Rosalind Park Fernery

The Fernery in Rosalind Park: A Garden Feature of Nineteenth-Century Bendigo Hidden beneath the shade of towering River Red Gums in Rosalind Park lies one of Bendigo’s most distinctive historic […]

Stories of Bendigo Women

Women’s History Month: Discover the Stories of Bendigo’s Women Every March, during Women’s History Month, we are reminded that many of the stories that shaped our communities were created by […]

Exhibition: Bendigo With Love

Bendigo with Love: An exhibition of Photographs of the 50s and 60s by Allan Doney This Easter, the Bendigo Historical Society invites the community to step back in time with […]

Elcon Myer Bendigo

Stories from out Past Elcon Myer Blog header

Elcon Baevski Myer By Rob Upson Bendigo Historical Society Member Elcon Baevski Myer, Photo supplied by author, Marunari, Vol 50, Issue 5, July 2024 In reading about the life of […]

Binks Family Bendigo

BHS Collection Item 1402.4 Postcard addressed to Freddie Binks

Frederick (Freddie) Lawrence Binks By Rob Upson Bendigo Historical Society Member Freddie Binks was born in Ballarat in 1856 to the Rev. William Lawrence Binks and Sarah Green Binks (nee […]

Allan Doney Collection welcomed to BHS

Picture of the Bendigo Fountain during the Queens Visit taken by Allan Doney

Allan Doney Collection Event The National Trust of Australia (Victoria) has gifted the The Allan Doney Collection to Bendigo Historical Society (BHS). We formally welcomed The Allan Doney Collection into […]

BHS to co-host regional seminar

Making Ourselves Useful – historical societies in the community presented by Bendigo Historical Society & Royal Historical Society of Victoria   Victorian Historical Societies have been invited to the Shamrock […]

Legal Eagles – new exhibition opening soon

Legal Eagles exhibition poster

Legal Eagles on the Goldfields is the next exhibition to be held at History House Museum The exhibition will provide a glimpse into the social history of Bendigo’s legal and […]

Bendigo Advertiser rebuilds after devastating fire

Celebrating the new Pall Mall Building Recently David, one of our team of dedicated volunteers, was tasked with cataloguing the ‘Bendigo Advertiser Reconstruction Supplement printed in February 1963.  This eight-page […]

The swinging lass clock

Meet you outside the swinging lass! The story of the quote “Until 1939 (in Bendigo) the local constabulary wore helmets like their counterparts in London. There would always be a […]