The 2019 Victorian Community History Awards were announced at the Arts Centre as part of History Week October 2019. See below for a full list of winners and commendations.
Victorian Premier’s History Award
- WINNER Avenue of Memories by Phil Roberts and the Arch of Victory/Avenue of Honour Committee
Judges’ Special Prizes (two winners)
- WINNER The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire by Chloe Hooper, published by Hamish Hamilton/Penguin
- WINNER Blue Lake: Finding Dudley Flats and the West Melbourne Swamp by David Sornig, published by Scribe
Collaborative Community Award winner and commendations
- WINNER Mont Park to Springthorpe Heritage Project by the Springthorpe Heritage Group
- The Stories of Drouin by the Committee for Drouin Inc
- East Loddon Remembers Memorial by East Loddon P-12 college, East Loddon Historical Society and Loddon Shire
- A History of the Broadford Paper Mill by Broadford and District Historical Society Inc
- Heidelberg’s Busy Bee Signature Quilt 1895-96 by the Heidelberg Historical Society Inc
Local History Project Award winner and commendations
- WINNER When Roads Were Tracks by Jill A’Vard and Armin Richter, Monbulk Historical Society Inc
- At Home on the Hill: Stories of Pioneers in the First 30 Years of the Phillip Island Cemetery 1870-1900 by Pamela Rothfield
- Searchable Database of Properties within the Old Shire of Phillip Island circa 1872 to 1900, Phillip Island and District Genealogical Society Inc
- Gravel and Bitumen: The History of the Street Names of Bairnsdale by Anthony A. Meade
- War Worn & Weary: The Convalescent Nurses of Osborne House Geelong 1917-1919 by Cheryl Scott and Margaret Phelan, Osborne Park Association Inc
- Castlemaine Gold Diggings Map Historical & Modern Place Names by Clive E. Willman, Castlemaine Historical Society Inc
History Publication Award winner and commendations
- WINNER The Blackburns: Private Lives, Public Ambition by Carolyn Rasmussen, published by Melbourne University Press
- Gardens of the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) by Anne Vale, published by the National Trust of Australia (Victoria)
- Mirka & Georges: A Culinary Affair by Lesley Harding and Kendrah Morgan, published by the Miegunyah Press
- The Boy From Brunswick: Leonard French, A Biography by Reg MacDonald, published by Australian Scholarly Publishing
- The Football Solution: How Richmond’s Premiership Can Save Australia by George Megalogenis, published by Viking/Penguin
- Her Majesty’s Theatre Melbourne: The Shows, The Stars, The Stories by Frank van Straten, published by Australian Scholarly Publishing
Local History – Small Publication Award winner and commendations
- WINNER More Than Just Housing: The South Port Community Housing Group Story 1983-2018 by Beris Campbell, Janet Goodwin, Heather McKee and Helen Penrose, South Port Community Housing Group Inc
- Victoria’s Earliest Potteries: Our Convict Era Potters by Gregory Hill
- Not For Self But For All: A History of the Art Gallery of Ballarat Association by Anne Beggs-Sunter, Art Gallery of Ballarat
- A Tribute to Those Who Served: Remembering WWI Service Personnel Who Are Buried or Memorialised in the Warragul Cemetery West Gippsland, West Gippsland Genealogical Society
- Shedding Light: The Murtoa Stick Shed Saga by Leigh Hammerton, Murtoa Stick Shed Enterprises
Cultural Diversity Award winner and commendations
- WINNER La Nostra Storia: The Story of Italians in Ballarat by Jan McGuinness, Ballarat Italian Association
- Building Bridges: From Latin American Stories to Victorian History by Latin Stories Australia and exhibition curators Yunuen Pérez and Antonio González
- A Second Chance: the Making of Yiddish Melbourne by Margaret Taft and Andrew Markus, published by Monash University Publishing
- A Golden Age in Flemington: 10 Years of Active Aging 銀齡十年之旅, Moonee Valley Golden Age Women and editors Edith Chen and Colleen Taylor
Multimedia Award winner and commendations
- WINNER If These Walls Could Talk Ballarat Town Hall Audio Tour, City of Ballarat, Way Back When, Russell Goldsmith and Dimity Mapstone
- Parkville Heritage Walks, Oral History Digitisation and App by the Parkville Association
- What Courage Such a Thing Takes: The Life of Mary De Garis, Her Place Women’s Museum Australia
- Carlo Catani Blog by Heather Arnold
Historical Interpretation Award winner and commendations
- WINNER Carlo Catani: Visionary, Creator, Genius exhibition by CO. AS. IT Italian Historical Society
- Sale Water Tower Museum, Peter and Ann Synan
- Vale: Mourning, Remembrance and Spiritualism in Bendigo 1851-1901 exhibition by Emma Busowsky Cox, Dr David Waldron, David Cooney and Leigh McKinnon, Bendigo Art Gallery
- untitled (seven monuments), a public art project by TarraWarra Museum of Art with Aunty Joy Murphy Wandin AO, Jonathan Jones and Tom Nicholson
- Suburbia: The Familiar and Forgotten by Warren Kirk, published by Scribe
Oral History Award winner and commendations
- WINNER Black Saturday: Not the End of the Story by Peg Fraser, published by Monash University Publishing
- Sharing Our Stories: RASV Oral History Collection, Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria and Way Back When
- Bungalows of St Albans by Joseph Ribarow, Community Research and Management Services
- Along the Line: Caulfield to Oakleigh Rail Stories by Glen Eira Historical Society Inc
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