Melbourne celebrates Victory in the Pacific Day
Social life & customs, Such was life, War:
Melbourne has likely never seen such an outbreak of spontaneous rejoicing and mass celebration, as it did on Victory in the Pacific Day, August 15 1945.
Post Tagged with: "Victoria"
Joan Lindsay’s mysterious ‘Picnic at Hanging Rock’
Ask a librarian, Victorian history:
‘Everyone agreed the day was just right for the picnic to Hanging Rock…’
Education in Colonial Victoria: a new collection for Trove
By Paul Dee, Senior Librarian Victorian and Australian Collections Trove is the National Library’s online portal to more than 6 billion artefacts, curiosities and stories from Australia’s cultural, community and research institutions.… Read More ›
Time travelling with Sands & McDougall
Buildings & streets, People & professions, Such was life:
Bell hangers and nightmen, leech merchants and lightermen; these are just some of the nineteenth century characters you may find lurking within the pages of a Sands & McDougall directory.
Sybil Craig: a life in pictures
Arts & literature, Such was life:
Melbourne artist Sybil Craig became one of the first women war artists in Australia. The Library holds Sybil’s archive which contains over 1700 photographs and more than 280 works on paper, many of which are now online.
Index to Victorian births, deaths and marriages updated
Family matters, Research tips & tricks, Websites:
We have some great news for family historians.
The Index to Victorian births, deaths and marriages has been updated and you can now search for marriages up to 1950! That’s 8 years of additional marriages!
The Mallee
Cities & towns, Such was life:
‘I can readily imagine why most people speak of this part of the country with a certain dread for there is actually no grass and no water to be found.’
Law making and breaking in colonial Victoria
People & professions, Social life & customs, Such was life:
Criminals, crime and justice in colonial Victoria!
The conscience of colonial society
Shortly it will be the 200th anniversary of Samuel Thomas Gill’s birth in Somerset in England. STG, as he was universally known, died unrecognised on the steps of the GPO in Melbourne in 1880.
