Winning history: Shortlists for the 2019 NSW Premier’s History Awards
The State Library of NSW has announced the shortlists for the 2019 NSW Premier’s History Awards. The winners will be announced at the Library as part of the launch of NSW History Week on Friday 30 August 2019.
Senior Judge, Dr Melissa Bellanta said of the awards:
“This year's NSW Premier's History Awards recognise the diversity as well as the quality of historical research in Australia: whether at the level of community history, in the innovative use of digital and audio visual mediums, or in research that presents provocative or transformative perspectives on the national and global past.”
Shortlists for the 2019 NSW Premier’s History Awards
Australian History Prize ($15,000) | Taking Liberty: Indigenous Rights and Settler Self-Government in Colonial Australia, 1830-1890 by Ann Curthoys and Jessie Mitchell, The Bible in Australia: A Cultural History: by Meredith Lake, Found in Translation: Many Meanings on a North Australian Mission by Laura Rademaker.
General History Prize ($15,000) | The Big Four: The Curious Past and Perilous Future of the Global Accounting Monopoly by Stuart Kells and Ian D Gow, Progressive New World: How Settler Colonialism and Transpacific Exchange Shaped American Reform by Marilyn Lake, Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia by Christina Thompson.
NSW Regional and Community History Prize ($15,000) | Callan Park, Hospital for the Insane by Sarah Luke, Hunter Wine: A History by Julie McIntyre and John Germov, Cage of Ghosts by Jon Rhodes.
Young People’s History Prize ($15,000) | Message in a Sock by Kaye Baillie and Narelda Joy, The Upside-down History of Down Under by Alison Lloyd and Terry Denton, I Am Sasha by Anita Selzer.
Digital History Prize ($15,000) | Guardian Australia’s series The Killing Times by Lorena Allam, Nick Evershed, Carly Earl, Paul Daley, Andy Ball, Ciaran O’Mahony, Jeremy Nadel and the University of Newcastle Colonial Massacres Research Team, The Making of Mardi Gras 1979-81 and Mardi Gras Supernova 2002-03 by Catherine Freyne, Scott McKinnon and Mark Don (The History Listen, ABC RN), Etched in Bone by Martin Thomas and Béatrice Bijon (Red Lily Productions/ Ronin Films).
Acknowledgement: Inspired by Meredith Lake’s The Bible in Australia: A Cultural History the image above is of a Bible Study Group at a Melbourne Church of England (1915). See acknowledgement page for full details.
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