Podcasts: the Story of Geelong
Voices from the Past … Stories for Today
Stories of Geelong Podcasts bring the region’s history to life through narrated articles from the Geelong Historical Society’s archives. Each episode features a reading of a published piece from our publications, illuminating the people, places, and events that shaped our community. Whether you’re a local, a researcher, or simply curious, these stories offer a window into Geelong’s past, told in the voices of today.
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Just search for the name “Stories of Geelong” and you can listen anywhere, anytime.
Podcasts
The Early Field Naturalists of Geelong
Welcome to another episode of Stories of Geelong, where we explore the people, places and ideas preserved in the Geelong Historical Society’s archives. In this episode, we turn our attention to the early field naturalists of Geelong — the enthusiasts, collectors and explorers whose curiosity …
Little Scotland: a story of a vanished neighbourhood
In this episode of Stories of Geelong, we follow the memories of L. J. Keavy, who spoke to the Geelong Historical Society in 1967 about the small but spirited neighbourhood once known as Little Scotland. His recollections span more than forty years of life and …
The Cusp of Change
In this episode of Stories of Geelong, we travel back 190 years to read one of the earliest descriptions of the Geelong area. This topic chose itself. This podcast began its life as a talk to the Ocean Grove & Barwon Heads Rotary Club in …
Ink, Ambition, and Insolvency: The Chronicle’s Tale
In this episode of Stories of Geelong, we explore the rise and fall of a bold publishing venture that once gave its voice to the city whose name it bore: The Geelong Chronicle. Launched in March 1861 by Thomas Allen Sidders, The Chronicle was more …
Miles from Anywhere: Mary Jane Muirhead’s 1847 Voice from Port Phillip
Welcome to Stories of Geelong, where we uncover the histories that shaped our community. In this episode, we journey back to the frontier days of early Victoria through the voice of Mary Jane Muirhead. In December 1847, Mary Jane, the Irish‑born wife of squatter Robert …
The Call to Arms: Enlisting or Resisting
Stories of Geelong: Enlisting and Resisting Welcome to Stories of Geelong, where we uncover the histories that shaped our community. In this episode, we revisit our November 2025 Society meeting, where Dr Bart Ziino of Deakin University explored a rarely told side of the Great …
From Farriers to Surgeons: Geelong’s Veterinary Story
This episode revisits Bryan Wardle’s detailed account of veterinary practice in Geelong — from its earliest days to the modern profession. At a time when horses powered transport, commerce, and daily life, veterinary surgeons were vital figures. Working alongside farriers and livery-stable keepers, they kept …
Hume & Hovell – ‘Knowing the Past, but not captive to it’
As the 200th anniversary approached, Michael O’Donnell revisited the epic journey of Hume and Hovell, whose expedition reached the shores of Corio Bay near present‑day Lara on 16 December 1824. In this podcast, he traces how attitudes toward colonial exploration, expansion, and settlement have evolved; …
Those Foreigners
In this richly textured memoir, Lou Lane departs from her usual focus on Aboriginal history to offer a vivid, affectionate portrait of early 20th-century life in East Geelong. “Those Foreigners” is both a personal recollection and a social snapshot; told through the eyes of a …
Geelong Athletics – A False Start
In the early 1890s, amid the rise of amateur sport across colonial Victoria, Geelong made a spirited, if short-lived, attempt to establish itself as a centre for organised athletics. Harry Roberts’ meticulously researched article, Geelong Athletics – A False Start, traces the brief but ambitious …
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