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Burch wins inaugural Victorian Premier’s History Award for ‘Returning the Kulkyne’

John Burch has won the inaugural Victorian Premier’s History Award, worth $5000, for his book Returning the Kulkyne, announced as part of the Victorian Community History Awards in Melbourne on 16 October.

Burch’s book tells the human stories of the Kulkyne in North-West Victoria, ‘ranging from the Indigenous Latji Latji and Nyeri Nyeri clans to squatters and pastoralists, hunters, rangers and even railwaymen, as well as the restitution of the environment after decades of misuse and degradation’.

The other award-winners included:

Judges Special Prize

  • Cruden Farm Garden Diaries (Michael Morrison & Lisa Clausen, Lantern)

Collaborative Community Award

  • Girgarre (Athol McDonald & Jenny Wadelton, self-published)

Local History Project Award

  • Notable People of Collingwood (Collingwood Historical Society, self-published)

History Publication Award

  • La Trobe. Traveller, Writer, Governor (John Barnes, Halstead Press)

Local History—Small Publication Award

  • Building Castlemaine: The Red Brick Legacy of H D McBean (Robyn Lewis, Castlemaine Historical Society)

Cultural Diversity Award

  • Reading the Wind and Afterwards, two documentary films by Adam Ricco, Lella Cariddi and Multicultural Arts Victoria

Kyneton Centenary of World War One Award

  • To Paint a War: The Lives of the Australian Artists Who Painted the Great War 1914-1918 (Richard Travers, Thames & Hudson)

For more information about the Victorian Community History Awards, click here.

 

Category: Local news