Victorian Community History Awards 2003
Winner
We Came With Nothing: Story of the West Sale Migrant Holding Centre
by Ann Synan
The entry is accompanied by a CD, Footprints in the Tar: Includes Extracts from "We Came With Nothing" by Debbie Bye.
Category Finalists
Best Print / Publication
A Place Across the River. They Aspired to Create the Victorian Arts Centre
by Vicki Fairfax
Best Collaborative / Community Work
From Russia with Hope: Australian Jews from Russia 1870-2002 (Exhibition)
by Jewish Museum of Australia (in association with Shalom Association)
Best Audio Visual Multimedia
Casting the Net - Pioneer Fishing Families of the Gippsland Coast
by Lakes Entrance Family History Resource Centre
Best Exhibit / Display
A Stone Upon A Stone: A Touring Exhibition about the History and Heritage of Dry Stone Walls
by Melbourne's Living Museum of the West
Best Walk / Tour
Yarraville in 1901, by Carmel Taig
Best Community Research Register Records
Fallen Heroes. Warracknabeal War Memorial
by Graeme Massey (Warracknabeal Secondary College - History Department)
Commendations
Best Print / Publication
The Quick and the Dead: Stawell & It's Race Through Time
by John Perry
Kew Cottages: The World of Dolly Stainer
by Cliff Judge & Fran van Brummelen
Catholic Ladies' College: The First Hundred Years 1902-2002
by Catholic Ladies' College, Eltham
Best Collaborative / Community Work
When Fish Had Feathers: Portraits of Collingwood's Older Men
by North Yarra Community Health
Origenes: The Presence and Contribution of Victorians of Spanish and Latin American Origins
by Rafaela Lopez (CELAS - Spanish Latin American Welfare Centre Inc).
Nar Nar Goon: The Mural Town
by Nar Nar Goon Progress Association
Molesworth Street: A North Melbourne Neighbourhood 1840-1905
by Dr Winsome Roberts
Best Audio - Visual / Multimedia
The Old Melbourne Gaol: A History on CD-ROM
by Diane Gardiner & Laki Sideris (RMIT Publishing)
Best Exhibit / Display
What a Good Idea! Bendigo's Innovations, by Bendigo Historical Society Inc.
Travels with Charles Travers Mackin
by Geelong Gallery
Best Walk / Tour
McKay Smithy Heritage Trail Sunshine
by Sunshine and District Historical Society
Best Community Research Register / Records
Dictionary of Aboriginal Placenames of Victoria (including CD), by Ian Clark & Toby Heydon
Hung Men Handbook (including CD)
by Bendigo Chinese Association Museum Inc.
Terang & District Pioneer Register: The Next Generation Pre 1925
by Terang & District Genealogical Society Inc.
Useful Links
Victorian Government Bookshop: Local History - Victoria's best bookshop for local histories.
http://www.bookshop.vic.gov.au
Royal Historical Society of Victoria
http://www.historyvictoria.org.au/
Public Record Office Victoria - the archives of the State Government of Victoria
http://www.prov.vic.gov.au
Awards Archive
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