The Royal Historical Society of Victoria

Royal Historical Society of Victoria, 239A’Beckett Street, Melbourne.

The Royal Historical Society of Victoria ( RHSV ) was formed in 1909.

Their Collections include:

• The Pioneer Register, an historical register that was set up after survey letters were written to find out about people coming to Australia. The Society got a great response. Respondents sometimes told about children who didn’t come and what their history has been.
• A huge collection of pamphlets for which the contents are Indexed online.
• Also books, pictures, manuscripts, etc.
• Their Manuscript Collection is wonderful.
• Lodge Books are a good source of information.
• All the History Groups’ Newsletters are there – a gold mine of information.
• The Government Gazettes are useful in showing who bought property.
• A huge book containing shipping newspaper cuttings is indexed online.

The “Town and Country” newspaper can be helpful for obituaries that can’t be found elsewhere.

(Notes propres by Marilla James at a visit by PPPG members to the Society in 2013)