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 of Australia.[1]

History

The State Government of New South Wales, Australia established the Premier's History Awards in 1997, which were devised by members of the History Council of NSW including Max Kelly, Paul Ashton and Shirley Fitzgerald.[2] In 2005 the name of the awards was changed to NSW Premier's History Awards.[3] The awards are presented annually in early September and are managed by the State Library of NSW, in association with Create NSW (former 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.
  • NSW 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.
  • Digital History Prize for an Australian historian's interpretation of an historical subject using non-print media.[5]
  • Anzac Memorial Trustees Military History Prize for a work on the history of Australian veterans.[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]

YearAuthorTitlePublisher
2023 Alan Atkinson Elizabeth and John: The Macarthurs of Elizabeth Farm NewSouth Publishing[8]
2022 Alexis Bergantz French Connection: Australia’s Cosmopolitan Ambitions NewSouth Publishing[9]
2021 Grace Karskens People of the River: Lost Worlds of Early Australia Allen & Unwin[10]
2020 James Dunk Bedlam at Botany Bay NewSouth Publishing[11]
2019Meredith LakeThe Bible in Australia: A Cultural HistoryNewSouth Books[12]
2018Christina TwomeyThe Battle Within: POWs in Postwar AustraliaNewSouth Publishing[13]
2017Mark McKennaFrom the Edge: Australia’s Lost HistoriesMelbourne University Publishing[14]
2016Stuart MacintyreAustralia’s Boldest Experiment: War and Reconstruction in the 1940sNewSouth Books[15]
2015Alan AtkinsonThe Europeans in AustraliaUNSW Press[16]
2014Joan BeaumontBroken Nation: Australians in the Great WarAllen & Unwin[17]
2013Janet ButlerKitty's War: The remarkable wartime experiences of Kit McNaughtonUniversity of Queensland Press[18]
2012Russell McGregorIndifferent Inclusion: Aboriginal People and the Australian NationAboriginal Studies Press[19]
2011Penny RussellSavage or Civilised?: Manners in Colonial AustraliaUNSW Press[20]
2010Bain AttwoodPossession: Batman's Treaty and the Matter of HistoryMelbourne University Publishing[21]
2009Robin GersterTravels in Atomic Sunshine: Australia and the Occupation of JapanScribe
2008Paul HamVietnam: The Australian WarHarperCollins
2007Libby RobinHow a Continent Created a NationUNSW Press
2006Richard BroomeAboriginal Victorians: a History Since 1800Allen & Unwin
2005Eileen Chanin and Steven Miller, with an introductory essay by Judith PughDegenerates and Perverts: The 1939 Herald Exhibition of French and British Contemporary ArtMiegunyah Press at Melbourne University Publishing
2004Stuart Macintyre and Anna ClarkThe History WarsMelbourne University Publishing
2003James Bowen and Margarita BowenThe Great Barrier Reef: History, Science, HeritageMelbourne University Publishing
2002Nadia WheatleyThe Life and Myth of Charmian CliftHarperCollinsPublishers
2001Tim BonyhadyThe Colonial EarthMiegunyah Press at Melbourne University Publishing
2000Peter SpearritSydney's Century: A HistoryUNSW Press
1999K.S. InglisSacred Places: War Memorials in the Australian LandscapeMelbourne University Publishing
1998Anne WhiteheadParadise Mislaid: In Search of the Australian Tribe of ParaguayUniversity of Queensland Press
1997Heather GoodallInvasion to Embassy: Land in Aboriginal Politics in NSW, 1770–1972Allen & Unwin

The General History Prize

YearAuthorTitlePublisher
2023 Michael Laffan Under Empire: Muslim Lives and Loyalties Across the Indian Ocean World, 1775–1945 Columbia University Press[8]
2022 Mina Roces The Filipino Migration Experience: Global Agents of Change Cornell University Press[22]
2021 Luke Keogh The Wardian Case: How a Simple Box Moved Plants and Changed the World The University of Chicago Press and Kew Publishing[23]
2020 Kate Fullagar The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist: Three Lives in an Age of Empire Yale University Press[24]
2019 Christina Thompson Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia Harper[12]
2018Sean ScalmerOn the Stump: Campaign Oratory and Democracy in the United States, Britain, and AustraliaTemple University Press[13]
2017Sandra Wilson, Robert Cribb, Beatrice Trefalt & Dean AszkielowiczJapanese War Criminals: The Politics of Justice after the Second World WarColumbia University Press[14]
2016Ann McGrathIllicit Love: Interracial Sex and Marriage in the United States and Australia Nebraska University Press[25]
2015Warwick Anderson & Ian R MackayIntolerant Bodies: A Short History of AutoimmunityJohns Hopkins University Press[26]
2014John GascoigneEncountering the Pacific in the Age of EnlightenmentCambridge University Press[27]
2013Saliha BelmessousAssimilation and Empire: Uniformity in the French and British Colonies, 1541–1954Oxford University Press[18]
2012Tim BonyhadyGood Living Street: The Fortunes of My Viennese FamilyAllen & Unwin[28]
2011Shane White, Stephen Garton, Stephen Robertson and Graham WhitePlaying the Numbers: Gambling in Harlem Between the WarsHarvard University Press[20]
2010Lisa FordSettler Sovereignty: Jurisdiction and Indigenous People in America and Australia, 1788–1836Harvard University Press[21]
2009Warwick AndersonThe Collectors of Lost Souls: Turning Kuru Scientists into WhitemenJohns Hopkins University Press
2008Michael A. McDonnellThe Politics of War: Race, Class and Conflict in Revolutionary VirginiaUniversity of North Carolina Press
2007Christopher ClarkIron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947Harvard University Press
2006R. J. B. BosworthMussolini's Italy: Life Under the Dictatorship 1915–1945Allen Lane/Penguin Books
2005Sally NeighbourIn the Shadow of Swords: on the trail of terrorism from Afghanistan to AustraliaHarper Collins Publishers
2004Edward DuykerCitizen Labillardière: A Naturalist's Life in Revolution and Exploration 1755–1834The Miegunyah Press at Melbourne University Publishing
2003David GarriochThe Making of Revolutionary ParisUniversity of California Press
2002Ruth WajnrybThe Silence: How Tragedy Shapes TalkAllen & Unwin
2001Rowena LennoxFighting Spirit of East Timor: The Life of Martinho da Costa LopesPluto Press Australia
2000Anna LanyonMalinche's ConquestAllen & Unwin
1999Inga ClendinnenReading the HolocaustThe Text Publishing Company
1998Marsden HordernKing of the Australian Coast: the Work of Phillip Parker King in the Mermaid and Bathurst 1817–1822Melbourne University Press
1997Patricia JallandDeath in the Victorian FamilyOxford University Press

The NSW Community and Regional History Prize

Year Author Title Publisher
2023 Ian Hodges He Belonged to Wagga: The Great War, the AIF and returned soldiers in an Australian country town Australian Scholarly Publishing[8]
2022 Kate Holden The Winter Road: A Story of Legacy, Land, and a Killing at Croppa Creek Black Inc. Books[29]
2021 Matthew Colloff Landscapes of Our Hearts: Reconciling People and Environment Thames & Hudson Australia[30]
2020 Callum Clayton-Dixon Surviving New England: A History of Aboriginal Resistance and Resilience Through the First Forty Years of Colonial Apocalypse Nēwara Aboriginal Corporation[31]
2019Jon RhodesCage of GhostsDarkwood[32]
2018Paul IrishHidden in Plain View: The Aboriginal People of Coastal SydneyNewSouth Publishing[13]
2017Peter Hobbins, Ursula K Frederick & Anne ClarkeStories from the Sandstone: Quarantine Inscriptions from Australia’s Immigrant PastArbon Publishing[14]
2016Tanya EvansFractured Families: Life on the Margins in Colonial New South WalesUniversity of New South Wales Press[33]
2015Babette SmithThe Luck of the Irish : How a Shipload of Convicts Survived the Wreck of the Hive to Make a New Life in AustraliaAllen & Unwin[34]
2014Ian HoskinsCoast: A History of the New South Wales EdgeNewSouth[35]
2013Patti MillerThe Mind of a ThiefQueensland University Press[18]
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[20]
2010 Pauline Curby Randwick Randwick Municipal Council[21]
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
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[36]
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
2023 Emily Gale The Goodbye Year Text Publishing[8]
2022 Shaa Smith, Neeyan Smith, Uncle Bud Marshall, with Yandaarra including Sarah Wright, Lara Daley and Paul Hodge The Dunggiirr Brothers and the Caring Song of the Whale Allen & Unwin[37]
2021 Archie Roach Tell Me Why for Young Adults Simon & Schuster[38]
2020 Pierre-Jacques Ober, Jules Ober, and Felicity Coonan The Good Son: A Story from the First World War, Told in Miniature Candlewick Press[39]
2019 Alison Lloyd and Terry Denton The Upside-down History of Down Under Penguin[12]
2018Simon MitchellThe Fighting StingraysPenguin Random House Australia[13]
2017Christobel MattingleyMaralinga’s Long Shadow: Yvonne’s StoryAllen & Unwin[14]
2016 James Roy and Noël Zihabamwe One Thousand Hills Omnibus Books, Scholastic Australia[40]
2015 Ruth Starke and Robert Hannaford My Gallipoli Penguin Books Australia[41]
2014Nadia Wheatley, illustrated by Ken SearleAustralians AllAllen & Unwin[42]
2013Jackie FrenchPennies for HitlerHarperCollins Publishers[18]
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

Digital History Prize

(known as The Audio/Visual History Prize until 2009 and the Multimedia Prize until 2019)

Year Creator Title Publisher
2023 Rachel Perkins, Darren Dale, Jacob Hickey and Don Watson The Australian Wars, Episode 1 Blackfella Films[8]
2022 Katherine Biber, Loretta Parsley The Last Outlaws Impact Studios, the University of Technology Sydney[43]
2021 Laurence Billiet Freeman General Strike and Matchbox Pictures[44]
2020 Noëlle Janaczewska, Ros Bluett and Russell Stapleton Experiment Street — the true history of a city lane ABC Radio National: The History Listen[45]
2019 Guardian Australia The Killing Times Guardian Australia and the University of Newcastle Colonial Massacres Research Team[12]
2018Warwick Thornton and Brendan FletcherWe Don't Need a MapBarefoot Communications[13]
2017Adam ClulowThe Amboyna Conspiracy TrialRoy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media[14]
2016 Victoria Midwinter Pitt and Alan Erson Afghanistan: Inside Australia’s War Essential Media & Entertainment[46]
2015 Dan Goldberg and Margie Bryant Brilliant Creatures Mint Pictures & Serendipity Productions[47]
2014Michelle Arrow, Catherine Freyne and Timothy NicastriPublic Intimacies: The 1974 Royal Commission on Human RelationshipsABC Radio National Hindsight[48]
2013Scott Hill and Jacqui NewlingThe Cook and the Curator: Eat Your HistorySydney Living Museums[18]
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[49] Film Australia
2003 Marée Delofski The Trouble With Merle Film Australia in association with SeeView Pictures
2002 Anita Heiss and Terri McCormack Barani: Sydney's Aboriginal History (website)[50] 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

Anzac Memorial Trustees Military History Prize

Sponsored by the Anzac Memorial Trustees, this prize was first awarded in 2023.[6]

Year Author Title Publisher
2023 June Factor Soldiers and Aliens: Men in the Australian Army’s employment companies during World War II Melbourne University Publishing[8]

Former Categories

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.[51][52]

Year Author Title Publisher
2008 Christina Twomey Australia's Forgotten Prisoners: Civilians 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

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.[53]

Winner

Author Title Publisher
Geoffrey Bolton Edmund Barton Allen & Unwin

Shortlisted

Author Title Publisher
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

References

  1. "NSW Premier's History Awards". History Council NSW. Retrieved 10 December 2012.
  2. "Awards". Arts NSW. Archived from the original on 10 July 2007. Retrieved 17 July 2007.
  3. "Past Winners of the NSW History Awards". NSW History Awards 2005. ISSN 1832-9896.
  4. "The NSW Premier's Literary Awards & NSW Premier's History Awards". Retrieved 29 November 2012.
  5. New South Wales Premier's History Awards guidelines
  6. 1 2 "NSW Prem's History Awards adds $10,000 prize". Books+Publishing. 28 November 2022. Retrieved 7 September 2023.
  7. "2015 – Australian Military History Prize". State Library of NSW. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "NSW Premier's History Awards". State Library of NSW. 25 March 2020. Retrieved 7 September 2023.
  9. "Australian History Prize". State Library NSW. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
  10. "Australian History Prize". State Library of NSW. 3 September 2020. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
  11. "Australian History Prize". State Library of NSW. 25 March 2020. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
  12. 1 2 3 4 Guardian staff (30 August 2019). "Guardian Australia's The Killing Times wins prize in NSW premier's history awards". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
  13. 1 2 3 4 5 "Winners of the 2018 NSW Premier's History Awards announced | Books+Publishing". Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  14. 1 2 3 4 5 "Winners of the 2017 NSW Premier's History Awards announced". Books & Publishing. 4 September 2017. Retrieved 17 August 2021.
  15. "2016 – Australian History Prize". State Library of NSW. 27 July 2016. Retrieved 19 January 2017.
  16. "2015 – Australian History Prize". State Library of NSW. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
  17. "2014 – Australian History Prize". State Library of NSW. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
  18. 1 2 3 4 5 "The NSW Premier's History Awards". State Library of New South Wales. Retrieved 16 September 2013.
  19. "2012 NSW Premier's History Awards: Winners". State Library of New South Wales. Archived from the original on 7 December 2012. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
  20. 1 2 3 Souris, George. "2011 Premier's History Award Winners – Media Release" (PDF). New South Wales Government. Retrieved 7 December 2012.
  21. 1 2 3 "The New South Wales Premier's History Awards – 2010 Winners". Retrieved 10 December 2012.
  22. "General History Prize". State Library NSW. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
  23. "General History Prize". State Library of NSW. 4 September 2020. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
  24. "General History Prize". State Library of NSW. 2 April 2020. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
  25. "NSW Premier's History Awards 2016 winners announced". Booksellers and Publishers. 5 September 2016. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
  26. "2015 General History Prize". State Library of NSW. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
  27. "2014 General History Prize". State Library of NSW. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
  28. "2012 NSW Premier's History Awards: Winners". State Library of NSW. Archived from the original on 7 December 2012. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
  29. "NSW Community and Regional History Prize". State Library NSW. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
  30. "NSW Community and Regional History Prize". State Library of NSW. 3 September 2020. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
  31. "NSW Community and Regional History Prize". State Library of NSW. 2 April 2020. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
  32. "Cage of Ghosts by Jon Rhodes".
  33. Deborah, Rice (2 September 2016). "New South Wales Premier's History Awards recognise record of colonial poverty". ABC News. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
  34. "2015 – Community and Regional History Prize". State Library of NSW. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
  35. "2014 – Community and Regional History Prize". State Library of NSW. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
  36. "NSW Premiers History Awards – Long message". ASA Council. Archived from the original on 14 September 2007. Retrieved 18 July 2007.
  37. "Young People's History Prize". State Library NSW. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
  38. "Young People's History Prize". State Library of NSW. 3 September 2021. Retrieved 4 September 2021.
  39. "Young People's History Prize". State Library of NSW. 3 April 2020. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
  40. Morris, Linda (17 October 2016). "Roy collaborates with Rwandan refugee to write award-winning book". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
  41. "Winners announced for 2015 NSW Premier's History Awards". Booksellers and Publishers. 7 September 2015. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
  42. "2014 – Young People's History Prize". State Library of NSW. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
  43. "Digital History Prize". State Library NSW. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
  44. "Digital History Prize". State Library of NSW. 3 September 2021. Retrieved 4 September 2021.
  45. "Digital History Prize". State Library of NSW. 3 April 2020. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
  46. "Afghanistan: Inside Australia's War wins Multimedia History Prize". Retrieved 18 May 2017.
  47. "Brilliant Creatures wins Premier's Award". Mint Productions. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
  48. "2014 – Multimedia History Prize". State Library of NSW. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
  49. See Tuckiar v The King.
  50. Indigenous history of Sydney
  51. "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 29 August 2007. Retrieved 17 July 2007.
  52. State Records NSW
  53. "NSW Premier's History Awards 2001". NSW Ministry for the Arts. Archived from the original on 30 August 2007. Retrieved 18 July 2007.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.