This book contains a collection of poems written by English poet, Robert Browning, between 1833-1868. Robert Browning was an English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him high among the Victorian poets. He was noted for irony, characterisation, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings and challenging vocabulary and syntax. Ruyton Girls' School has a long tradition of awarding prizes to students at annual "Speech Night" events. Speech Night at Ruyton is an extraordinary occasion. It is a time when we gather to celebrate both the year just lived and the contribution of our Year 12 girls to the life of our School. It is a night of stirring student speeches, acknowledgement of student endeavour and excellence and awe-inspiring performances by School choirs and ensembles. The Dawn Roach Memorial Prize is awarded for contribution to the sporting life of the school, and is awarded under a points system for participation. Dawn Roach was a former student at Ruyton Girls' School from 1937 until her sudden passing in 1938.The record has strong historic significance as it was awarded to a former notable student, Helen Gordon (maiden name Cole). Helen started at Little Ruyton in Prep 1940 and finished Year 12 in 1952 as School Captain, Bromby Captain, Form Captain for Matric, Tennis Captain, Hockey Captain, Swimming Vice Captain, and an award for Best All-Round Girl. She also played baseball for Victoria. After finishing school, Helen went on to graduate from the University of Melbourne as a physiotherapist in 1956. Her first position at age 19 involved setting up clinics with the Victorian Health Department Poliomyelitis Rural division. Helen’s strong ties to Ruyton continued when she held the position of President of the Old Ruytonians’ Association from the start of 1966 to the end of 1967. In 2019, Helen received an Order of Australia Medal for service to community health as a physiotherapist. She was also the recipient of the 2022 Victorian Senior Achiever Award at Parliament House. Helen passed away in July 2023 at age 88. The record's significance is further enhanced by its strong provenance, having been produced by Ruyton Girls' School and donated to the Archives by a familial connection.Navy leather hardcover bound book with gold detailing on front cover and spine. 698 pages.Front Cover: R / RECTE ET FIDE LITER / RUYTON / Spine: THE / POETICAL / WORKS OF / R.BROWNING / OXFORD / Inside Cover: R / RECTE ET FIDE LITER / RUYTON / PRIZE / AWARDED TO / Helen Cole / FOR / Studies and James / Form VI / H. Daniell. / December 11 1951 / Dawne Roach Memorial Prize /ruyton girls' school, school, students, prize, speech night, poetry, lord tennyson, queen victoria, senior school, high school, ruyton, old ruytonians' association

Colin George ODLUM No VX45898 enlisted In the 2nd AIF on 1.7.1940 age 22 years. Colin was then posted to the 2/23rd Bn on 16.10.1940 at Bonegilla, embarked on 16.11.40 for the Middle East and disembarked on 17.12.1940. He was then graded group 2 Signaller. He went through the siege of Tobruk. Colin was KIA on 12.7.1942 at El Alamein. He is listed as buried 13.7.1942 grave No 11 map ref El Alamein 1/50000 87703021. He was required later at El Alamein cemetery grave 10, plot 8 row H 4.12.1942. As per the diary in case of his death he allotted any personnel affects to Miss Bettie Bird, refer 136.2P. The original diary was held by William (Billy) Bird, Betties brother, refer 1601. Billy and Colin rode bikes together. Also refer 128.2, 135.2, 137.3PPhotocopy of an extensive 56 page diary written by Colin ODLUM.Private Odlum C.G VX45898 HQ Coy 2/23 Batt AIF Abroad, Age 24, A2, Mdocuments, diaries, copies, military history

“Letters to ILBA”, compiled and edited by Patricia Ibbotson/Mowat from original letters/postcards held by the family history custodian Peter Roberts Kerang.Book, spiral bound with black metal, cover clear plastic over the title page, back is black cardboard, title page is black print and illustrated in watercolour painting titled “Far away thoughts” by Harry Avery 467”, 123 pages plain white, illustrated in B & W and colour photographs and postcards.On page 3 hand written in black pen,”Donated to the Bendigo RSL Military Museum with compliments from Peter J Roberts/and Patricia Ibbotson (née Mowat) 1st Nov 2019”letters, history ww1, books

Rev Robert Hodgson: His father was Robert Hodgson Snr, of Congleton, and Mildred (née Porteus) in early 1773. He was baptised on 22 September 1773 at St Peter's Church, Congleton. Hodgson was a close relative (by marriage on his father's side and by blood on his mother's side) of Beilby Porteus, Bishop of London of whom Hodgson wrote a biography of Porteus. On his mother's side, he was a descendant of Augustine Warner Jnr., who presided as the Speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses during the time of Bacon's Rebellion (Warner served before the Rebellion in 1676, and after the Rebellion in 1677.) Hodgson was educated at Macclesfield School and Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he graduated with a BA as 14th Wrangler in 1795. He was appointed rector of St George's, Hanover Square for over forty years, from 1803 until his death in 1844. Bishop Beilby Porteus: Beilby Porteus 8 May 1731 – 13 May 1809), successively Bishop of Chester and London was a Church of England reformer and a leading abolitionist in England. He was the first Anglican in a position of authority to seriously challenge the Church's position on slavery. Porteus was born in York on 8 May 1731, the youngest of the 19 children of Elizabeth Jennings and Robert Porteus ( 1758/9), a planter. Although the family was of Scottish ancestry, his parents were Virginian planters who had returned to England in 1720 as a result of the economic difficulties in the province and for the sake of his father's health. Educated at York and Ripon Grammar School, he was a classics scholar at Christ's College, Cambridge, becoming a fellow in 1752. In 1759 he won the Seatonian Prize for his poem Death: A Poetical Essay, a work for which he is still remembered. He was ordained as a priest in 1757, and in 1762 was appointed as domestic chaplain to Thomas Secker, Archbishop of Canterbury, acting as his assistant at Lambeth Palace for six years. It was during these years that it is thought he became more aware of the conditions of the enslaved Africans in the American colonies and the British West Indies. He corresponded with clergy and missionaries, receiving reports on the appalling conditions facing the slaves from Rev James Ramsay in the West Indies and from Granville Sharp, the English lawyer who had supported the cases of freed slaves in England. In 1769 Beilby Porteus was appointed as chaplain to King George III. He was also Rector of Lambeth (a living shared between the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Crown) from 1767 to 1777, and later Master of St Cross, Winchester (1776–77). He was concerned about trends within the Church of England towards what he regarded as the watering-down of the truth of Scripture and stood for doctrinal purity. He was, however, happy to work with Methodists and dissenters and recognised their major contributions in evangelism and education. In 1776, Porteus was nominated as Bishop of Chester, taking up the appointment in 1777. He was Renowned as a scholar and a popular preacher, it was in 1783 that the young bishop was to first come to national attention by preaching his most famous and influential sermon. In 1787, Porteus was translated to the bishopric of London on the advice of Prime Minister William Pitt, a position he held until his death in 1809. As is customary, he was also appointed to the Privy Council, and Dean of the Chapel Royal. In 1788, he supported Sir William Dolben's Slave Trade Bill from the bench of bishops, and over the next quarter-century, he became the leading advocate within the Church of England for the abolition of slavery, lending support to such men as Wilberforce, Granville Sharp, Henry Thornton, and Zachary Macaulay to secure the eventual passage of the Slave Trade Act in 1807.Beilby Porteus was one of the most significant, albeit under-rated church figures of the 18th century. His sermons continued to be read by many, and his legacy as a foremost abolitionist was such that his name was almost as well known in the early 19th century as those of Wilberforce and Thomas Clarkson but 100 years later he had become one of the 'forgotten abolitionists', and today his role has largely been ignored and his name has been consigned to the footnotes of history. His primary claim to fame in the 21st century is for his poem on Death and, possibly unfairly, as the supposed prototype for the pompous Mr. Collins in Jane Austen's novel ”Pride and Prejudice”. But, ironically, Porteus' most lasting contribution was one for which he is little-known, the Sunday Observance Act of 1781 (a response to what he saw as the moral decay of England), which legislated how the public were allowed to spend their recreation time at weekends these laws continued for the following 200 years until the passing of the Sunday Trading Act of 1994.Book of sermons cover is brown with gold border and decoration Beilby Porteus (or Porteous; 8 May 1731 – 13 May 1809), successively Bishop of Chester and of London, was a Church of England reformer and a leading abolitionist in England. He was the first Anglican in a position of authority to seriously challenge the Church's position on slavery. The Works of The Right Reverend Beilby Porteus Vol 2” . Spine has “Porteus’ Works, Vol. II Sermons”. The works of the Right Reverend Beilby Porteus, D.D., late Bishop of London; with his life, by the Rev. Robert Hodgson, A.M.F.R.S. and one of the Chaplains in Ordinary to His Majesty. A New Edition in Six Volumes. Vol. II – Sermons. Published in 1811 for T. Cadell and W., Davies, in The Strand, London. Printed by G. Sidney, Northumberland-street. flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked coast, flagstaff hill maritime museum, maritime museum, shipwreck coast, flagstaff hill maritime village, great ocean road, right reverend beilby porteous, sermons, london reverend

Book written by Lurline and Arthur Knee. The story of a WW2 internment camp at Tatura Victoria.White cardboard back and front joined with white ring binder. 101 pagesww2 internment camps, tatura internment camp, lurline knee, arthur knee, the nazi camp

Kindly scanned from Ringwood Branch archival collectionTranscript (kindly completed by Ken Briscoe using ChatGPT) RINGWOOD BRANCH COUNTRY WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION INC. February 13, 1946 in the Ringwood Town Hall, the Mayoress, Mrs. H.E. Parker, called the meeting and Ringwood Branch Country Women's Association was formed, and would be in the Yarra Valley Group. Speaker for the day was Mrs. Wray, Group President, Yarra Valley Group. Office bearers elected were: • Mrs. Greenshields (President) • Mrs. Shields (Secretary) • Mrs. Roberts (Treasurer) At the inaugural meeting, 93 ladies joined, and the first general meeting of the Ringwood Branch was held March 7, 1946, and by the end of August the membership grew to 160. In 1946 the joining fee was 4/- and you never attended a meeting unless you wore hat and gloves. The first year, meetings were held in the main Town Hall, then they were transferred to the small hall, which had a creche next door, at the baby health centre, where mothers could leave their little ones, while mum enjoyed the meetings, demonstrations or entertainment. The Branch had a very good Choir, conducted by Mrs. Dorrie Davidson, also a very talented theatrical group. Each birthday they put on excellent stage shows, some beautiful costumes being hired from well-known Melbourne theatrical company. The 1956 Olympic stage show had some well-trained, but out of form, athletes. Highlight of the year was the Annual Ball and two Debutante Balls. New branches were formed in the district, Everard, East Ringwood, Heathmont, South Warrandyte. There was also, Ringwood Younger set, a night branch (later years was renamed Marana). It was then that our membership dropped. As more and more branches were started in the district, Ringwood was then allocated to the newly formed Maroondah Highway Group. Craft classes and demonstrations were of a high standard, with some interesting things being made such as millinery, dressmaking, pottery, etc. In 1960 when Ringwood was made a City, a C.W.A. float was entered in the procession, this was a mammoth task, as hundreds of flowers were made and wired to the float, which was in green and gold C.W.A. colours. The time came when the Town Hall was to be demolished, and we moved to the Church of England Hall, Civic Place, but after a short time, this hall was also demolished. Meetings were then held at Ringwood Library until the library was no longer available. Our last move was to our present meeting room at Lionswood. Today you dress as you wish and membership is $12.00. The Ringwood Branch in 1995 has 2 life members and 21 members. Alice Milner March 15, 1995 As a matter of interest, of those 160 members who joined in the first year, only one active member is left with the Branch

Diary written by unknown soldier from Bendigo. Allotted to D Coy of Depot Btn - transferred to 38th Btn A Coy No 1 Platoon No 2 Section. Believed to be the diary of SERN 18, Alexander Norman Cummin.Black cover, white pages blue lines, pages marked as Cash Book. Used as a diary by person unknown.documents - diaries, military history, diaries, 38th

Items part of the collection re William Anthony THEODORE DSM. Refer Cat. No. 7926P for service details.Foolscap size yellowing paper with the script of 15 different songs and some mass responses for the service. Writing in black.Headed s.s."ORANTES, SUNDAY APRIL 9TH, 5.00- 6.00PM SONG SERVICE, TOBRUK MEMORIES". "CONDUCTED BY PADRE A.W. McIlveen".tobruk, remembrance service

This book of poetry was a Prize Awarded for Botany and Physiology an unidentifiable recipient who was Dux of Form V, it was presented by James Scott B.A., Warrnambool College. Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson FRS (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was a British poet. He was the Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets. In 1829, Tennyson was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his first pieces, "Timbuktu". He published his first solo collection of poems, Poems Chiefly Lyrical in 1830. "Claribel" and "Mariana", which remain some of Tennyson's most celebrated poems, were included in this volume. Although decried by some critics as overly sentimental, his verse soon proved popular and brought Tennyson to the attention of well-known writers of the day, including Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Tennyson's early poetry, with its medievalism and powerful visual imagery, was a major influence on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.This book was awarded to a student of Warrnambool College as an end of year prize is an example of how it was the custom to award prizes as scholastic encouragement to students for exemplary work during the school year in the late 19th to early 20th centuries.Book “The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson” poet laureate. Spine of book says “Tennyson’s Works”. Published 1892 in London and New York, by Macmillan and Co. Cover is read with gold border. Prize label book presented by James Scott BA "Form V/Dux/Botany Physiology to Master … / James Scott B.A. / Dec 18th 1893"flagstaff hill, warrnambool, shipwrecked coast, flagstaff hill maritime museum, shipwreck coast, flagstaff hill maritime village, great ocean road, alfred lord tennyson, poetical works, james scott b.a., warrnambool college form v prize 1893

Andrew Young LUNDY No 5868 enlisted on 7.2.1916 age 41years 11months in the 16th reinforcements 21st BN, embark for England 2.10.1916, embark for for Aust 22.7.17 classed “Debility”, discharged from the AIF 22.11.1917 Medically unfit, Debility.Diary, black fabric covers, diary entry pages are 136 by dates all in ink. First 3 pages have names and addresses, rear cover page has notes and figures. The diary begins in July 1917 as Andrew Lundy begins the homewards journey from England.literary work, diaries ww1

Yields information about tramway accidents in Drummond St Ballarat, during the SEC era.Two page typed manuscript, written by Alan Bradley titled "Drummond St Blues". Describes bad accidents involving Drummond St in Ballarat in 1935, 1941, 1944, 1954 and 1963. Has a summary of the details of the accidents drawn from Newspaper reports. Provided prints drawn from the Courier microfilm at the State Library of Victoria - see Reg items 4046 to 4049. Captions for these prints given. Not published in Fares Please!trams, tramways, accidents, drummond st, collision, tramcars

Diary written by LAC John Morrison No. 42562 RAAF. Enlisted 22-8-1941, Discharged 5-12-1945. Serving in 9 Transport and Movement..1) Diary, ruled paper, blue ink, both sides, dated 31-1-1942 to 24-11-42 detailing the raids on Darwin. .2) Document, typed in black re: Darwin air raids beginning 19-2-42, 4-3-42 and 16-3-42. This is .1) beginning to be typed out.diary, lierary work, raaf, darwin

Joseph Earnest WHITFORD VX25490. Refer to Cat. No. 4073.3PDocument, eight pages, typed, detailing one mans past in the battles of El Alamein in 1942. Document also has excerpts from Battalion histories.literary work, story, 2/32nd

Has a strong association with the author who was interested in public transport and chose to write an economic history essay about the close of the Ballarat Tramway system and its substitution by buses and whether they should be government operated.Fifteen, lined or ruled foolscap page manuscript / Essay for a Melbourne University Economic History subject, 1972, written Kevin Tierney about the abandonment of the Ballarat Tramway System. Has a Synopsis, references and quotations from various sources. The question to be answered was "Should the electric tramways at present operated by the State Electricity Commission in the provincial centre of Ballarat be abandoned and if so, should public ownership be retained for the replacement system?" A photocopy on A4 paper was also donated by the author. Also donated two postcards with trams - Bendigo - line up of five Birney trams and H class 357 and 358 in Jetty Road Glenelg - see image files, providing information about the essay and contacts.trams, tramways, closure, ballarat, sec, buses

Soft plastic covered copied pages from the Bendigonian April 1916.Printed top: “Easter Fair Bendigonian”newspapers, bendigonian, copies

The item belonged to Arthur George Holley No 13556 RAN, HMAS Hobart. Refer 2134 for service history also 2135.3, 2137, 2147. The history of "HMAS Hobart 1938-62". Cardboard covering with HMAS Hobart at the top, image of Hobart centre, Naval Historical Society of Australia at the bottom, 76 pages plus introductions, written by L.J Lind and M.A Payne. Copy No 456 of 1000. books, history, naval

Letters written by Thomas Magee No 1444 enlisted in F.A.Brigade 2 Ammunition Colunm AIF on 20.8.1914 age 26 years. Embark for Egypt 20.10.1914, embark for Gallipoli 4.5.1915, hospital with Mumps 19.2.1916, transfer to 4th Div Artillery 27.2.1916, embark for France 1.4.1916, promoted Bombadier 2.2.1917, promoted Cpl 30.9.1917, awarded the Military Medal (MM) at Westhoek 4.10.1917, promoted T/Sgt 23.10.1917, WIA Gassed 3.11.1917, rejoins unit 13.3.1918, promoted Sgt 7.5.1918, to No 2 Army Field rest Camp 16.7.1918 to 2.8.1918, to England 13.10.1918 special leave 1914 men, hospital with Influenza then Pnuemonia and dies in England on 25.10.1918.Series of letters, 32 in total written by Thomas Magee MM to his sister & mother. All letters are either pencil, red & black ink. Some are parts of letters with no dates or who to. The letters begin Tues 25th 1914 possibly August and continue through to Sept 1918. Letters are various sizes, some on blue paper, some on note pad size & graph paper.documents, letters, mm,

Arthur George Holley No 13556 RAN HMAS Hobart. This is the 3rd part of a diary relating to 2147. Refer also 2134 for service history, 2135.3, 2137. Diary, A.G Holley RAN. Seven page typed in blue ink with heading "Solomon Islands Landings" which began on 7th August 1942. There are no clear dates, detailed account of the action.diaries, naval, personal

Leslie John Ellison was born in Horsham in 1920. He was the son of Charles Ellifson (1892-1969) and Lilly May Rogers (1897-!966). He became a teacher and in the 1940s he dropped the "f" from his surname. In 1949 he married Aileen Beryl Ervin (6/3/1924-24/5/2004) John was interested in history and specially in Christian church history. He recorded his thoughts and research in writing. John died 25/7/1981 and is buried with his wife at the Kangaroo Flat Cemetery. Part of the Aileen and John Ellison collection.Fourteen pages handwritten essay on the crusades and an exercise book with the first chapter of the historical novel "Glorious Toil". A typewritten synopsis of the historical novel "Glorious Toil". Also, an envelope addressed to J. Ellison esq. Jacka-Jacka, Tooan posted 20/12/1946 john ellison, historical novel, history of crusades

Sheet of white paper, unlined with a 16 line poem on a trip on No. 18, dated 6-1-1997 by Ken Peake. In black biro/ink. Image added 5/12/16.Under name "One of David Frost's Passengers" in black ink.trams, tramways, poem, btm

Item in the collection of RSM Edgar Francis Dawson DCM No 4472 AIF. Refer Cat No 893 for his service history.Written on a field note paper By George Ross Freeman, 5 sheets. Address given to australian troops on the 4/11/1918 by the Bishop of Amiensdocuments notes, speech, bishop, amiens

Thomas James Morgan sent the copy home, he served in 2/12th Aust Field Artillery Regt. This copy was in the collection re Bill Jeffers VX57282, refer Cat No 147 for his service details.Poem, copy of pasted onto card, print in black with surround.“VX17773 Driver T.J.Morganliterary work, poems, tobruk

Text consists of a poem by Corporal J. Jelly, titled "Look Out Brisbane Here I Come". Poem was written to and about Alva Bennetts. Part of the Bennetts Collection. See Catalogue No. 9726P for details of service for "Alva Marie Bennetts".Cream coloured sheets of paper with text in black type on one side only.poem, corporal j. jelly, bennetts collection, alva bennetts

Yields information about the decorated trams in Ballarat in the last few years of the system, Myers Santa trams etc.A4 manuscript, titled "Santa Trams in Ballarat" written by Alan Bradley Dec 2008 for Dec. 2008 issue of Fares Please! Provides information about the Myers Christmas trams, the tramcars and Bridge St traders in 1968. Was related to colour photos received from Sydney of two of the trams. trams, tramways, christmas trams, myers, bridge st traders, santa tram

Items relate to Reginald Charles ALLARDICE No 418577 RAAF. Refer Cat No 3627.5 for his service history.(.1) Diary entries in a blue Imperial Memo Book ruled. Diary entries start on 12 -8 - to 13 -11 - detailing a round trip Australia - America return, all in blue ink. (.2) Diary, pocket size 1945, black cover with diary in gold colour on front. Writing is in blue ink. Entries are from 18.3.1945 to 31.5.1945 and 16.9.1945 to 1.10.1945.diaries, literary work