Ballarat Heritage Services

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Ballarat Heritage Services
Company typePublishing House; historical research
GenreHistory Education
FoundedBallarat, Australia
FounderClare Gervasoni, Dorothy Wickham, Wayne Phillipson
Headquarters
Ballarat
,
Australia
ProductsBooks
ServicesPublishing books, curatorial and heritage interpretation, historical research
Website[1]

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. ^ "Ballarat Heritage Services - About us". Archived from the original on 2009-10-13. Retrieved 2009-12-28.
  2. ^ "Home".
  3. ^ "History Victoria Victorian Community History Awards". Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-11-26.

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