Victorian Community History Awards Winners 2008

The winners of the Victorian Community History Awards 2008 were announced on Saturday 28 may at Queens Hall Parliament House.

The overall winner was volume 6 of the Eaglehawk & District Pioneer Register prepared by Annette O'Donohue & Bev Hanson.

Collingwood Historical Society won an award for the Collingwood Plaques Project.

For a complete list of prizewinners in different categories and those awarded commendations go the Victoria Online - Victorian Local History Awards page.

Information about the Community History Awards plus previous winners can be located on the RHSV website - Victorian Community History Awards

RHSV Lecture - Explaining Alan Moorehead

RHSV Fellows Invitation Lecture - Explaining Alan Moorhead

Date: Tuesday 10 June 2008
Time: 5.15 pm (tea / coffee); 5.45 Lecture
Address: Royal Historical Society of Victoria, 239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne
Price: RHSV members - Free; non members $5.50

Alan Moorehead was arguably the first Australian writer to command a truly international audience. From the early 1940s until his death in 1983, his series of best-selling histories of the war in North Africa, his biographies of General Montgomery and of the atomic spies, and his books on Gallipoli, the Russian Revolution, and the European penetration of Africa (notably The White Nile) and of the Pacific (The Fatal Impact) won him an immense readership.
Many readers will recall also his books Cooper’s Creek and Darwin and the Beagle.

How was it that a run-of-the-mill Melbourne journalist became the doyen of British war correspondents 1941-1945?

How did a self-confessed failed novelist reinvent himself as a writer of popular history? And how did Moorehead himself account for these transformations?

Introducing a discussion of Alan Moorehead’s career and writings, John Lack will attempt an explanation of Moorehead’s phenomenal success, and assess his overall significance to Australian cultural development.

John Lack, who is a Senior Fellow in the School of Historical Studies at the University of Melbourne, is Victorian Section Editor of the Australian Dictionary of Biography, to which he has contributed the entry on Alan Moorehead.

Contact:
Phone: (03) 9326 9288
Email: office@historyvictoria.org.au
URL: http://www.historyvictoria.org.au/