Fletcher wins $5000 top prize at Victorian Community History Awards

Meredith Fletcher has won the top prize at the Victorian Community History Awards (VCHA) for her book Jean Galbraith: Writer in a Valley (Monash University Publishing).

Fletcher’s biography of Galbraith, one of Victoria’s ‘most loved gardeners and garden, nature and botanical writers’, was awarded the $5000 Most Outstanding Community History Project. The judges said ‘Fletcher’s sensitive and insightful biography of this remarkable woman deserves the highest accolade in this year’s VCHA’.

Other award winners included: Block Buster! Fergus Hume and the Mystery of a Hansom Cab (Lucy Sussex, Text), which won the History Publication Prize; Lost Relations: Fortunes of My Family in Australia’s Golden Age (Graeme Davison, A&U), which won the Judge’s Special Prize; Ned Kelly under the Microscope; Solving the Forensic Mystery of Ned Kelly’s Remains (ed by Craig Cormick, CSIRO Publishing), which won the Collaborate Community Award; and Melbourne Dreaming: A Guide to Important Places of the Past and Present (Meyer Eidelson, Aboriginal Studies Press), which won the Historical Interpretation Award. Alistair Thomson also won the Peer Reviewed History Article award for an article that appeared as a new chapter in his updated Anzac Memories: Living with the Legend (Monash University Publishing).

The Victorian Community History Awards are presented by the Public Record Office Victoria in partnership with the Royal Historical Society of Victoria, and funded by the Victorian Government. For more information, click here.

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