Winners announced!
We are thrilled to announce the winners of the 2024 Victorian Community History Awards.
Our main prize, the Victorian Premier’s History Award, went to Rodney James for his book Letters to a Critic. See below for the full list of amazing, prize-winning history books, podcasts, exhibitions and projects. Congratulations to all.
- Victorian Premier's History Award - Letters to a Critic: Alan McCulloch’s World of Art by Rodney James
- Collaborative Community History Award - Wallace Avenue Community Park Inverloch: A Short History by J.M. Anderson
- Local History Project Award - Albert Park. Bridport St and Beyond by Middle Park and Albert Park History Group
- Small Organisation History Project Award - Knowledge is Power: A History of Yallourn Technical School 1928-1993 by Graham Goulding
- History Publication Award - Victoria’s Earliest Porcelain Works: Art Pottery, Crockery and Insulators by Gregory Hill
- Small History Publication Award - River to Bay: Victoria’s Maritime History by Carole Wilkinson and Prue Pittock
- Digital Storytelling Award - Faces of Peace, Video Storytelling Project – Central Victoria’s Peacekeepers, Peacemakers and Peacebuilders by Bendigo Military Museum
- Community Diversity Award - The Pioneering Jews of the Ballaarat Goldfields by Keira Quinn Lockyer
- Oral History Award (presented in collaboration with Oral History Victoria) - Women, Conscription, War by Alexandra Pierce
- History Interpretation Award - ‘Back to School’: A History of Local Schools in Heidelberg 1851-2000 by Heidelberg Historical Society
- History Article Award - ‘A Community in Crisis: Dr Deery and the Healesville Hospital Dispute, 1961-62’ by Phillip Deery for the Victorian Historical Journal, vol. 94, no. 2, 2023
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2024 Event photographs
2024 Awards booklet
2024 Media release
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)
The Victorian Community History Awards are funded by the Victorian Government.