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Look History in the Eye, Melbourne

Public Record Office Victoria

Look History in the Eye is produced in Melbourne, Australia at the Victorian Archives Centre, where a hundred kilometres of historic records about Victoria’s past are carefully preserved in climate controlled vaults. We meet the people who dig into archival boxes, look history in the eye and then wonder why. You can download copies of original records featured in each episode by going to the Look History in the Eye page on the Public Record Office Victoria website here:

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20:24

Melbourne's ghost signs: Stories of entrepreneurs and...

Look History in the Eye, Melbourne ·

2025/06/17

What secrets do Melbourne's ghost signs hold? Join us as Sean Reynolds, the Instagram-famous 'ghost sign guy' shares tales of roving North Melbourne unveiling the vibrant history embedded in every brush stroke. We pause at enchanting spots like the Maison Marnay Brandy sign, and learn about Sidney Albert Cheney, the automotive pioneer who helped bring Chevrolet and Morris to Australian roads. This is a recording from Rare Book Week 2024.This podcast is produced by Public Record

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42:30

The Sandy Point skeleton: Solving a decades-old enigma

Look History in the Eye, Melbourne ·

2025/01/07

Unravel the enigma of the 'Sandy Point Man'. Discover how advanced forensic techniques combined with historical detective work put a name to a skeleton discovered off the coast of Victoria in 2017. With Victorian forensic experts Dr. Dadna Hartman and Dr. Runa Daniel leading the charge, hear how they applied complex methods like bomb pulse dating and forensic genetic genealogy to give the body a name and reveal what happened the day he disappeared.This podcast is produced by Public Record

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49:47

Travelling to Tomorrow: Australian women of 1920s...

Look History in the Eye, Melbourne ·

2024/12/10

Join us as we journey into the profound stories of Australian women who ventured to the United States during the 1920s and 1930s, leaving their mark on the art world, sport, politics, and society. With historian Dr. Yves Rees as our guide, we uncover research into pioneering artist Mary Cecil Allen, Judge May Lahey, surfer and teacher Isabel Letham and social economist Persia Campbell, whose remarkable achievements built bridges across the Pacific before the second world war tied the knot. A lecture

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32:32

The Brookside girls

Look History in the Eye, Melbourne ·

2024/11/19

Interview with award-winning journalist Erica Cervini. The Brookside girls is episode 14 of Look history in the eye. Erica Cervini is an award-winning education journalist, researcher and family historian. She recently wrote an article for Public Record Office Victoria's Provenance Journal about the Brookside Reformatory for Girls in Cape Clear, ten miles from Scarsdale Victoria. We delve into her research in this episode, including the cruel and unusual treatment, multiple escapes, and...

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39:01

Unravelling phrenology: a dive into a controversial...

Look History in the Eye, Melbourne ·

2024/02/06

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50:17

Unearthed: The audacious story of Fanny Finch,...

Look History in the Eye, Melbourne ·

2023/08/29

Hold on to your hats as we unearth the audacious story of Fanny Finch, an English emigrant who journeyed to Australia in the 1830s. Finch, a woman of colour, dodged open mine shafts and drunken men to succeed as a businesswoman and a trailblazer for women's rights in her efforts to survive as a single mother. We also bring to light how her life inspired an award-winning stage play, which clinched the Victorian Community History Award for innovative historical interpretation in 2021.Our special

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51:20

The Boy in the Dress

Look History in the Eye, Melbourne ·

2023/06/27

Author, Jonathan Butler shares insight into his book The Boy in the Dress. This gripping family memoir shares Butler's archival research journey investigating the unsolved murder of his serviceman relative. It shines fresh light on Australia’s queer military history. Today’s episode is a recording of our Melbourne Writers Festival event from 2022 with author Jonathan Butler in conversation with Dr Yves Rees. Dr Rees is an historian at La Trobe University and co-host of the Archive Fever

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22:47

Activism on the goldfields: Victorian Chinese petitions

Look History in the Eye, Melbourne ·

2023/06/13

The Australian gold rush years saw a boom in immigration and prosperity, but it wasn’t always a harmonious time. Racist attitudes towards Chinese people in Victoria led to discriminatory legislation. Standing up against this oppression, thousands of Chinese people presented petitions to government. These petitions are some of Victoria’s earliest examples of activism and they provide a rare opportunity to capture Chinese perspectives and their experiences in the young colony. This is a recording of a

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25:50

Queer stories from the archives

Look History in the Eye, Melbourne ·

2023/05/16

Talk by Angela Bailey, Vice-President of the Australian Queer Archives.Queer stories from the archives, episode 9 of the podcast series Look history in the eye discusses the Australian Queer Archives and the records in PROV’s collection that have a unique meaning to Victoria’s contemporary queer communities. This talk was originally given at the Victorian Archives Centre for International Archives Day 2022.Presented by Public Record Office Victoria.This podcast is produced by Public Record Office

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17:00

The Kamarooka panther

Look History in the Eye, Melbourne ·

2023/01/24

Interview with Desiree Pettit-Keating from the Bendigo Regional Archives Centre.We're venturing out of Melbourne forThe Kamarooka panther, episode 8 of the podcast series Look History in the Eye. This episode is about the 1907 sighting of a creature known as the 'Kamarooka Panther'. The big cat was first spotted by sisters Alheith and Trine Christensen and made headlines from Bendigo to Melbourne, and right across the State.In this episode, Bendigo Regional Archives Centre's

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36:57

Charles Troedel Archive

Look History in the Eye, Melbourne ·

2022/06/28

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17:54

Pioneer girls and flappers

Look History in the Eye, Melbourne ·

2022/04/26

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30:24

Pentridge prison escape

Look History in the Eye, Melbourne ·

2022/04/19

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23:38

Deadtown to musictown

Look History in the Eye, Melbourne ·

2022/04/12

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26:07

They called her Madame B

Look History in the Eye, Melbourne ·

2022/04/05

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25:33

Monuments for the masses

Look History in the Eye, Melbourne ·

2022/03/29

Interviews with architectural historians Derham Groves and Seamus O'Hanlon. Monuments for the masses, episode 2 of the podcast series Look history in the eye explores the reasons why Melbourne was desperate for a landmark in the 1970s and where it all went wrong. Melbourne loves to look back and laugh at the kitschy ideas that were submitted in the Landmark Competition. But the archives tell a different story, one where world-famous architects and artists were let down by a process too

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21:56

The silent prison: Pentridge and the panopticon

Look History in the Eye, Melbourne ·

2022/03/29

Interviews with Melbourne archaeologists Adam Ford and Geoff Hewitt. The Silent Prison, Episode 1 of the podcast Look History in the Eye is about the convergence of ideology and design. Pentridge Prison, in Melbourne and its on-site panopticons were the physical manifestation of criminal reform ideas in the 1800s. Radical concepts of that time were designed into the architectural vision for the prison and introduced a method we now know as one of mankind’s most brutal forms of punishment. Presented

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