Announcement of the NSW Premier’s History Award – the below is a quote from the State Library of NSW website.
Statement from the State Library about the announcement:
Announcing the shortlists for the 2023 NSW Premier’s History Awards
The Premier of NSW, The Hon. Chris Minns MP, has announced the shortlists for the 2023 NSW Premier’s History Awards.
Mr Minns said: “These important awards help to continue our long, rich and diverse history of storytelling. And our historians play a critical part in understanding, questioning and generating fresh perspectives on Australia’s past and providing a guide for the future.”
Eleven judges considered 186 entries across the six prize categories.
Senior Judge Professor Kate Fullagar said: “The shortlists reveal compelling creativity and rich diversity among history-makers in Australia today. Our expertise in world history, digital history, military and children’s history, as well as in our own local and national histories, is reassuring and inspiring.”
State Librarian John Vallance said: “Libraries and archives provide the raw material for historian’s work. The Premier’s History Awards each year show us how rich are the returns on our investment. This year we are delighted to add the Anzac Memorial Trustees History Prize to what is already a very distinguished group of honours. I encourage you to read the works on the shortlists, and then join us on the 7th of September at the State Library.”
The winners will be announced at an award ceremony at the State Library of NSW on Thursday 7 September from 6pm. This is a free event and registrations will open on our website soon.
The NSW Premier’s History Awards are administered by the State Library of NSW in association with Create NSW. We are pleased to acknowledge the support of the History Council of NSW and in 2023 the Anzac Memorial Trustees for their establishment and sponsorship of the Anzac Memorial Trustees Military History Prize.
The Shortlist
The Australian History Prize ($15,000) is for a major work of non-fiction, published in book or ebook form, on Australian history. Entries should address subjects of national significance.
Elizabeth and John: The Macarthurs of Elizabeth Farm by Alan Atkinson
Dreamers and Schemers: A Political History of Australia by Frank Bongiorno
Political Lives: Australian Prime Ministers and Their Biographers by Chris Wallace
Masked Histories by Leah Lui-Chivizhe
The Digital History Prize ($15, 000, formerly the Multimedia History Prize) for an Australian historian’s interpretation of an historical subject, using non-print media. Entries could include a feature-length fiction film, a documentary film, a documentary for radio or television, a DVD, website, podcast, application for mobile/handheld device or other form of multimedia. This award will be judged on the quality of historical research and analysis, artistic merit and effective and appropriate use of the medium. The production should communicate its subject in ways that engage and enlighten audiences and should encourage an interest in and appreciation for history.
Still We Rise by Anna Grieve and John Harvey
The Australian Wars, Episode One by Rachel Perkins, Darren Dale, Jacob
Ayahs and Amahs: Transcolonial Journeys byLauren Samuelsson
The General History Prize ($15,000) is for a major work of non-fiction, published in book or ebook form, on international history that is of national or international significance.
Visions of Nature: How Landscape Photography Shaped Settler Colonialism by Jarrod Hore
Under Empire: Muslim Lives and Loyalties Across the Indian Ocean World , 1775-1945 by Michael Laffan
Singing the News of Death: Execution Ballads in Europe 1500-1900 by Una McIlvenna
NSW Community and Regional History Prize
The New South Wales Community and Regional History Prize ($15,000) is for a major work of non-fiction, published in book or eBook form, that makes a significant contribution to understanding of any aspect of the history of New South Wales, including community, regional, urban, institutional or local histories. Books which do not relate to NSW are ineligible for this prize.
The Naturalist: The Remarkable Life of Allan Riverstone McCulloch by Brendan Atkins
He Belonged to Wagga: The Great War, the AIF and the returned soldiers in an Australian Town by Ian Hodges
Whitefella Way by John Rhodes
The Young People’s History Prize ($15,000) is for a published book or ebook, publically screened or broadcasted film, television or radio program, DVD, podcast or website — fiction or non-fiction. The work should increase the understanding and appreciation of history by children and/or young adults.
The Goodbye Year by Emily Gale
Running with Ivan by Suzanne Leal
The Wearing of the Green by Claire Saxby
ANZAC Memorial Trustees Military History Prize
The Anzac Memorial Trustees Military History Prize ($10,000) is for a work of non-fiction published as a book or e-book, publicly released or made available as a broadcast film, television or radio program, DVD, podcast, website or application for mobile/handheld devices, on the involvement of Australians in wars, campaigns, battles and/or peacekeeping operations represented in the Anzac Memorial’s Hall of Service.
The Scrap Iron Flotilla: Five Valiant Destroyers and the Australian War in the Mediterranean by Mike Carlton
Soldiers and Aliens: Men in the Australian Army’s Employment Companies During World War II by June Factor
He Belonged to Wagga: The Great War, the AIF and the returned soldiers in an Australian Town by Ian Hodges
The War Game: Australian War Leadership from Gallipoli to Iraq by David Horner
The winners will be announced at the State Library on the 7th of September.
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