Supporters of the HCV - End of Year Event 2025

Dec

Thursday, December 11, 2025 at 06:00 PM

Location

Royal Historical Society of Victoria

Event contact

Stephanie Holt

The HCV mark another year of history advocacy and engagement with the past with our 2025 end of year celebration! This is also a change to thank those who support our work and mission.

Drinks and nibbles will be provided, with time for mingling and conversation before and after our special featured discussion.

Please note this event is free for Friends of the HCV. If you would like to join the Friends of the HCV and come as our guest, you can sign up for $30 here: https://www.historycouncilvic.org.au/friends

In discussion: Naomi Wolfe and Nell Musgrove on the Yoorrook Justice Commission

The event includes special discussion between Naomi Wolfe & Nell Musgrove (ACU) about the Yoorrook Justice Commission, Victoria and Australia’s first formal truth-telling inquiry into historic and ongoing injustices perpetuated against First Peoples through colonisation. The talk will be followed by drinks, nibbles and conversation.

Naomi Wolfe is a Trawlwoolway Aboriginal woman with Jewish German and Irish heritage who lives and works on Wurundjeri country (Melbourne, Australia). She is an academic at Australian Catholic University where she teaches Indigenous and ancient histories.

Nell Musgrove is an historian at the Australian Catholic University with a particular interest in the field of child welfare history and carceral institutions. Nell also serves on the Board of the HCV.

When: Thursday 11 December, 6pm

Where: Royal Historical Society of Victoria, 239 A'Beckett Street Melbourne

Posted by on November 14, 2025

Will you come?

$20.00 General public (full)

$10.00 General public (concession) Students, Health Care Card holders

About

The History Council of Victoria Incorporated (HCV) is the peak body for history in the Australian state of Victoria. Its vision is to connect Victorians with history and to inspire engagement with the past, their identity and the world today. The HCV champions the work of historians and the value of history. It recognises that history can be written about any place, any person, any period. The HCV advocates why history matters.

Events

Our calendar lists all upcoming public events arranged by the History Council of Victoria (HCV), plus events in Victoria, Australia, that are added by our Friends and Members.

If you are organising an event that relates to History, we encourage you to publicise it on our website.

Advocacy

As the peak body for history in Victoria, the History Council makes submissions on current issues. In doing this, the HCV Board is guided by its Advocacy Policy and by the Value of History, a statement developed co-operatively by the HCV and the History Councils of New South Wales, South Australia and Western Australia.

Prizes

Since 2015, the HCV has been pleased to sponsor the Years 9 and 10 category of the Historical Fiction Competition organised by the History Teachers' Association of Victoria.

Support

Ways to support us:

Subscribe to our free newsletter: https://www.historycouncilvic.org.au/subscribe
Endorse the Value of History statement: https://www.historycouncilvic.org.au/endorse
Find us on socials: Twitter / Facebook / YouTube

Summary

The HCV was formed as an advisory body in 2001 and incorporated in 2003. It comprises representatives from cultural and educational institutions and heritage bodies; history teachers and curriculum advisors; academic and professional historians; and local, Indigenous, community and specialist history organisations.

As the peak body for history, the HCV has both ‘outward-looking’ roles (including advocacy and representation to government and the wider community, consultation, community education, and networking with allied interest groups) and ‘inward-looking’ roles (including member support, information dissemination, and networking between members).

Credits

The History Council of Victoria acknowledges the State Library of Victoria and the Public Record Office Victoria for supply of the archival images that appear on this website.

We acknowledge the National Film and Sound Archive for the right to use of the video footage on the home page, titled "Melbourne: Life in Australia (1966)".

Image credits

Italian sailors on ship at Port Melbourne 1938, Argus Newspaper Collection of Photographs, State Library of Victoria
Chinese procession in Collins near Elizabeth Street 1901, Harvie & Sutcliffe, photographers, State Library of Victoria
People’s homes, Aboriginal station Coranderrk 1878, Fred Kruger Photographer, State Library of Victoria
Chinese nurses at Children’s Hospital under scholarship 1947, Argus Newspaper Collection of Photographs, State Library of Victoria
Ladies physical culture class VRI Melbourne c1931, Public Record Office Victoria VPRS 12903/P0001, 011/02
Melbourne Cup, Derby and Oaks Day, Flemington Racecourse 1936, Public Record Office Victoria VPRS 12903/P0001/4802, 372/30
Flinders Street viaduct at foot of Market Street with advertisement for McRobertson’s Chocolate on bridge, Public Record Office Victoria VPRS 12800/P0003, ADV 1342