Victorian Community History Awards 2017

Proudly participating in History Week Victorian Premier’s History Award Judges’ Special Prize This award, previously known as the Victorian Community History Award, The judges can award a special prize for any outstanding entry. recognises the most outstanding community history project in any category.

This is a book about country. It begins For eighty years her home, Cruden Farm, with consideration of the pre-colonial provided Dame Elisabeth Murdoch with a environment and traditional owners of complex garden for which she had a deep a largely unknown area in north-west and special love. Her gardener for more Victoria, and concludes with the area than 46 years, Michael Morrison, kept becoming nationally and internationally diaries that recorded the daily work in the recognised for the unique qualities of its garden, as it related, for instance, to the natural and cultural landscapes. water features, walled garden, specialised beds, notable trees, and nursery. The The human stories of the Kulkyne diaries provide an invaluable record range from the finely balanced ways of the decisions made about planning of the Indigenous Latji Latji and and planting, watering and weeding, Nyeri Nyeri clans; to squatters and composting and cultivating. pastoralists; hunters, foresters, rangers and railwaymen; and to the earnest The photographs by Simon Griffiths and endeavours of interest groups, each the discussions that emerge from diary focused on the Kulkyne’s natural or entries, combine to delight the reader. The cultural heritage. These stories are woven balance that the two gardening partners seamlessly together into a narrative based achieved in landscaping and maintaining on painstaking research in oral histories the farm grounds is expressed in Lisa and documentary sources, and draws on Clausen’s prose, often reflecting on a deep appreciation of the workings of seasonal change, birdlife, and particular the natural world. This is best illustrated features of the garden. In all, this work is in those sections dealing with the book’s a joy to dip into, or to read fully at leisure. main theme, the restitution of the The book’s production is perfect, from the Kulkyne’s environments after decades Returning the Kulkyne Cruden Farm Garden Diaries gorgeous photography and creative design, of misuse and degradation. John Burch Michael Morrison and Lisa Clausen Published by the author, Melbourne 2017 Lantern (Penguin), Melbourne, 2017 to the bound bookmark and end bands, John Burch set out to write something quality paper, and bark-inspired end- that would be ‘available to any who would papers. be interested’. What he has produced is a book that is history at its very best. Returning the Kulkyne not only adds to our knowledge and understanding of its subject; it is a fine example of the power of historical narrative.

2 3 Collaborative Community Award Local History Project Award This award recognises the best community collaborative work which This award recognises activities that enhance access to records of involves significant contributions from several individuals, groups or significance to local communities. historical societies.

For more than 70 years Fletcher Jones The Notables of Collingwood database & Staff was an institution in the clothing contains 104 biographies at present, but industry. From small beginnings in twice that number are in the pipeline of Warrnambool in 1924, the company this ongoing project. Searchable online expanded under the benign and at the Collingwood Historical Society’s enterprising Fletcher Jones; by the 1970s website by alphabetical listing, the it had more than 50 stores throughout the biographies have been well researched by country and had become an Australian society members. icon and a model of collaborative business The subjects of the biographies are past practice. So deeply sewn into the fabric of residents of Collingwood, Clifton Hill, Warrnambool’s local community was the and Abbotsford connected with various company of Fletcher Jones, that its closure Fletcher Jones: endeavours and a few outsiders who sparked a campaign to ‘Save the silver Stories from our Community strongly influenced local development. ball and Fletcher’s garden’ and create a Julie Eagles, Project Coordinator Thus we become acquainted with early website to record the company’s history, www.fjstories.org.au settler James Campbell, diarist Emily staff memories and myriad connections Childers, mirror manufacturer Abbondio with the local community. Notable People of Collingwood Campi, stonemason and politician Charles The website, structured into the two main Collingwood Historical Society Jardine Don, doctor and suffragist Grace themes of the business and conservation http://collingwoodhs.org.au/resources/ Vale, and architect William Pitt. Each entry issues, is replete with images, animated notable-people-2 contains a photograph, where available, stories and videos about a company that with a brief biography, and a link to the had a humane ethos in the cut-throat full entry. Further links lead to research world of clothing manufacturing. The site sources and relevant external sites. is attractively presented, easy to navigate This project will greatly assist researchers and immensely informative. In short, it is of biographical, local and family history. an excellent example of a collaborative It is a fine model for enhancing access community project. to records of significance to local communities.

Commendations Commendations Girgarre Many Hands: The First Forty Years of the Australian Celebrating History: Items from the Queenscliffe The Children of the Port Phillip Aboriginal Athol McDonald and Jenny Wadelton Tapestry Workshop Historical Museum Collection Protectorate Girgarre Living History, 2016 HarperCollins for the Australian Tapestry Workshop, R. Brown, J. Grant, S. Lee and D. Sawyer Ian D. Clark and Fred Cahir 2016 Queenscliffe Historical Museum Inc., 2017 Australian Scholarly, 2016 Australian Book Collectors. Some Noted Australian Book Collectors and Middle Park. The Way We Were The Forgotten Factory Collections of the Nineteenth and Twentieth The Middle Park History Group Clunie Walker Centuries. Third Series, Volumes IV and V. Middle Park History Group, 2016 Exhibition, ebook and website: Charles Stitz, Editor https://www.forgottenfactory.com Book of Kells, 2016

4 5 History Publication Award Local History - Small Publication Award This award recognises the most outstanding non-fiction publication or This award recognises the best small, limited-run publication or e-book e-book on Victorian history. which features Victorian local, cultural or social history.

Charles Joseph La Trobe, a gentleman This artistically designed and lavishly fond of painting, rambling and botany, illustrated book explores McBean’s legacy was appointed Superintendent of the to the built environment of Castlemaine. Port Phillip District in 1839. Influenced Either as architect or contractor, McBean by the Moravian church, he supported was involved with numerous Castlemaine institutions for moral improvement commercial, municipal and private and parkland for community benefit buildings. The son of a family who migrated in a society preoccupied with self- from Scotland to Melbourne in the 1850s, aggrandisement. Naturally conservative, McBean resided in Castlemaine from he took charge of colonists impatient for 1893 to 1904, and became prominent in separation from NSW and democratic the Presbyterian Church and municipal rights. Tied up with red tape, the need for council. He called his house in the town approval from distant officials, he endured Balerno after his family’s home village the barbs of the wilful Argus and fickle near Edinburgh. public. Even before his appointment as McBean’s signature house style was red Governor of Victoria and the onslaught of brick with tuckpointing and the decorative the gold rushes, he described himself as a features of Queen Anne and Federation ‘grave, careworn potentate’. designs. Assisted by the Castlemaine Elegantly written and meticulously Historical Society, the author introduces researched, this biography carefully many early residents associated with considers issues and shows sympathetic McBean’s work. The book includes a town insight into character. The book is a walk to 22 buildings exemplifying his handsome publication, featuring many style and illustrations of his typical house of La Trobe’s sketches and water-colours. interiors. Inspired by her own McBean Although largely forgotten after his death– La Trobe. Traveller, Writer, Governor Building Castlemaine: The Red Brick residence, the author deftly conveys in accord with the motto of the university John Barnes Legacy of H.D. McBean McBean’s contribution to the distinctive his Government founded, Postera crescam Halstead Press in association with State Robyn Lewis character of Castlemaine. laude– La Trobe steadily increases in Library Victoria and La Trobe University, Published by the author in conjunction esteem. 2017 with the Castlemaine Historical Society, 2016 Commendations Commendations I Like a Clamour. Judge Walpole Willis, Colonial Judge A Journey of Hope and Resilience: Safeguarding Reconsidered. Children for 120 Years Hunt Them, Hand Them: We Are All Travellers: Max Bonnell Lucy Bracey and Fiona Poulton ‘The Tasmanians’ in Port Phillip 1841-42 Celebrating 100 Years of Travellers Aid Australia The Federation Press, 2017 Children’s Protection Society, 2016 Kate Auty and Lynette Russell Alicia Cerreto with Sarah Rood Justice Press, 2016 Travellers Aid Australia, 2016 Ranelagh. A Special Place Cazaly: The Legend M. Breidahl, D. Dick and V. Grounds Robert Allen A Shrine on the Mountain: Ranelagh Publishing House, 2016 Slattery Media Group, 2017 The Story of St Peter’s Memorial Church, Kinglake Jillian Durance Driftwood: Escape and Survival Through Art Published by the author and Stephen Holmes, 2016 Eva de Jong-Duldig Arcadia, 2017

6 7 Cultural Diversity Award Multimedia Award This award recognises the most outstanding project or publication that This award recognises the best presentation of history which uses highlights the cultural diversity of Victoria. non-print media and has a broad community reach.

These two documentary films focus The gifted Cornish architect Joseph Reed on immigrants who arrived as children studied classical and Gothic revival styles at Station and Princes Piers between in London and later the architecture 1947 and 1971, a time when one million of northern Italy. Arriving in gold-rush migrants disembarked. Reading the Wind Melbourne in 1853, he identified with introduces migrants whose families fled the town’s aspirations to become a great oppression in their home countries. The city. The Melbourne Public Library was restoration of Princes Pier in 2011 was the the first of a succession of grand public catalyst for this and other projects. buildings by Reed; these included the classical Baptist church in Collins Street, Afterwards encounters three of the Reading the Wind and Afterwards the Independent church in Lombard children, now mature adults, who Joseph Reed and the Making of Two documentary films directed by Romanesque style and the monumental successfully adapted. The artist Domenico Marvellous Melbourne Adam Ricco, produced by Lella Cariddi in town hall. Wilson Hall was a vision in Tudor de Clario from Italy presented numerous Design and narration by Ros Stirling, association with Multicultural Arts Victoria. Perpendicular while the noble Exhibition exhibitions while Mimmo Cozzolino, also produced by Heritage Films. https://vimeo.com/178414628 Building was crowned by a dome from Italy, wrote the popular Symbols of http://www.heritageaustralia.com.au/ reminiscent of the Florentine Cathedral. Australia. Maria Vamvakinou from Greece articles/features/5014-joseph-reed-and- was an interpreter as a child to the Greek the-making-of-marvellous-melbourne Historic and contemporary images neighbourhood in Brunswick, and later alternate in this video conveying continuity. became the first Greek-born woman to Despite demolitions, most of the main be elected to Federal Parliament. She buildings remain. The narration is clear, reflects on ‘the dream of return’ syndrome concise and perceptive. Celebratory among immigrants; many finally became baroque orchestral music heightens anchored by grandchildren. the sense of Reed’s architectural achievements and suggests an analogy This project movingly explores the between these two creative arts. Reed transformative experience of migration himself was a violinist and sensitive to the through the recollections of those who acoustics of buildings he designed. This contributed to a peaceful and vibrant video is a fine tribute to the marvellous multicultural society on foreign shores. legacy of Joseph Reed.

Commendations Commendations From Small Beginnings: Chinese Fortunes HM Gaol Beechworth East Loddon Remembers The Victorian School of Languages Exhibition and event hmgaolbeechworth.com East Loddon P-12 College and East Loddon and Catherine Bryant and Bruno Mascitelli Chinese Australian Cultural Society Ballarat Inc., 2017 District Historical Society Australian Scholarly, 2016 Donald Cemetery www.eastloddonanzacs.com Donald Public Cemetery Trust, 2016 Andiamo www.donaldcemetery.com.au Angelo Indovino Published by the author, 2017

8 9 Historical Interpretation Award Centenary of WW1 Award This award recognises the most outstanding local history project This award recognises the best work or project on the impact of WW1 on presented in a unique format. Victoria or Victorians.

This guided township walk has a compact Among the Victorian artists represented format, concise information on 54 stops in this book are Arthur Streeton from the and a clear fold-out map. Conformity Heidelberg School, and Dora Meeson to the usual template for guided walks whose ‘Leaving for the Front’ is a feature masks the skill underlying the project. The of the Ballarat Art Gallery. Remarkably, individual buildings form a window on to four of the artists who figure prominently the industrial, commercial and cultural come from the Ballarat district, namely history of Kyneton and also reflect the Will Dyson and Hilda Rix Nicholas from early development of regional Victoria. Ballarat, Will Longstaff from Clunes and Norman Lindsay, member of the talented Far from being trapped in the past, the Lindsay family, from Creswick. town is constantly adapting to change. Thus a church becomes a theatre, a bank is In addition to portraying the conflict, reinvented as a museum, the former butter several of the artists were involved with factory operates as a retail emporium, and the war effort. Norman Lindsay painted the school once attended by Alfred Deakin powerful recruiting posters and helped is now the private residence College House. raise funds. Will Dyson, Australia’s first Retail advertisements transport readers official war artist, and husband of Ruby back to earlier times, and anecdotes such Lindsay, was twice wounded on the as that about the recalcitrant post office Western Front. clock enliven the text. To Paint a War Travers has crafted an engrossing tale This booklet, dedicated to one of its The Lives of the Australian Artists Who of the men and women who creatively foremost contributors, Don McLure, has Painted the Great War, 1914–1918 interpreted the events and effects of a strong community dimension and is an Richard Travers the war. The book contains excellent exemplar of a guided township walk. Discover Historic Kyneton: Thames & Hudson, 2017 reproductions of paintings on quality A Guide to Discovering Kyneton’s paper, comprehensive footnotes, Historic Places and People bibliography and index. It is a notable Discover Historic Kyneton, 2017 contribution to the centenary of the Great War.

Commendations Commendations Falls User Guide Olinda Heritage Walk from Settlement to Village The Everyday War Contribution and Conflict: http://www.fallsuserguide.com/blue/welcome-tablet. 1905–1915 Andrew May, Nicole Davis and Nicholas Coyne A History of Wonthaggi and the First World War html Mount Dandenong and District Historical Society, 2016 Provenance, no. 15 2016-17 and website: Sebastian J. ‘Sam’ Gatto https://melbournehistoryworkshop.com/portfolio/ Wonthaggi and District Historical Society, 2016 Alpine Heritage Guide the-everyday-war-2017 Alpine Shire Heritage Network, 2016 J.D. Burns. Poet, School Boy, Soldier, Martyr A.J. McAleer Lilydale RSL sub-branch, 2016

10 11 History Article (Peer Reviewed) Thank you This award recognises the best essay or article published in a recognised Thank you to all the entrants of the 2017 Victorian Community History peer reviewed journal that illuminates the history of Victoria or Victorians. Awards for your contribution to capturing, preserving and sharing our State’s memory.

In this imaginative and engaging article, 75 years of Templers Beyond the Rock Fighting for the Trees: The Giffard, Darriman and Miranda Francis recovers the history of in Australia Janelle McCulloch story of the Blackburn & District: A community Editors - Doris Frank and District Tree Preservation history a crèche established at Footscray High Renate Weber Brunswick Cycling Society 1959–2016 Lisa Harrison & School in 1976, and in so doing uses this Centenary Book David Berry Nicki Jennings 100 Years of Scouting in Ben Schofield micro-history to illuminate Victorian Sale 1917–2017 Finding Lanky Manton Good Beer, Good Cheer - women’s changing experience of work Chris Lyon Brunswick Street, Jim Poulter Yackandandah’s Pubs of and family life in the 1970s, the impact Art & Revolution the Past Activism, Heritage and Anne Rittman & Fine Spirit and Pluck: Mark Grealy of feminist ideas and activism, and how New Histories Maz Wilson World War One Stories women were able to force change in child Jacqueline Wilson & From Banyule Nillumbik The Good Cop: The true Building of Les’s Shed care provision. Frank Golding and Whittlesea story of Ron Iddles, Sue Thompson, Lilydale & Liz Pidgeon Australia’s Greatest AE2 Plaques District Historical Society Francis deftly interweaves and compares Detective Friends of Gallipoli Inc. Footscray Wharves Precinct Justine Ford archival documents and oral history Chances Matter Peter Haffenden One woman’s Crèche is a Bureaucrat’s Alexander Archibald and Vernon Knight The Grandest House in interviews to enrich our understanding Emily Morgan: Donnelly’s The Forgotten Island Child-Minding Centre: Charles Pratt of the District of the complex interconnections between Creek Gold Angela Borelli Roger Southern women’s experience and institutional “The Flat” at Footscray High School Heather Sjoberg Belmont Common Kevin O’Reilly Four Courses for 100 Years: needs, novel ideas and conservative 1976–1986 The Great Walk The Amazing Life of The Centenary of Lake Aaron Wan resistance, and local action and public Miranda Francis Mary Schwerkolt The Collingwood Bolac Golf Club 1917-2017 Barracker: 1853–1906 policy. Provenance, no.15 2016–17 Rosalie Schwerkolt Karen McIntyre Gunners Vietnam 67/68 Whalen Robin Murphy Editors: Bruce Benjamin From Buckets to Brigades Burrow and John Godfrey Anastasia: From Callan CSL Rich Past: Heather Fleming to Stockyard Creek Healthy Future Heritage Shared Archive Liz Rushen and Kathy Neil Montagnana-Wallace From the Newspapers Facility and Digitisation Julie George, Gibson The CSL Story Project Yallourn Association City of Greater Dandenong ANZAC Walk – Emerald Simon Dikkonborg Peter Maloney From the Paddock Historical Driver’s Guide Cuthberts: A Ballarat to the Agora Institution to the Great Ocean Road The Armour of Light: Don Watson, Robert Ross Bastiaan The Life of Reverend Doctor Jill Blee Manne, Dennis Altman, Barry Marshal Depends What You Marilyn Anderson, Clare History Matters Nola Firth Mean By Extremist Wright, and Penny Davies Torquay Museum Without Walls Ash Wednesday Bushfire John Safran The Galahs Education Centre The Enterprising Mr Cam Fink, Rob Heath and History of the Casterton Graham Simpson MacGregor: Stockbreeder Tony Wilson Railway Station Adam Robertson Commendations Best One Ever! and Pioneer Pastoralist Gallipoli: The Making of Cherie Moselen and Fay Woodhouse an Officer - How Private History of Indian Female Spectators, Agency, and the Politics of Stephen Reymolds Female Mental Illness Horace Hyman Fryberg No Community in Victoria Pleasure: An Historical Case Study from Australian 2304 Became Major Alan and Australia Rules Football The best possible Issues - 3CR Podcast (7 November 2016) Harvey-Brooks, Chaplain SBS Radio Punjabi Matthew Klugman foundation: Yarra’s Nerrida Pohl International Journal of the History of Sport, 33: 17 maternal and child health Sue Armstrong Honour the Work: Bendigo centres, 1917–2017 Fifteen Young Men: Geelong Voices Oral School of Domestic Arts Yarra City Council Australia’s untold History Project to Bendigo South East football tragedy Gwladys McLachlan College 1916–2016 Bettie Has a Doll Michele Matthews David Luxford Paul Kennedy

12 13 The Ithicans...the Ithican Not Quite Australian: How E-Book: Recalling They Answered the Call Victoria’s Accredited Philanthropic Society Temporary Migration is the Journey Sue Thompson Museums #MAP100 1916–2016 changing the Nation Lella Cariddi Rosemary Hanscombe George Paxinos Peter Mares This chic Italian migrant Rediscovering the Town has been keeping Aussies Visionary Life of Tilly Kangaroo Tower of Old Shire of Phillip Island Hall Vaults - 3D Objects stylish for over 60 years Aston Exhibit Remembrance Rates Books Indexing Kieran Davis & Jake Smith SBS Radio Italian Deborah Gould, Siobhan Yarrambat Historical Program - Data Entry Dennis and Gael Vincent Society Inc. Phillip Island District The remarkable Through Younger Eyes: Genealogy Society Inc. disappearance of Messrs Anzac Centenary We Remember 1917 Land Hunger: Gellibrand and Hesse - produced by Way Back Janet Hollingsworth Belfast, Portland Once Upon A Time What really happened When, with Michael www.historicalsociety. In Australia in 1837? Carmody and Russell W.H. Blakeley: Pioneer Saw port-fairy.com Carlo Oregila, SBS Radio Paul Michael F Donovan Goldsmith for the City of Maker, Farmer & Trade Glen Foster Greater Geelong Unionist One School’s Journey Remarkable Women Helen L Blakeley Local History News - Barbara Poustie Katie Norton Time Turners, Clunes Keeping Stonnington’s Clunes Neighbourhood The White Australia Nettle’: History Alive! Out of the Closets, Robert Whatmough: House women’s internationalism, Malvern Historical Into the Streets Pioneering Victorian peace, and the White Society Kathie Mayer, Jary Nemo, horticulturalist Towards a pre-history of Australia policy in the Lucinda Horrocks, Nick Jacinta Crealy disability sport in Victoria, interwar years Loyal In All: Centenary Henderson Australia Kate Laing of Coburg High School Scurry - The Man Who Got Matthew Klugman and 1916–2016 Pathways to Harrow Them Safely Off Gallipoli Rob Hess Wildwood…A little farm Elizabeth Grove and Melanie Y’Lang Donovan Anthony McAleer well tilled, Barry Wright Laura Donati Tawonga Remembers Paved with Good Shining a Light on the Boer Diane Edmondson Work Ready Program, Vijay Mafeking Square Intentions: Terra Nullius, War: Euroa’s Contribution Kuttapan and Karin Stahl Bright RSL Sub-Branch Aboriginal Land Rights Lynne Doree Transforming Victoria and Settler-Colonial Law 1894–1994 A Writing Life: Helen Major Mercer Hannah Robert Shire of Alexandra - John M Wilkins OAM Garner and Her Work, Chris Ganly Past Presidents Bernadette Brennan Picturing and Re-picturing David Hibbert Ubiquitous and Necessary: The Mill: Experiments in Bonegilla Murrindindi Shire Council Australia’s Mechanics’ Written in Stone, Barbara Theatre and Community Bruce Pennay Institutes and schools of Poustie Meredith Roger Some significant Women art: A Research Guide Play On!: The Hidden of Portland and Victoria’s yallambie.wordpress.com, Pam Baragwanath & Ian McLachlan Mornington Football History of Women’s South West Ken James Disaster Commemoration Australian Rules Football Bernard Wallace Wildwood…A little farm Mornington & District Brunette Lenkic & UFTG CFA 90th Birthday well tilled Historical Society Rob Hess St Arnaud History Upper Ferntree Gully CFA Mosaic Wall Barry Wright Murrabit Town The PMM Journal St Arnaud Neighbourhood Unique Storyboard Work Ready Program Heritage Walk Paynesville Maritime House -(NWCG) Vijay Kuttapan and Murrabit & District Museum Inc. North Wangaratta Karin Stahl Heritage Group Inc. The Story of Australia’s Community Group Police Lock-Up Cells & People: The Rise and Rise A Writing Life: Helen The Mystery of Memorabilia Display of a New Australia A Victorian Silhouette Garner and Her Work Fairyland, Kew Numurkah & District Geoffrey Blainey Erin Santamaria, Sovereign Bernadette Brennan James Nicolas Historical Society Inc. Hill Museums Association Tales from Rat City Written in Stone Newstead District Quarry and Stone https://talesfromratcity. Barbara Poustie Then & Now Research Methods com Derek Reid Susan Walter Dr David Waldron yallambie.wordpress.com Ian McLachlan

14 15 Established in 1999, the Victorian Community History Awards are held annually to recognise the contributions made by Victorians in the preservation of the State’s fascinating history.

The Victorian Community History Awards are presented by Public Record Office Victoria in partnership with the Royal Historical Society of Victoria 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 2017 Awards ceremony was held during History Week on Monday 16 October at the Arts Centre Pavilion in Melbourne.

Start planning your project for 2018 and uncover your local history today.

To find out more about the Victorian Community History Awards visit: http://www.historyvictoria.org.au/programs/victorian-community-history-awards

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Front image cover: Student bank at Macleod High School. Public Record Office Victoria. VPRS 8935/P1, Unit 3, Item 180