Victorian Community History Awards shortlist announced

The shortlist for this year‘s Victorian Community History Awards has been announced.

A total of 39 publications and projects were shortlisted for 10 prizes ranging from $500 to $2000 each, and all are in the running for the $5000 Victorian Premier’s History Award.

Among the publications shortlisted are:

• A Secretive Century: Monte Punshon’s Australia (Tessa Morris-Suzuki, MUP)
• The Cranbourne Meteorite (Sean Murphy, ASP)
• Dhoombak Goobgoowana: A History of Indigenous Australia and the University of Melbourne – Volume 1: Truth (Ross L Jones, James Waghorne & Marcia Langton, MUP).
• Kondak: William Buckley Revealed (Paul Cougle, ASP)
• Letters to a Critic: Alan McCulloch’s World of Art (Rodney James, Miegunyah)
• Personal Politics: Sexuality, Gender and the Remaking of Citizenship in Australia (Leigh Boucher, Barbara Baird, Michelle Arrow, Robert Reynolds, Monash)
• River To Bay: Victoria’s Maritime History (Carole Wilkinson & Prue Pittock, Wild Dog)
• Transgender Australia: A History Since 1910 (Noah Riseman, MUP)
• The Years of Terror. Banbu-deen. Kulin and Colonists at Port Phillip 1835-1851 (Marguerita Stephens & Fay Stewart Muir, ASP).

To view the full shortlist, see the Public Record Office Victoria (PROV) website.

The winners will be announced on 24 March at a ceremony held at the Langham, Melbourne.

The Victorian Community History Awards are presented by PROV in partnership with the Royal Historical Society of Victoria. 

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