No. 252, JUNE 1999: Sacred places: war memorials in the Australian landscape by K.S. Inglis. Finished and unfinished memorials: the stories of William Lucas and C. Web Gilbert (includes Shepparton War Memorial statue) by Donald Richardson. The Shrine of Remembrance by Peter Isaacson. Walter McConnan and the 8th Light Horse Regiment at Gallipoli by Nancy McConnan. Empire loyalism in inter-war Victoria by Hilary L. Rubinstein. Listening to the enemy: Australia's shortwave listening post in the Second World War by Helen Ferber.

No. 253, NOVEMBER 1999: Foundations and the future Susan Priestly. For the upholding of womanhood: Melbourne's interwar hostels for 'business girls' Seamus O'Hanlon. State and religion in the Australian colonies, 1788-1895 Jack Gregory.

No. 254, MARCH 2000: Opening of new premises: Official opening of the new premises of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria - Sir James Gobbo p1. Confronting cruelty: writing a history of the detection and treatment of child abuse - Shurlee Swain p7. A balloon on the Ballarat: Green's (William Green Junior) balloon extraordinary - Terence O'Neill-FitzSimons p19. A goldfields adventurer (Ellen Louisa Clacy, author of A lady's visit to the gold diggings of Australia in 1852-3) - M. Rosalyn Shennan p31. The Bichloride of Gold Institute of Victoria (set up by Wesley Central Mission for the treatment of alcoholics and drug addicts) - Geraldine McFarlane p43. OBITUARY Ian Francis McLaren OBE p52. Jacqueline Denise Templeton p53.

No. 255, SEPTEMBER 2000: Australia's Imperial War: the Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902 p75. Land selection in the Wimmera p94. Two model farmers: Ann and Joseph Day of Murchison [Day's Mill and Farm] p102. Whitehorse-Manningham Heritage Network: a community project p124.

No. 256, SEPTEMBER 2001: Title: Victoria 150 years of gold: a special issue celebrating 150 years of goldmining in Victoria. Gold: social energiser and definer p7. Gold mining and the environment p28. Warrandyte gold p45. Christian missions to the Chinese on the Victorian goldfields p86. James Oddie and his contribution to Ballarat p105. How gold shaped Victoria p117. Evolution of the Victorian gold province: geological and historical p134. Gold and arsenic in Victoria's mining history p159. Charles Joseph La Trobe and the goldfields administration p173. The Creswick mining disaster of 1882 p187.

APRIL 2002: The society's choice of emblem p7. The album of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, Victorian Branch p13. Koorie life on the Yarra Yarra (aborigines) p21. Around the world on a penny-farthing bicycle p34. Dr Evatt: exposure of 'The Movement' 1954 p51. The development of Victorian gold mining technology p64.

SEPTEMBER 2002: La Trobe's Melbourne p133. The letters of Charles Joseph and Sophie La Trobe to their daughter Agnes, 1845-1854 p143. Sir William Stawell and the taming of the Victorian legal profession p155. Charles Joseph La Trobe: sketches, sketcher, sketching, drawing p181. Early auditors-general and the crisis in public finance 1853-55 p202. Gilbert Beith 1809-43, Melbourne's first treasurer p221. The Nelson robbery p243.

APRIL 2003: The barque Norval (ship) p7. The Commercial Inn, Tarraville: maritime trade and the early settlement of Gippsland (Van Diemen's Land livestock trade; Captain Matthew Abson;) p23. Sandstone Island p46. The Australian Health Society 1875-1900 p67. Understanding colonial Australian through football p80.

OCTOBER 2003: 150 years of the Victoria police. Contents: Reflections on 150 years of policing in Victoria p127. The writing of 'The people's force' p141. Thomas O'Callaghan: Police Commissioner and historian p155. A new police in Victoria: conditions of crisis or politics of reform? p167. The Melbourne constable as automatic policeman p197. The Union and the Department: a struggle for control? p225. Larrikins and the law 1849-1874 p243. '100 howling, scowling scoundrels': exhibiting the convict hulk 'Success' in Australia p251.

APRIL 2004: Mary Gaunt 1861-1942 p15. Edward White and the survey of the South Australia-Victoria border p33. Music and identity in multicultural Ballarat p49. All at sea with logbooks p70. The 4 and a half inch Cooke Refractor of the Old Melbourne Observatory p73. A police force out of step with society p88. Women, war and the politics of consumption p96. No.262.

SEPTEMBER 2004: Eureka 150 years. Perceptions of Eureka p133. The Eureka flag and Australian Nationalism 1970-1985 p145. A note on the disputed territory legislation p161. Remembrance Day: memories and values in Australian since 1918 p165. Edward Cotton: the uncertain Cotton brother 1803-1860 p189. The Victorians in the South African [Boer] War 1899-1902 p209. The making of the Boisdale landscape and the making of a Boisdale house p225.

APRIL 2005: Simon Wonga, Aboriginal leader p3. Recollections of the Dreeite Soldier Settlement p25. Community banking: a grassroots history [Bendigo Building Society, Bank] p36. The wreck of the 'Elm Grove' [ship]: survival and endurance on Wilsons Promontory p54. The Port Phillip Aboriginal Protectorate Domestic European Constabulary 1840-1843 p68. The evolution of local government human services in Victoria p83.

OCTOBER 2005: Victorian place names issue: The Parish of Tyabb: what's in a name? p135. Naming Victoria's South West p147. George Augustus Robinson: his value as a resource for place names research p165. The place names and words collected by Philip Chauncy: a linguistic examination p180. Tales in a name: discovering inter-cultural relations through place names p199. Spurios etymologies: toponomic books and town name identities on the Murray River p211.

MAY 2006: Australia's first air wreck p5. Co-workers in Christ: George A. Brown and Christian socialism in Victoria 1885-94 p16. From boom to bust aboard the 'Floating Palace': the story of the 'Mount Macedon' [ship] [James Stewart Butters] p34. St. James's Hall to bust: the success and failure of the Melbourne popular concerts p46. Flower farming in the Dandenongs 1901-1970s p66.

NOV 2006: William Foster Stawell and the making of Victoria's constitution p106. The Brummagen coup: the start of self-government in Victoria p143. The voters of Colac 1856-1877 p162. Graham Berry: his political career between 1877 and 1880 p176. Establishing a Public Accounts Committee in the Antipodes p194. The demise of Governor Sir Brian Murray p212.

MAY 2007: Puzzling over the early Flinders charts p5. The Baudin expedition's unacknowledged achievements on the coast of Victoria p23. Australian and American National Music Camps p42. 'Out of the dark': the first successful all-black musical: aboriginal celebrity and protest p63. A Vice-Regal pair: Lady Northcote and Lady Talbot in Melbourne 1904-1908 p80. Self-help housing at Seaholme: the British Migrants Welfare Association p100. What's in a name?: from 'Din de long' to 'Coliban' [history of Coliban area near Bendigo] p119.

NOVEMBER 2007: Issue 268: Music, migration and multiculturalism. Introduction: Music, migration and multiculturalism / Kay Dreyfus and Joel Crotty p147. Playing with policy: music, multiculturalism and the Boite / Graeme Smith p152. Chinese music on the Victorian goldfields / Wang Zheng and Anne Doggett p170. Transplanting multiculturalism: Swiss musical traditions reconfigured in multicultural Victoria / Marcello Sorce Keller p187. 'The Yiddish are coming! the Yiddish are coming!': the reshaping of Melbourne's Jewish community from 1890 to 1939 / Bronia Kornhauser p206. Italo-Hispanic popular music in Melbourne before multiculturalism / John Whiteoak p228. Melbourne's Banda Bellini: localisation of a transplanted Italian tradition / Aline Scott-Maxwell p251. Jewish liturgical music of South Africa: transmission in the orthodox community of Melbourne / Kerrin Hancock with Kay Dreyfus p272. Notes on contributors p286.

JUNE 2008, No. 269 The Harvester Judgement of 1907 / John Lack and Charles Fahey p3. Pioneer circus activity in Port Phillip 1849-1854 / Mark St Leon p19. The Queen vs Ah Pew: murder, mystery and controversy at colonial Castlemaine / Benjamin Mountford p39. Glenluce p39. Samuel Hunt p39. Port Melbourne history on the line [rotary clothes line] / June Torcasio p60. Paterson Brothers, photographers p61. Frederick Poolman p62. The Brethren community at Kyneton 1900-1911 / Guy Featherstone p74. Papanui (ship) note 52 p91. 'Exotic' natives: the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria wildflower shows / Meredith Fletcher p93. The forgotten [Teresa Mary] Wardell: Victorian welfare reformer / D.J. Gleeson p107. Social work / workers p108. Catholic Social Service Bureau (Centacare) p110. Marjorie Lawrence: her controversial first Australian concert tour / Betty O'Brien p122. Barfold Gorge Falls, Coliban Falls p134.

NOVEMBER 2008 Issue 270: Women's suffrage centenary issue. The Act p163. Introduction / Judith Smart p165. Women getting the vote, the Victorian experience / Judith Maddigan p169. The 1908 Victorian Adult Suffrage Act / Patricia Grimshaw p185. The early origins of women's suffrage in Victoria / Clare Wright p210. The National Council of Women of Victoria: suffrage and political citizenship 1904-1914 / Judith Smart and Marian Quartly p224. Why frontier Queensland beat urbane Victoria to women's suffrage / John McCulloch p237. Vida Goldstein and women's public speech / Joy Damousie p251. Muriel Heagney and the Australian Labor Party 1906-1914 / Rosemary Francis p265. Clara Weekes, a 'born teacher' and first wave feminist / Deborah Towns p277. Ina Higgins, Nettie Palmer and Aileen Palmer / Deborah Jordan p296. Victorian women's organisations and Female Child Welfare Inspectors 1890-1915 / Shurlee Swain p314. Women's social reform networks in Melbourne / Renate Howe p328. Four decades of struggle for women's political citizenship in Victoria 1972-2007 / Madeline Grey p340. Electing women: the Democrats and the Australian Greens. Why is it so? / Janet Powell p353. Mrs Ternente Cooke makes history: Australian feminism's shifting attitudes to the question of 'race' / Marilyn Lake p365. Notes on contributors p380.

JUNE 2009 Vol.80 no.1 issue 271: First impressions of Victoria's forest landscapes / Lawrence Niewojt p6. S.T. Gill and the 'Arm-chair' [periodical] / Anne Longmire p22. The Welsh language press in colonial Victoria / Robert Llewellyn Tyler p45. Brief notes on some fraudulent aspects of the secret compositions of William Lawrence Baillieu and friends 1892 / P.D. Gardner p61. Masters of history: three students of Trinity College [Sir Keith Hancock, Manning Clark and Chester Wilmot] / John Reeve p76. Founding Monash: the university and the promise of modernity / Graeme Davison p91.

NOVEMBER 2009 Vol.80 no.2 issue 272 : Introduction: Judith Smart p147. Overview: the shape of history at RHSV / Weston Bate p151. The society's century: by, for and through people / Susan Priestley p158. The formation of the Historical Society of Victoria with special reference to the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, Victorian Branch / Susan Blackwood and Don Gibb p172. Victorian genesis: founding histories / Graeme Davison p191. Messages cast abroad: the history of the Victorian Historical Journal / Andrew Lemon p212. The future of the RHSV / Bill Russell p225. Panel: parenting local history: the role of the RHSV p229. Historical background and purpose / Joan Hunt p229. Building bridges / Alleyne Hockley p235. Networking through the RHSV / Lenore Frost p238. The HVSG [History Victoria Support Group] and Walhalla / Bernard Bolch p241. Panel: the RHSV collections p244. One hundred years in the library collection / Judith Bilszta p244. Early acquisitions / Bill Russell p249. In the manuscripts collection / Kate Prinsley p255. The RHSV images collection: 1909-2009 / Richard Barnden p259. Centenary memoirs: Dr Marjorie Tipping p265; John Adams p268; Barbara Nixon p270; Mimi Colligan p272; Don Garden p273; Lucille Andel p274; Professor Weston Bate p277; Emeritus Professor Alan Shaw p278. Notes on contributors p279.