Ballarat Heritage Services Explained

Ballarat Heritage Services
Type:Publishing House; historical research
Genre:History Education
Foundation:Ballarat, Australia
Founder:Clare Gervasoni, Dorothy Wickham, Wayne Phillipson
Location City:Ballarat
Location Country:Australia
Services:Publishing books, curatorial and heritage interpretation, historical research
Homepage:http://www.ballaratheritage.com.au

Ballarat Heritage Services, also known as BHS Publishing, is an Australian publisher in Ballarat, Victoria. It was founded in 1998 by Clare Gervasoni, Dorothy Wickham and Wayne Phillipson, to promote Victorian local and family history in historical gold mining towns of the Victorian gold rush. It also distributes historical and specialist publications which are difficult to locate.[1] [2]

Ballarat Heritage Services published The Eureka Encyclopaedia, an encyclopaedia of the Eureka Rebellion written by Justin Corfield, Wickham and Gervasoni. The Encyclopaedia won the Victorian Community History Awards.[3]

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  1. Web site: Ballarat Heritage Services - About us . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20091013083541/http://www.ballaratheritage.com.au/aboutus/aboutus.html . 2009-10-13 . 2009-12-28.
  2. Web site: Home .
  3. Web site: History Victoria Victorian Community History Awards . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070927202944/http://www.historyvictoria.org.au/vcha.htm . 2007-09-27 . 2007-11-26.