Local History Grant Program applications open
Local history funding sources, Such was life:
Applications for the 2013-2014 Local History Grants Program are now open. This program provides grants of up to $15,000 to community organisations to support the cost of projects that preserve, record… Read More ›
Love and larceny at the Melbourne Hospital
People & professions, Such was life:
The winter of 1849 was an exciting time at the Melbourne Hospital as love blossomed between the resident apothecary and matron.
Tango in Melbourne
Social life & customs, Such was life:
‘When an Argentinean dance called the tango arrived in Melbourne in 1913, the wowsers were shocked by dancers who danced cheek-to-cheek and whose legs and arms pressed against each other… Read More ›
Pioneer women of Victoria
Are you researching: women in Victoria? the lives of Victorian settlers? Aboriginal/settler interactions? women’s experiences of migration?
Clunes – the golden town
Cities & towns, Such was life:
Sitting in a steep valley surrounded by extinct volcanoes lies Clunes, a historic gold mining town located in the central goldfields region of Victoria, north of Ballarat. The Djadja Wurrung… Read More ›
Bella Guerin: first female university graduate in Australia
People & professions, Such was life:
Julia Margaret Guerin, known as Bella Guerin, became the first woman to graduate from a university in Australia, when she graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1883.
Memories of the Great Depression
Social life & customs, Such was life:
An interesting and amusing memoir of a Melbourne boy growing up during the Depression is the book The Palace of Signs: memories of hard times and high times in the… Read More ›
Albert Purchas: architect, soldier, inventor
People & professions, Such was life:
A common question we get asked at the Library is where can I find information about a particular person?
