Monumental Days Book Launch

Chapel at Bendigo Cemetery

Monumental Days is a two-volume history of Bendigo Cemetery, a story of human endeavour that is not without drama or scandal. Spanning 165 years, it depicts the struggles planners, sextons […]

2025 Bendigo Historical Society Events

Events in Bendigo 2025 Our 2025 events are now on the ‘Events’ page of our website See our events page for details and links to book via Humanitix   We run […]

What’s In The Box?

Friday 4 October          2.00 p.m. La Trobe Art Institute,         121 View Street Bendigo The Bendigo Historical Society collection contains boxes, folders, drawers and shelves […]

Reading Bendigo Better

Members’ and Friends’ Meeting Friday 3 May    2.00 p.m. La Trobe Art Institute, 121 View Street Bendigo Elaine Doling, Heritage Consultant. Reading Bendigo Better is the first of a […]

Members and Friends Meeting

Friday 8 March 2.00 p.m. La Trobe Art Institute 121 View Street Bendigo Free event, everyone welcome What happened? How the Bendigo Advertiser unearths history Journalist Tom O’Callaghan finds tales from […]

Coming Events

Monthly Members’ meetings Friday November 4   “Fares to the Fair”   Women Bus Conductors in Interwar Melbourne Emma Robertson, Associate Professor, La Trobe University. Walk Into History Sunday November 6th  […]