Rare Books Melbourne is pleased to announce the dates for Melbourne Rare Book Week 2026. MRBW2026 will run from 23rd July to 1st August 2026, with the ANZAAB Melbourne Rare Book Fair running at Wilson Hall from 30th July to the 1st August. We expect the program to be released and bookings for events to
The Gary Morgan Oration for 2026
Rare Books Melbourne are pleased to announce the 2026 Gary Morgan Oration, which will be held starting at 6.30pm on Thursday 5th March. This year’s speaker will be the distinguished writer Simon Plant, who will deliver the oration at the Melbourne Athenaeum Library. His topic is: George Coppin and Barry Humphries: How two great showmen
Collecting Australian Internment Ephemera
Speaker: Edwin Jewell Later on Monday morning, two events were held at the headquarters of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria (RHSV) in A’Beckett Street, Melbourne. Firstly, The Ephemera Society of Victoria featured Ed Jewell, who spoke on “Collecting Australian Internment Ephemera”. Ed shared with the audience of nearly 60 people some of the highlights
From Folio to Fopdoodle
The Johnson Society of Australia On the Sunday 23rd July, The Johnson Society of Australia held an event, “From Folio to Fopdoodle” at The Kathleen Syme Community Centre in Carlton. An audience of 40 heard the traditional speaker for the Johnson Society, John Byrne, speak about some of the interesting and unusual aspects of Dr.
Charting The Heavens with Shane Carmody
On Saturday July 22nd , almost 200 guests gathered in the Conversation Quarter of the State Library Victoria (SLV) to hear Shane Carmody deliver a genuinely exciting and informative talk, “Charting the Heavens”. Shane traversed astronomical history from the 2nd century CE writings of Ptolemy, though the later advances of Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo and Newton, right
C J La Trobe Society Event
MRBW2023 commenced on 21st July at Tonic House with an event presented by The C J La Trobe Society, and attended by almost 80 people. The speaker was historian Dr. Andrew Lemon, whose entertaining talk, “The Fencer’s Manual”, discussed the first book in Melbourne to be printed and published by the pioneering firm of Clarson,
Launch of Rare Book Week 2023
MRBW2023 was officially launched at a function kindly hosted by Roy Morgan and Michele Levine at Tonic House, 386 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, held on 21st June 2023. More than 65 friends and supporters of MRBW gathered to celebrate the launch, where they enjoyed a lively and informative address given by our guest speaker, Jane Sullivan,
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Successful return of Melbourne Rare Book Week
The Rare Books Melbourne committee has been delighted by the public’s enthusiastic response to the successful return of Melbourne Rare Book Week. We wish to thank all our partners, presenters, patrons, supporters, donors and sponsors for their vital contributions to this success. We look forward doing it all again in July 2024 for the 10th