New South Wales Premier's History Awards
The NSW Premier’s History Awards honour distinguished achievement in the interpretation of history, through both the written word and non-print media by Australian citizens and permanent residents.[1]
History
The State Government of New South Wales, Australia established the Premier's History Awards in 1997.[2] In 2005 the name of the awards was changed to NSW History Awards.[3] The awards are presented annually and are managed by the State Library of NSW, in association with Arts NSW.[4]
Categories
The following awards, each of $15,000 are offered:
- Australian History Prize for a major published book or e-book on Australian history.
- General History Prize for a major published book or e-book on international history.
- Community and Regional History Prize for a published book or e-book that makes a significant contribution to the understanding of community. institutional, urban or regional history in New South Wales.
- Young People's History Prize for a published book or e-book, film, television or radio program, CD-ROM, DVD, or website - fiction or non-fiction - that increases the understanding and appreciation of history by children and young adults.
- Multimedia History Prize for an Australian historian's interpretation of an historical subject using non-print media.[5]
- John and Patricia Ward History prize to encourage the use of archives in the writing of history.[6]
The Australian History Prize
In 2014, an Australian Military History Prize was announced. Mike Carlton was the winner of this sub-category for his book First Victory (published by Random House).[7]
Year | Author | Title | Publisher |
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2014 | Joan Beaumont | Broken Nation: Australians in the Great War | Allen & Unwin[7] |
2013 | Janet Butler | Kitty’s War: The remarkable wartime experiences of Kit McNaughton | University of Queensland Press[8] |
2012 | Russell McGregor | Indifferent Inclusion: Aboriginal People and the Australian Nation | Aboriginal Studies Press[9] |
2011 | Penny Russell | Savage or Civilised?: Manners in Colonial Australia | UNSW Press[10] |
2010 | Bain Attwood | Possession: Batman's Treaty and the Matter of History | Melbourne University Publishing[11] |
2009 | Robin Gerster | Travels in Atomic Sunshine: Australia and the Occupation of Japan | Scribe |
2008 | Paul Ham | Vietnam: The Australian War | HarperCollins |
2007 | Libby Robin | How a Continent Created a Nation | UNSW Press |
2006 | Richard Broome | Aboriginal Victorians: a History Since 1800 | Allen & Unwin |
2005 | Eileen Chanin and Steven Miller, with an introductory essay by Judith Pugh | Degenerates and Perverts: The 1939 Herald Exhibition of French and British Contemporary Art | Miegunyah Press at Melbourne University Publishing |
2004 | Stuart Macintyre and Anna Clark | The History Wars | Melbourne University Publishing |
2003 | James Bowen and Margarita Bowen | The Great Barrier Reef: History, Science, Heritage | Melbourne University Publishing |
2002 | Nadia Wheatley | The Life and Myth of Charmian Clift | HarperCollinsPublishers |
2001 | Tim Bonyhady | The Colonial Earth | Miegunyah Press at Melbourne University Publishing |
2000 | Peter Spearrit | Sydney's Century: A History | UNSW Press |
1999 | K.S. Inglis | Sacred Places: War Memorials in the Australian Landscape | Melbourne University Publishing |
1998 | Anne Whitehead | Paradise Mislaid: In Search of the Australian Tribe of Paraguay | University of Queensland Press |
1997 | Heather Goodall | Invasion to Embassy: Land in Aboriginal Politics in NSW, 1770-1972 | Allen & Unwin |
The General History Prize
Year | Author | Title | Publisher |
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2014 | John Gascoigne | Encountering the Pacific in the Age of Enlightenment | Cambridge University Press[7] |
2013 | Saliha Belmessous | Assimilation and Empire: Uniformity in the French and British Colonies, 1541-1954 | Oxford University Press[8] |
2012 | Tim Bonyhady | Good Living Street: The Fortunes of My Viennese Family | Allen & Unwin[12] |
2011 | Shane White, Stephen Garton, Stephen Robertson and Graham White | Playing the Numbers: Gambling in Harlem Between the Wars | Harvard University Press[10] |
2010 | Lisa Ford | Settler Sovereignty: Jurisdiction and Indigenous People in America and Australia, 1788-1836 | Harvard University Press[11] |
2009 | Warwick Anderson | The Collectors of Lost Souls: Turning Kuru Scientists into Whitemen | Johns Hopkins University Press |
2008 | Michael A. McDonnell | The Politics of War: Race, Class and Conflict in Revolutionary Virginia | University of North Carolina Press |
2007 | Christopher Clark | Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947 | Harvard University Press |
2006 | R. J. B. Bosworth | Mussolini’s Italy: Life Under the Dictatorship 1915-1945 | Allen Lane/Penguin Books |
2005 | Sally Neighbour | In the Shadow of Swords: on the trail of terrorism from Afghanistan to Australia | Harper Collins Publishers |
2004 | Edward Duyker | Citizen Labillardière: A Naturalist’s Life in Revolution and Exploration 1755–1834 | The Miegunyah Press at Melbourne University Publishing |
2003 | David Garrioch | The Making of Revolutionary Paris | University of California Press |
2002 | Ruth Wajnryb | The Silence: How Tragedy Shapes Talk | Allen & Unwin |
2001 | Rowena Lennox | Fighting Spirit of East Timor: The Life of Martinho da Costa Lopes | Pluto Press Australia |
2000 | Anna Lanyon | Malinche's Conquest | Allen & Unwin |
1999 | Inga Clendinnen | Reading the Holocaust | The Text Publishing Company |
1998 | Marsden Hordern | King of the Australian Coast: the Work of Phillip Parker King in the Mermaid and Bathurst 1817-1822 | Melbourne University Press |
1997 | Patricia Jalland | Death in the Victorian Family | Oxford University Press |
The Community and Regional History Prize
Year | Author | Title | Publisher |
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2014 | Ian Hoskins | Coast: A History of the New South Wales Edge | NewSouth[7] |
2013 | Patti Miller | The Mind of a Thief | Queensland University Press[8] |
2012 | Deborah Beck | ''Set in Stone: A History of the Cell Block Theatre | UNSW Press |
2011 | Stephen Gapps | Cabrogal to Fairfield City: A History of a Multicultural Community | Fairfield City Council[10] |
2010 | Pauline Curby | Randwick | Randwick Municipal Council[11] |
2009 | David Bollen | Up on the Hill: A History of St Patrick's College | UNSW Press |
2008 | Dianne Johnson | Sacred Waters: the story of the Blue Mountains Gully Traditional Owners | Halstead Press |
2007 | Regina Ganter | Mixed Relations: Asian Aboriginal Contact in North Australia | University of Western Australia Press |
2006 | Maria Nugent | Botany Bay: Where Histories Meet | Allen & Unwin |
2005 | Joe Hajdu | Samurai in the Surf: the arrival of the Japanese on the Gold Coast in the 1980s | Pandanus Books |
2004 | Patricia Crawford and Ian Crawford | Contested Country: A History of the Northcliffe Area, Western Australia | University of Western Australia Press |
2003 | Erik Eklund | Steel Town: The Making and Breaking of Port Kembla | Melbourne University Publishing |
2002 | John Bailey | The White Divers of Broome: the true story of a fatal experiment | Pan Macmillan Australia Pty Ltd, 2001 |
2001 | Carolyn Wadley Dowley | Through Silent Country | Fremantle Arts Centre Press |
2000 | Sherry Morris | Wagga Wagga: A History | Bobby Graham Publishers for Wagga Wagga City Council |
1999 | Janet McCalman | Sex and Suffering : Women's Health and a Women's Hospital : the Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne, 1856 - 1996 | Melbourne University Press, 1998)[13] |
1998 | Grace Karskens | The Rocks: Life in Early Sydney | Melbourne University Press |
1997 | Christopher Cunningham | The Blue Mountains Rediscovered | Kangaroo Press |
The Young People's History Prize
(known as the Children's History Prize until 2002)
Year | Author | Title | Publisher |
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2014 | Nadia Wheatley, illustrated by Ken Searle | Australians All | Allen & Unwin[7] |
2013 | Jackie French | Pennies for Hitler | HarperCollins Publishers[8] |
2012 | Stephanie Owen Reeder | Amazing Grace: An Adventure at Sea | National Library of Australia |
2011 | Kirsty Murray | India Dark | Allen & Unwin |
2010 | Jackie French | The Night They Stormed Eureka | HarperCollins |
2009 | Anthony Hill | Captain Cook's Apprentice | Penguin |
2008 | Robert Lewis and Tim Gurry | Australians in the Vietnam War | Ryebuck Media |
2007 | John Nicholson | Songlines and Stone Axes | Allen & Unwin |
2006 | Pamela Freeman | The Black Dress: Mary MacKillop’s Early Years | Black Dog Books |
2005 | Allan Baillie | My Story: Riding with Thunderbolt, the diary of Ben Cross, Northern NSW, 1865 | Scholastic Press: an imprint of Scholastic Australia Pty Ltd |
2004 | David Hollinsworth | They Took the Children | Working Title Press in association with Scholastic Australia |
2003 | Alan Tucker | My Story: The Bombing of Darwin, The Diary of Tom Taylor | Scholastic Press, Scholastic Australia |
2002 | Papunya School | Papunya School Book of Country and History | Allen & Unwin |
2001 | No award | ||
2000 | Gael Jennings and Roland Harvey (illus.) | Sick As: Bloody Moments in the History of Medicine | Roland Harvey Books |
1999 | No award | ||
1998 | Bruce Scates and Raelene Frances | Women and the Great War | Cambridge University Press |
1997 | Jennifer Lawless, Kate Cameron and Carmel Young | Unlocking the Past: Preliminary Studies in the Ancient World | Nelson ITP |
State Records - John and Patricia Ward History Prize
This prize was first awarded in 2002 to encourage the use of archives in the writing of history. The State Record established the prize in recognition of the contribution to history and archives of NSW by John and Patricia Ward.[14]
Year | Author | Title | Publisher |
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2008 | Christina Twomey | Australia's Forgotten Prisoners: Civulians Interned by the Japanese in World War Two | Cambridge University Press |
2007 | Klaus Neumann | In the Interest of National Security: Civilian Internment in Australia | National Archives of Australia |
2006 | Gwenda Tavan | The Long, Slow Death of White Australia | Scribe Publications Pty Ltd |
2005 | Tony Roberts | Frontier Justice: a history of the Gulf Country to 1900 | UQP |
2004 | Bain Attwood | Rights for Aborigines | Allen & Unwin |
2003 | David Kent and Norma Townsend | The Convicts of the Eleanor: Protest in Rural England; New Lives in Australia | The Merlin Press Ltd. [UK] and Pluto Press Australia |
2002 | Thom Blake | A Dumping Ground: A History of the Cherbourg Settlement | UQP |
Multimedia History Prize
(known as The Audio/Visual History Prize until 2009)
Year | Creator | Title | Publisher |
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2014 | Michelle Arrow, Catherine Freyne and Timothy Nicastri | Public Intimacies: The 1974 Royal Commission on Human Relationships | ABC Radio National Hindsight[7] |
2013 | Scott Hill and Jacqui Newling | The Cook and the Curator: Eat Your History | Sydney Living Museums[8] |
2012 | Catherine Freyne and Phillip Ulman | Tit for Tat: The Story of Sandra Wilson | Hindsight, ABC Radio National |
2011 | Sonia Bible | Recipe for Murder | Stray Dog Pictures Pty Ltd for Jumping Dog Productions |
2009 | Rachel Landers and Dylan Bowen | A Northern Town | Pony Films |
2008 | Paul Rudd, Matthew Thomason, Wain Fimeri and Anthony Wright | Captain Cook: Obsession and Discovery | Film Australia, Cook Films, Ferns Productions, South Pacific Films, December Films, ABC |
2007 | John Hughes | The Archive Project: The Realist Film Unit in Cold War Australia | Early Works - ABC TV |
2006 | Rolf de Heer | Ten Canoes | Vertigo Productions/Adelaide Festival of Arts |
2005 | Trevor Graham | Hula Girls | (Electric Pictures Pty Ltd, 2005) |
2004 | Tom Murray in collaboration with the Dhuruputjpi and Yilpara communities | Dhakiyarr vs the King | Film Australia |
2003 | Marée Delofski | The Trouble With Merle | Film Australia in association with SeeView Pictures |
2002 | Anita Heiss and Terri McCormack | Website: Barani (Yesterday) - Indigenous history of Sydney | City of Sydney Web Team and History Program in conjunction with CyberDreaming, 2002 |
2001 | Michael Cummins | Thomson of Arnhem Land | Film Australia in association with John Moore (director/producer), Martin Thiele (archival researcher) and Michael McMahon (producer) |
2000 | Martin Thomas | This is Jimmy Barker | ABC Radio Audio Arts |
1999 | Michelle Rayner | Passes and Pathways | ABC Radio National |
1998 | Trevor Graham (director & co-producer) | Mabo: Life of an Island Man | Film Australia |
1997 | Bill Bunbury | Unfinished Business, episodes 1-6 Hindsight, | ABC Radio |
The Centenary of Federation Prize, 2001
The centenary award was created as a one-off presentation, the prize being sponsored by the NSW Centenary of Federation Committee. This award was for a "major work" relating to the Australian Federation period focussing on the political, social and cultural issues of Australia at that time.[15]
Winner
Author | Title | Publisher |
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Geoffrey Bolton | Edmund Barton | Allen & Unwin |
Shortlisted
Author | Title | Publisher |
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Peter Botsman | The Great Constitutional Swindle: a citizen's view of the Australian Constitution | Pluto Press, Australia |
Helen Irving | The Centenary Companion to Australian Federation | Cambridge University Press |
See also
- Australian literature
- List of Australian literary awards
- Australian History Awards
- Victorian Community History Awards
- Northern Territory History Awards
- Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History
References
- ↑ "NSW Premier's History Awards". History Council NSW. Retrieved 10 December 2012.
- ↑ "Awards". Arts NSW. Archived from the original on 2007-07-10. Retrieved 2007-07-17.
- ↑ "Past Winners of the NSW History Awards". NSW History Awards 2005. ISSN 1832-9896.
- ↑ "The NSW Premier’s Literary Awards & NSW Premier’s History Awards". Retrieved 29 November 2012.
- ↑ New South Wales Premier's History Awards guidelines
- ↑ State Records NSW
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Winners announced for 2014 NSW Premier's History Awards". State Library of NSW. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "The NSW Premier’s History Awards". State Library of New South Wales. Retrieved 16 September 2013.
- ↑ "2012 NSW Premier's History Awards: Winners". State Library of New South Wales. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
- 1 2 3 Souris, George. "2011 Premier’s History Award Winners - Media Release" (PDF). New South Wales Government. Retrieved 7 December 2012.
- 1 2 3 "The New South Wales Premier’s History Awards - 2010 Winners". Retrieved 10 December 2012.
- ↑ "2012 NSW Premier's History Awards: Winners". State Library of NSW. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
- ↑ "NSW Premiers History Awards - Long message". ASA Council. Archived from the original on 2007-09-14. Retrieved 2007-07-18.
- ↑ "Media releases State Records John and Patricia Ward History Prize". NSW Government, Department of Commerce, State Records Authority for NSW. Archived from the original on 2007-08-29. Retrieved 2007-07-17.
- ↑ "NSW Premier’s History Awards 2001". NSW Ministry for the Arts. Archived from the original on 2007-08-30. Retrieved 2007-07-18.
External links
- Arts NSW
- 2001 NSW Premier's History Awards Arts NSW, (Retrieved 18 July 2007)
- 2003 Fellowships, Scholarships and Awards Arts NSW, (Retrieved 18 July 2007)
- 2004 Fellowships, Scholarships and Awards Arts NSW, (Retrieved 18 July 2007)
- 2006 NSW Premier’s History Awards & Fellowships Arts NSW, (Retrieved 17 July 2007)
- "Past Winners of the NSW History Awards". NSW History Awards 2005. ISSN 1832-9896.
- 2012 NSW Premier's History Awards State Library of New South Wales, (Retrieved 5 December 2012)