Instituting The Past: The inner mechanics of the PMI Victorian History Library
Instituting The Past: The inner mechanics of the PMI Victorian History Library is a blog from the members and staff of the PMI Victorian History Library.
For the last 170 years we have been a community owned and run library specialising in the history of Victoria, Australia. The library collection is the only lending collection of its kind in Australia – with over 30,000 books for loan and over 40,000 items on site, including titles that are unavailable elsewhere.
This blog contains news about the library and research happening within it’s walls. We have everything from professional historians, to fiction writers, to architects and family historians visiting us, so this blog will always have something interesting. We also include book reviews from both our members and our staff.
We hope you enjoy Instituting The Past and if you’re interested in the library come down and say hello, our professional staff are always happy to help with any historical queries you might have.
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Plotting History: Victoria Police Historical Society (V.P.H.S.)
Originally Published 14 June 2019 My name is Tim LAMBOURNE I am a Sergeant in the Victoria Police Force, a third generation police officer and a research officer for the Victoria Police Historical Society, (V.P.H.S.). The aims of the V.P.H.S. are to promote and...
Collection Spotlight: Theatre History at the PMI Library
Originally Published 7 June 2019 Theatre has been an important part of the Melbourne cultural landscape since its inception. Community theatres have become meeting places for artists and audiences to converge, study, challenge and share creativity and ideas and often...
Book Review: The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart by Holly Ringland
Originally Published 30 May 2019 A haunting book without being bleak, a feat in and of itself. The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart draws deeply on the Australian landscape and is intensely evocative in its depiction of the natural environment. It also has one of the best...
Meet the Volunteers: Marie Pernat
Originally posted on 15th March, 2019 A chance meeting with a PMI Library staff member resulted in my visiting the library and kindly being given a guided tour. I immediately thought that I would love to volunteer in such a fine library with great historical as well...
Book Review: Return to Rosstown: railways, land sales and sugar beet ventures in Caulfield
Originally Published 24 May 2019 Why doesn’t Hawthorn Rd go to Hawthorn? And why is there a Junction Hotel at Oakleigh? The first remains a puzzle but the second makes sense. By 1895 Oakleigh was the junction of three railways: the Outer Circle, the Gippsland and the...