Shortlist announced!
Congratulations to the 39 community groups, historians, writers, and creative talent shortlisted for a 2024 Victorian Community History Award (including main prize - the Victorian Premier’s History Award):
- ‘A Community in Crisis: Dr Deery and the Healesville Hospital Dispute, 1961- 62’, by Phillip Deery. Victorian Historical Journal, Vol. 94, No. 2, December 2023
- Albert Park. Bridport St and Beyond, by Middle Park and Albert Park History Group
- Along the Road to Gundagai, Biography of Jack O’Hagan and Birth of Australian Pop Culture by Jo Gilbert
- Aspects of Wonthaggi’s History through Street and Place Names. By Wonthaggi and District Historical Society, Wonthaggi and Sebastian J. ‘Sam’ Gatto
- A Secretive Century: Monte Punshon’s Australia by Tessa Morris-Suzuki
- ‘Back to School’: A History of Local Schools in Heidelberg 1851-2000 by Heidelberg Historical Society
- Dhoombak Goobgoowana: A History of Indigenous Australia and the University of Melbourne - Volume 1: Truth by Ross L Jones, James Waghorne and Marcia Langton
- Down the Line Racecourses, Richfield, Mentone, Epsom, Aspendale by John Macnaughtan
- Extraordinary/Ordinary by Lisa D’Onofrio
- Faces of Peace Video Storytelling Project - Central Victoria's Peacekeepers, Peacemakers and Peacebuilders by Bendigo Military Museum
- In The Footsteps by Melbourne Holocaust Museum, Lead Curator Jayne Josem
- Kal Angam-Kal: Stories from West Papua by Cyndi Makabory, Yasbelle Kerkow, Folole Tupuola
- Knowledge is Power: A History of Yallourn Technical School 1928-1993 by Graham Goulding
- Kondak: William Buckley Revealed: Victoria’s First European Resident and Conciliator by Paul Cougle
- Letters to a Critic: Alan McCulloch’s World of Art, by Rodney James
- Mining the Yarrowee: Environmental Change on the Ballarat Goldfield, by Susan Lawrence, Peter Davies, Greg Hil, Ian Rutherfurd, James Grove, Jodi Turnbull and Mark Macklin. Victorian Historical Journal, vol. 94, no. 2, 2023
- Personal Politics: Sexuality, Gender and the Remaking of Citizenship in Australia by Leigh Boucher, Barbara Baird, Michelle Arrow, Robert Reynolds
- Plaques documenting the fishing families of the Queenscliff Fisherman's Flat Reserve by The Fisherman's Flat Fishermen and Families Study Group (in association with the Queenscliffe Historical Museum)
- Remembering Ash Wednesday: An Oral History of the 1983 Bushfires in Aireys Inlet and District by Alexander Watkins
- Resisting Conscription in World War I by Australian Living Peace Museum, in conjunction with Soundtrails
- Revealing Stories. The Hidden History of the Performing Arts Scene in Geelong by Janine Barrand and Dianna Wells
- River to Bay: Victoria’s Maritime History by Carole Wilkinson and Prue Pittock
- The Cranbourne Meteorite by Sean Murphy
- “The Fencer’s Manual” and William Clarson: the Publisher’s Tale, by Andrew Lemon.
Journal of the C J La Trobe Society, vol. 22, no. 3, 2023 - The People’s Movement: The Birth of Selby Community House by Selby Community House and commissioned creators; filmmakers Tadji Ulrich, Lia Hills, and podcast producer Riley Jordan
- The Pioneering Jews of the Ballaarat Goldfields by Keira Quinn Lockyer
- The Standard: History and Heritage of the Benambra, Ensay, Omeo, Swifts Creek districts by Debra Squires and Omeo Historical Society
- The Unusual Football Scoring System: Six Behinds to a Goal by Graham Pilkington.
Victorian Historical Journal, vol. 95, no. 1, 2024 - The Woodlanders of Walden Hut by Janice Newton with Karen Leadbeater Phillips, Paula Herlihy OAM and Mount Evelyn History Group
- The Years of Terror. Banbu-deen. Kulin and Colonists at Port Phillip 1835-1851 by Dr Marguerita Stephens and Fay Stewart Muir
- Thomas Hannay: Travelling Photographer in the Colony of Victoria, 1858–1859 by the late Geoff Corner with Friends of the Vern McCallum Collection
- Transgender Australia: A History Since 1910 by Noah Riseman
- “Unemployed Breadwinners” and “Working Mothers”: Male Breadwinner Nostalgia and the 1990s Recession in Australia by Joshua Black. Australian Historical Studies, vol. 54, no.3, 2023
- Victoria’s Earliest Porcelain Works: Art pottery, Crockery, and Insulators by Gregory Hill
- Walking Early Box Hill by Box Hill Historical Society
- Wallace Avenue Community Park Inverloch: A Short History by J.M. Anderson
- What’s in the Box? by Bendigo Historical Society
- Whistles through the Tall Timber: Warburton – Powelltown – Noojee by Nick Anchen
- Women, Conscription, War by Alexandra Pierce
We look forward to welcoming shortlisted entrants to the awards ceremony on the 24th of March.
About the Victorian Community History Awards
Presented by Public Record Office Victoria in partnership with the Royal Historical Society of Victoria, the Victorian Community History Awards are held annually to celebrate the people involved in community history projects who are dedicated to telling local stories which help all Victorians to better understand their past. The categories include:
- Victorian Premier's History Award ($5000 prize)
- Collaborative Community History Award ($2000)
- Local History Project Award ($2000)
- History Publication Award ($2000)
- Small History Publication Award ($1500)
- Small Organisation History Project Award ($1500)
- Community Diversity Award ($1500)
- Digital Storytelling Award ($1500)
- Historical Interpretation Award ($1500)
- Oral History Award presented in collaboration with Oral History Victoria ($1500)
- History Article Award ($500)