The Victorian Community History Awards recognise excellence in historical method. The various categories acknowledge that history can be told in many and varied formats with the aim of reaching and enriching all Victorians. From 2011 the Victorian Community History Awards will be delivered as a partnership between the Royal Historical Society of Victoria and the Public Record Office Victoria.
2011 Victorian Community History Awards
View of the 2011 VCHA ceremony at Parliament House
The Victorian Community History Awards 2011 ceremony was held in Queen’s Hall, Parliament House on Thursday, 20 October 2011. Steve Grimwade, Director of the Melbourne Writers’ Festival was a guest speaker and the Premier was represented by the State Member for Bentleigh, Ms Elizabeth Miller MP.
Download the Victorian Community History Awards 2011 Souvenir Brochure (pdf, 1.4MB) for a complete list of the 2011 category winners and commendation recipients.
Overall Winner 2011 ($5,000)
Overall Winner 2011: The People of Budj Bim by the Gunditjmara people with Gib Wettenhall
The People of Budj Bim by the Gunditjmara people with Gib Wettenhall, em PRESS Publishing, Heywood, 2010.
The people of Budj Bim (Mt Eccles) are characterised in the subtitle as ‘engineers of aquaculture, builders of stone house settlements and warriors defending country’. This wonderful exposition about the Gunditjmara people and their country around Budj Bim and Tae Rak (Lake Condah) is well-researched, clearly presented and shows a profound knowledge and understanding of the natural, cultural and historical elements that made the landscape and its people in their many manifestations through to present times. This publication is a superb community history.
Best Print Publication: Commercial 2011 ($2,000)
The Victorian Bush: its ‘original and natural’ condition by Ron Hateley, Polybractea Press, Melbourne, 2010.
Best Print Publication: Self or Community Publication 2011 ($2,000)
The Catalysts: Change and Continuity 1910-2010 by Anne Longmire, published by the Author and The Catalysts, Melbourne, 2011.
Best Collaborative and Community Work 2011 ($2,000)
Our Boys at the Front, The Mornington Peninsula at War 1914-18 from the pages of the Peninsula Post, Book & DVD by Michael Collins and others, Mornington & District Historical Society, 2011.
Best Community Research, Register, Records 2011 ($4,000)
‘I Succeeded Once’: The Aboriginal Protectorate on the Mornington Peninsula, 1839-1840 by Marie Hansen Fels, ANU E-Press and Aboriginal History with Aboriginal Affairs Victoria, Canberra, 2011.
Best Walk/Tour 2011 ($2,000)
Henry Handel Richardson in Maldon by Peter Cuffley, Helen McBurney, Geoff Palmer & Janey Runci, published by the Authors, Maldon, 2010.
Best Exhibit or Multimedia 2011 ($2,000)
Mameloshn: How Yiddish Made a Home in Melbourne by The Jewish Museum of Australia.
Judges’ Special Prize for Excellence 2011 ($1,000)
Early Navigators of Bass Strait, 1770-1803 by Gregory Eccleston and others, map produced by the Office of Surveyor-General Victoria, 2010.
Content approved by Simon Smith on 02-11-11.
