2022 Events
Recollections of St Kilda
Thursday 8 December 2022
St Kilda Army and Navy Club, St.Kilda
Members attended a presentation by Professor Boris Frankel on the culture and ecology of the St.Kilda foreshore during the 1950s and 1960s.
St Kilda Murders – an autumn tale . . .
Sunday 3 December 2023
St Kilda Army and Navy Club, St.Kilda
Members joined Liz Kelly for a murderous meander through "St-KILL-da", recalling tales of a scandalous nineteenth-century attempted murder in Grey Street, the shooting of Dulcie Markham in Fawkner Street, Chopper Read causing mayhem at the Sea Baths, and a twenty-first century gangland murder in Acland Street, among other stories.
The Plight of St Kilda’s 19th Century Servants
Sunday 6 March 2022
St Kilda Army and Navy Club, St Kilda
Members and guests attended a presentation by Carmel McKenzie on the plight of St Kilda's nineteenth-century servants.
Book Launch: Borne on Favouring Breezes
Sunday 6 February 2022
Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron, St Kilda
Members attended the launch of Borne on Favouring Breezes – Fifty Years of the St Kilda Historical Society 1970-2020.