Join us for the launch of the next book in the Streets Beneath Our Feet series, Fitzroy, on Tuesday 10 November at the Royal Historical Society of Victoria at 239 A’Beckett Street, Melbourne at 12.30pm.
In each edition, Professor Robert Pascoe and Dr Chris McConville guide walkers through local history, street by street. Drawing on oral histories, newspapers, police and court records, artworks and novels, the authors bring past residents vividly to life, the workers and migrants, larrikins and eccentrics, publicans, children and dreamers who shaped these streets.
Fitzroy will be launched by historian, social activist, and long-term Fitzroy resident, Dr Val Noone. Among his many achievements Dr Noone led the campaign for a monument in Williamstown for those Irish dispossessed by the Great Hunger of 1845-1852 who came to Hobson’s Bay.
To attend, please RSVP to Rob Pascoe via email Rob.Pascoe@vu.edu.au
For more information about the series, please visit https://www.streetsbeneathourfeet.com/