Updated in July 2026 this post now contains a reading of the 1988 article by C.G.T. Weickhardt on the Geelong Engineering firm Humble & Sons. Our society appreciates the Royal Historical Society’s Publications Committee for (more…)
This is a review of a newly published article by Society members Bob Gartland OAM and Dr Tony Joel. It offers a fresh and deeply researched portrait of Charles Brownlow, not only as a football (more…)
How non‑Indigenous historians should approach Indigenous history remains one of the most contested and sensitive questions in Australian scholarship. The challenge is not only methodological – dealing with archives shaped by colonial power – but (more…)
You can listen to a recording by clicking the following link: First appearing in Investigator magazine in June 1986, this article by Bryan Wardle traces the evolution of veterinary practice in Geelong from its earliest (more…)
Lou Lane’s article “Those Foreigners”, from Investigator, Vol. 31, No. 3 (September 1996), pages 85–94: In this richly textured memoir, Lou Lane departs from her usual focus on Aboriginal history to offer a vivid, affectionate (more…)
Lou Lane’s article “Glass – the Novel Medium” from Investigator, Volume 22, No. 4, December 1987, pp. 139–142. Members can also read that month’s issue online. You can also listen to a reading of the (more…)
Louis N. Lane’s article “The Geelong Canoe Tree” from Investigator, Volume 23, No. 4 (December 1988). Members can read that month’s issue online. You can also listen to a reading of the article by clicking (more…)
The following article revisits Lou Lane’s 1990 contribution to Investigator, in which she examines the naming customs of the Wathaurung (now Wadawurrung) people as recorded in early colonial journals. Drawing on Andrew Todd’s 1835 census (more…)
Louis N. Lane’s article “The Wathaurungs” from Investigator, Volume 23, No. 3 (September 1988) Pages 96 -109. Members can read the original from that month’s issue online. You can now also listen to a reading (more…)
The Cowies Creek Confrontation of 1803 Speaker Report on the presentation by Harry Roberts at the October 1 Meeting Harry Roberts delivered a compelling presentation on the Cowies Creek Incident of 1803, inviting members to (more…)
Charles Brownlow: the man, the legacy All members in attendance enjoyed the conversational style of presentation Tony and Bob used to illuminate different aspects of Charles Brownlow’s life and character. We read about and view (more…)
Geelong Advertiser (Vic. : 1859 – 1929), Wednesday 28 December 1921, page 5 LATE MR J. F. MULDER.GEELONG CITIZEN WITH WORLD-WIDE REPUTATION.ORNITHOLOGIST AND GEOLOGIST By the death early yesterday morning, of Mr. John Frederick Mulder, (more…)