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2007	July
	The Cultural Heritage Unit acknowledges Dr Andrew Brown-May and Professor Shurlee Swain for winning the 2007 Victorian & Community Local History Award for Best Collaborative/Community Work for the Encyclopedia of Melbourne. The awards are sponsored by the Victorian Government and the Royal Historical Society of Victoria. For more information, go to: Information Victoria www.historyvictoria.org.au www.emelbourne.net.au
2006	December
	As a bookend to our activities in multimedia & digital scholarship, we will be hosting on 7/8 December this year the next meeting of ANZDEG (Australian and New Zealand Digital Encyclopedias Group), following on from a successful meeting in Wellington in December 2005. http://www.jod.id.au/anzdeg/index.php/Main_Page
	September
	Writing & Making Histories - students launch Shaft of Light Across the Land, a collection of essays on Australian peace movements since 1930. Feature article in the Education Age, 4 September 2006, "Riding on the peace train: Writing history, says Leigh Parry, is much more fun than just learning it". Honours (2003) graduate Kate Fielding - who presented her Honours thesis in graphic format - profiled on ABC Ace Day Jobs website. Kate is currently working on a history of the last 15 years of the Melbourne Metropolitan Fire Brigade.
	August
	Andrew Brown-May was awarded the prestigious 'Individual Contribution to Profile' in the 2006 Melbourne Awards at a gala ceremony at the Melbourne Town Hall on Melbourne Day, 31 August 2006. The next CHU Reading Group meets on Friday 11 August in the Jessie Webb Library 12-1pm. Email CHU for more details. Andrew Brown-May writes on 'Collision and Reintegration in a Missionary Landscape: The View from the Khasi Hills, India' in a new online publication P. Grimshaw & R. McGregor (eds), Collisions of cultures and identities: Settlers and indigenous peoples, University of Melbourne, Department of History, 2006. PhD student Leo Martin has been awarded a Nillumbik Shire Council Cultural Achievement Grant, acknowledging the importance of cultural landscape studies, and assisting in supporting his forthcoming research trip to the University of Oxford.
	July
	As part of our involvement in the Vice Chancellor's Strategic Initiative Fund Steering Committee "Future Melbourne", we have been involved in planning a series of public forums from July on the topics of The Suburbs, Fear & Loathing in the Suburbs, Urban Consolidation, Transport, & Health. Program available at http://www.abp.unimelb.edu.au/futuremelbourne MA candidate Claire Higgins completed a stint in Canberra where she secured an Australian War Memorial Research Scholarship. Claire reports on her experiences in Canberra as a recipient of the Australian War Memorial Annual Scholarship. Further information on AWM grants and scholarships. Staff, students and associates of the CHU & History Department presented papers at the Australian Historical Association Biennial Conference at the Australian National University in Canberra: Brown-May 1000 words on a picture: Tom Roberts, Allegro Con Brio Grimshaw 'Empire, Missions and Gender in the Asian-Pacific Region: A Case for Australian Exceptionalism?' Nichol The early Chinese Restaurant and 'White' Australia Simic What Are Ya? Towards a history of the western suburbs of Sydney Swain Traces in the Archives: Evidence of institutional abuse in surviving child welfare recordsWheeler ‘Who were yourfamily, dear?’ Issues in ‘doing’ local history Andrew Brown-May reflects on the compilation of The Encyclopedia of Melbourne in Meanjin, Cosmopolis: On Cities, Vol. 65, no. 2, 2006


	June
	Honours candidate Michael Taffe is researching Victoria’s Avenues of Honour and he finds that the best known, Ballarat’s Avenue of Honour, was by no means the first. He details the first two as those at Eurack, near Beeac in Victoria’s western district and at Sassafras on the Dandenong Tourist Road. Brief accounts of these two avenues are given in his article in Australian Garden History Vol. 17, No. 5 May/June 2006.
	May
	Two of our students - Public History Fieldwork (Mary Bereux) & History in the Field (Rebecca Mendelsohn) undertook their fieldwork placements at the PROV in 2005 and contributed research materials for the exhibition "People and Parliament: Landmark Decisions 1855-2006", on display at the Victorian Archives centre from December 2005-May 2006. The exhibition is also available as an online education resource at http://www.prov.vic.gov.au/peopleparliament/ "Public History — What public? Whose history?" Postgraduate seminar with Professor John Tosh, Tuesday 23 May in the Jessie Webb Library, 2-4pm.
	April
	The CHU continues its ongoing relationship with the City of Melbourne Arts & Culture programs, with exhibitions drawing on the city's Arts & Heritage Collection. The City Gallery exhibition Flush! A quest for Melbourne's best public toilets in Art, Architecture & History, curated by Andy Brown-May, architect Kirsty Fletcher & artist Nicki Adams, finished its run on 15 January. Public History MA student Caitlin Stone is curating an exhibition for the City Gallery, due to open in April, on the subject of her theses – Rubbish! Cleaning Melbourne's Streets.
	February
	CHU Director Associate Professor Alan Mayne was farewelled from the Department to take up his position at the Hawke Research Institute, and we extend our thanks to Alan for establishing the rubric of the unit and building up its research capacities — we look forward to future collaborations with him. Dr Andy Brown-May has assumed responsibilities as Director, and Dr Keir Reeves as Associate Director. Keir will also be taking up his 3-year postdoc in July (Historical studies in central Victoria's regional heritage 1834-1950). We also welcome Dr Cate Elkner to the CHU as Senior Researcher (part time). Cate completed her PhD in the Department in 2003, and subsequently worked as Project Officer Koorie Records at the Victoria Public Record Office.

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