Jenny provides a history of tanning before examining the industry in Chester and Warrington through the eyes of her ancestors, the Guest family.

Dr McCalman’s latest publication examines the lives of former convicts who arrived as early settlers into colonial Victoria.

Terry Young provides and overview of Chinese Australian Family History of Victoria (CAFHOV) CEDT Index website, how to search it and the visualisations created using the Index…

Sophie Couchman introduces the CAFHOV project which has indexed the Victorian CEDT Index. She provides an explanation of the Index and shares some of the stories of the people…

Dr Sagazio discusses the Old Melbourne Cemetery and the movement and reinterment of graves due to the expansion of the Queen Victoria Market.

In this presentation Dr Broome discusses the interactions between the Indigenous inhabitants, who had been in Australia for upward of 60 thousand years, and the early European…

Information for website: The Royal Historical Society of Victoria (RHSV) has collected and maintained an ‘Historical Register of Persons who arrived, or were born in Victoria…