Sunday, 26 October 2025

3:00pm - 6:00 pm
Harbour Room (upstairs with lift access)
Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron
Pier Road, St Kilda 

The St Kilda Historical Society and Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron present an afternoon exploring the history and pleasures of St Kilda Pier, while admiring its charms through the windows of the refurbished Harbour Room.

Monday 1 September 2025

6:30 pm - 7:30pm
St Kilda Army and Navy Club
88 Acland Street, St Kilda (upstairs)

Rachelle Unreich is a journalist and author of A Brilliant Life: My Mother’s Inspiring Story of Surviving the Holocaust, which was shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year 2024.

Monday, 28 July 2025

6:00pm - 7:30pm
St Kilda Army and Navy Club
88 Acland Street, St Kilda
(upstairs, lift access)

Melbourne after World War I faced a housing shortage and flats were seen as a solution to the problem. By the mid-1930s almost as many flats as houses were being built across the city and many of these were in St Kilda. By 1947 St Kilda contained 5,500 flats, a quarter of all flats in Melbourne.

Monday 16 June 2025

6:00pm - 8:00pm
St Kilda Army and Navy Club
88 Acland Street, St Kilda
(upstairs, lift access)

In his compelling memoir, All the Rage, Paulie Stewart takes readers on a wild, deeply human journey through a life lived loud — and lived well. Best known as the driving force behind legendary punk band Painters and Dockers, Paulie’s story is as much about music as it is about resilience.

Sunday 1 June 2025

2:00pm - 3:30 pm
Meet outside McDonald's
Acland and Esplanade corner, St Kilda
 

See how much history can be squeezed into a stroll with Society committee member, Liz Kelly, along Acland Street from Maccas to the Prince of Wales Hotel.

Sunday 4 May 2025

2:30pm - 4:00 pm
Meet at the Barkly Street Bus 246 Stop, near Glen Huntly Road,
Opposite Bluff Mansions
 

Our journey with historian Isaac Hermann will take us down the 'Slaughterhouse Road' between the 'Abattoirs', over the bridge by the 'Dung Heap', dodge the bullets by the 'Riffle Butt', pass the 'Coal Mine', go onto the 'Quarantine Ground' through the Tea-Tree and up to the 'Glen Huntley Graves' at Little Red Bluff…

Monday 31 March 2025

6:00pm - 8:00 pm
St Kilda Army and Navy Club
88 Acland Street (upstairs, lift available)
St Kilda

For our second major event of 2025, the Society combines art history and theatre to present a compelling homage to artist Joy Hester.

Monday 10 February 2025

6:00pm - 7:00 pm
St Kilda Army and Navy Club
88 Acland Street (upstairs, lift available)
St Kilda

The St Kilda area is part of the traditional lands of the Yalukit willam clan. As part of the Kulin nation, the Yalukit willam were connected to clans as far away as the Murray River. Dr Gary Presland will detail the nature of these connections and elaborate on how the Yalukit willam made a living, at the same time honouring and caring for their country.