Sir Robert Menzies was known for his 'The Forgotten People" speeches, credited with helping the Liberals return to power. The spe...

Victorian Collections is a central portal to the cultural treasures held by museums and galleries distributed across Victoria. Culture Vict...

Victoria once had more than one thousand Mechanics' Institutes scattered across the state. In many cases Institute halls were the firs...

This blog reached a milestone overnight, when it ticked over one hundred thousand visits. From rather humble beginnings back in January 2...

The Wonnangatta murders occurred in late 1917 and in 1918, in the remote Wonnangatta Valley in the High Country in Victoria. The victims we...

The Pleasant Creek Hospital site has finally been leased. New owner Keenan Quinsee intends to open some of the buildings for Aradale-style ...

Week 4 - "Power without glory" by Frank Hardy.  Hardy's novel of the power machinations in Victorian politics. John West r...

Week 3 -  Is Nancy Cato's All the Rivers Run - a saga which spanned eight decades and four generations. Orphaned after a shipwreck ...

Week 2 - “Careful he might hear you” - Sumner Locke Elliott wrote this haunting tale about PS and his aunts, custody battles, secrets. P...