Sunday – 10 December 2023, 11am La Trobe Sunday Service. Charles Joseph La Trobe was remembered on this day. The Vicar of St Peter’s, Rev’d Dr Michael Bowie, invited La Trobe Society members and friends to the special service. Venue: St Peter’s Eastern Hill, 15 Gisborne Street, Melbourne. Refreshments. No charge. All welcome.
Past events - 2023
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Christmas Cocktails
Friday – 8 December 2023, 6.30 – 8.30pm Notable Artefacts at the Savage Club, by Shane Carmody. A brief view of the history of the Melbourne Savage Club, a private Australian gentlemen’s club founded in 1894 and named after the poet, Richard Savage. Bohemian in spirit, the club brings together literary men, and those sympathising […]
La Trobe Society History Month Lecture
Tuesday – 24 October 2023, 5.30 – 7.30pm ‘Improving, Refining, and Elevating’: the Melbourne Public Library Art Treasures Exhibition 1869, by John Botham, Chair of the Friends of La Trobe’s Cottage. The talk rediscovered the old Great Hall of the Melbourne Public Library and its spectacular decoration by Edward La Trobe Bateman. The Art Treasures […]
Garden Day at La Trobe’s Cottage
Sunday – 1 October 2023, 1 – 4pm Garden Day at La Trobe’s Cottage. Spring Opening of the charming garden, with an emphasis on the heritage plants that La Trobe favoured. Tours of the garden scheduled for 1.15, 2.15 and 3.15pm; in addition to tours of the house throughout the afternoon (last house tour 3.30pm). […]
La Trobe Family Portraits: Special Viewing – Postponed
Sunday – 24 September 2023, 3.30 – 5pm – POSTPONED – conservation work delayed. La Trobe Family Portraits: Special viewing of important portraits of Charles Joseph’s father Christian Ignatius and grandfather Benjamin La Trobe on display after extensive conservation. Venue: La Trobe’s Cottage, Cnr. Birdwood Avenue & Dallas Brooks Drive, The Domain, Melbourne. Enquiries to secretary@latrobesociety.org.au, […]
La Trobe Society Annual General Meeting and Dinner
Thursday – 17 August 2023, 6.30pm Education for Girls in the La Trobe Era, by Dr Deborah Towns OAM, sociologist, historian and author, Honorary Fellow, Department of Management and Marketing, University of Melbourne. Venue: Alexandra Club, 81 Collins Street, Melbourne. Cost: $90 per person. (La Trobe Society event – guests welcome)
Rare Book Week Lecture
Friday – 21 July 2023, 6 – 8.30 pm The Swordsman’s Tale, Revisited – by Dr Andrew Lemon AM FRHSV. The extraordinary story of the very first commercial book published by Clarson, Shallard and Co. (Melbourne, 1859), and the mystery surrounding Robert Meikle’s The Fencer’s Manual. Venue: Tonic House, 386 Flinders Lane, Melbourne. Refreshments. No […]
Friends of La Trobe’s Cottage Annual Lecture
Tuesday – 2 May 2023, 5.30–7.30pm The Golden Age: La Trobe’s Journey Home, by John Botham, Chair of the Friends of La Trobe’s Cottage. The illustrated talk described La Trobe’s journey home to England on the paddle steamer Golden Age on the first commercial passage across the Pacific in 1854. […]
Joint La Trobe Society/ RHSV AGL Shaw Lecture
Tuesday – 18 April 2023, 5.30–7.00pm Law and Order Under La Trobe: The First Prisons of Port Phillip, by Dr Ashleigh Green, the 2022 La Trobe Society Fellow at State Library Victoria, tutor in classics and archaeology at the University of Melbourne and author of the book Birds in Roman Life and Myth..Venue: Royal Historical […]
La Trobe’s Birthday Celebration
Sunday – 19 March 2023, 4.30–6.30 pm The Cottage Samplers, a talk by Catherine Gay, PhD candidate, University of Melbourne, and National Trust volunteer guide. Our speaker enlightened us on how the samplers we have on display in La Trobe’s Cottage, and the reproduction of Rose Pellet’s beautiful sampler, reflect the importance placed on developing […]