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Victorian Community History Awards winners announced

Tuesday, 25 March 2025   Books+Publishing
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The winners of the Victorian Community History Awards have been announced.

Winning titles in each category are:

Victorian Premier’s History Award ($5000)

  • Letters to a Critic: Alan McCulloch’s World of Art (Rodney James, Miegunyah)

Collaborative Community History Award ($2000)

  • Wallace Avenue Community Park Inverloch: A Short History (J. M. Anderson, InHouse Publishing)

History Publication Award ($2000)

  • Victoria’s Earliest Porcelain Works: Art Pottery, Crockery and Insulators (Gregory Hill, self-published)

Local History Project Award ($2000)

  • Albert Park: Bridport St and Beyond (Middle Park and Albert Park History Group, self-published)

Small Organisation History Project Award ($1500) 

  • Knowledge Is Power: A History of Yallourn Technical School 1928–1993 (Graham Goulding, Moe & District Historical Society)

Small History Publication Award ($1500)

  • River to Bay: Victoria’s Maritime History (Carole Wilkinson, illus by Prue Pittock, Wild Dog)

Digital Storytelling Award ($1500)

  • Faces of Peace, Video Storytelling Project – Central Victoria’s Peacekeepers, Peacemakers and Peacebuilders (Bendigo Military Museum)

Community Diversity Award ($1500)

  • The Pioneering Jews of the Ballaarat Goldfields (Keira Quinn Lockyer, self-published)

Oral History Award (presented in collaboration with Oral History Victoria) ($1500)

  • Women, Conscription, War (Alexandra Pierce, self-published)

History Interpretation Award ($1500)

  • ‘Back to School’: A History of Local Schools in Heidelberg 1851–2000 (Heidelberg Historical Society)

History Article Award ($500)

  • ‘A Community in Crisis: Dr Deery and the Healesville Hospital Dispute, 1961–62’ (Phillip Deery, published in the Victorian Historical Journal, vol. 94, no. 2, 2023).

The Victorian Community History Awards are presented by Public Record Office Victoria (PROV) in partnership with the Royal Historical Society of Victoria. A total of 39 publications and projects were shortlisted for the awards.

Last year’s winner of the Victorian Premier’s History Award was Carmel McKenzie for St Kilda 1841–1900: Movers and Shakers and Money-makers (Manneton Publishing).

More information is available on the PROV website.

 

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