Victorian Community History Awards 2022 shortlist announced
Thursday, 6 October 2022 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing
The shortlist for the 2022 Victorian Community History Awards has been announced.
A total of 29 projects and publications were shortlisted for 10 prizes ranging from $500 to $2000 each, and all are in the running for the $5000 Victorian Premier’s History Award.
Among the 21 publications shortlisted are:
- The Architecture of Devotion: James Goold and his legacies in colonial Melbourne (Jaynie Anderson, Max Vodola & Shane Carmody, The Miegunyah Press)
- William Cooper: An Aboriginal life story (Bain Attwood, MUP)
- Heritage Making and Migrant Subjects in the Deindustrialising Region of the Latrobe Valley (Alexandra Dellios, CUP)
- ‘His Walking Feet’ in Meanjin (Jill Giese)
- Extinct: Artistic impressions of our lost wildlife (Benjamin Gray, CSIRO Publishing)
- Vandemonians: The repressed history of colonial Victoria (Janet McCalman, MUP)
- The Women of Little Lon: Sex workers in nineteenth-century Melbourne (Barbara Minchinton, Black Inc.)
- Wangaratta Festival of Jazz & Blues 30 Years (Adrian Jackson & Andra Jackson, Melbourne Books).
The winners will be announced at the Melbourne Arts Centre on 21 October.
To view the full shortlist, see the Public Record Office Victoria website.
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