Preserving MHS history for years to come.
Over the many years the Heritage Society has been active at Melborurne High School, we have been supporting the archives staff in cataloguing and maintaining the school’s extensive curation of historical artefacts. We have also in aided and delivered requests for historic sources from old boys and communities alike, while also working on research projects into MHS’s history.
Noteable projects the Heritage Society has partaken in include the extensive distinguished Old Boys’ gallery visible around the school’s hallways, the distinguished teachers honour board, collating and presenting historical timelines of the school’s development, and the maintainence of a public digital archive of noteable historic publications.
The Unicorn, July 1941
What the Heritage Society does
The Archives
Melbourne High School maintains an archive of historic documents, records, photographs, and uniform. Digitsation of these sources is curently underway.
Request images/documents
The Heritage Society welcomes requests from old boys and communities for sources which feature past pupils or teachers of the school.
Projects
The society is undertakes numerous projects over the year, including curating timelines and images, celebrating key days of the school’s founding, and raising awareness.
The society
One of the oldest continuously-running clubs at Melbourne High School.
The Heritage Society has been a key part of MHS since it’s inception in the 1990s. The society has worked alongside many generations of admin and staff to aid in preserving, understanding, and celebrating the rich history of Melbourne High School.
33 Years of celebrating history
In 1992 a group of interested students and staff formed the Heritage Committee, an informal forerunner to the Heritage Society. This committee oversaw the curation and discovery of historic artefacts, and was the first student body to oversee the John Elden Heritage Room.
60+ Members
The Heritage Society boasts a large base of interested members dedicated to it’s cause and focus.
Special Access and privelages
The Society is the only historical preservation group at Melbourne High School. Being part of the group gives you exclusive access to archive tours and restricted parts of the school.
The Heritage Committee, 1992 – Forerunner to the Heritage Society
Blogs & Articles
A window to the school
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Recovering from a hack & server upgrades
The Heritage Society website and server recently recovered from a large attack from…
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Digitisation of the Archives
This is a broad update on Digitization, as at the end of Semester…
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A (not so) brief history of Melbourne High School
The History of education in Victoria (early – mid 1800s) In 1844, a…
The Society over the years
The Melbourne High School Heritage Society
Proudly a student-run interest group since 1996.