Rare Book Week, last week of July 2023

WANT TO KNOW ABOUT HOW TO BUILD A COLLECTION ABOUT FAR FLUNG PEOPLE, OFTEN NOT ENGLISH SPEAKING, WHO WERE IMPRISONED IN AUSTRALIA IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS? Well come to Rare Book Week (RBW), and on Monday 24 July at 11 am, Edwin Jewell a great collector will be talking and showing highlights from his internment ephemera sub-collection. Like all talks in Rare Book Week, it is free and fascinating.

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The talk is at The Royal Historical Society of Victoria, 239 A’Beckett Street, Melbourne. There will be light refreshments and at 12.30 another RBW talk: by The RHSV’s Jillian Hiscock talking about some of the gems that came to the RHSV through the Royal Geographical Society in the 1920s.