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NSW Premier’s History Awards 2024 shortlists announced

Thursday, 8 August 2024   Books+Publishing
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The State Library of NSW (SLNSW) has announced the shortlists for the 2024 NSW Premier’s History Awards.

The shortlisted titles in each category are:

Australian history prize ($15,000)

  • Donald Horne: A life in the Lucky Country (Ryan Cropp, La Trobe University Press)
  • Bennelong & Phillip: A history unravelled (Kate Fullagar, Scribner)
  • Courting: An intimate history of love and the law (Alecia Simmonds, La Trobe University Press)

Highly commended: Science and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Tasman World: Popular phrenology in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand (Alexandra Roginski, Cambridge University Press); and Cruel Care: A history of children at our borders (Jordana Silverstein, Monash University Publishing).

General history prize ($15,000)

  • ‘A Bloody Difficult Subject’: Ruth Ross, te Tiriti o Waitangi and the making of history (Bain Attwood, Auckland University Press)
  • Virtue Capitalists: The rise and fall of the professional class in the Anglophone world, 1870–2008 (Hannah Forsyth, Cambridge University Press)
  • Systemic Silencing: Activism, memory, and sexual violence in Indonesia (Katharine McGregor, University of Wisconsin Press)

NSW regional and community history prize ($15,000)

  • Reaching Through Time: Finding my family’s stories (Shauna Bostock, A&U)
  • Bennelong & Phillip: A history unravelled (Kate Fullagar, Scribner)
  • The Road to Batemans Bay: Speculating on the South Coast during the 1840s depression (Alastair Greig, ANU Press)

Young people’s history prize ($15,000)

  • Our Country: Where history happened (Mark Greenwood, illus by Frané Lessac, Walker Books)
  • Two Sparrowhawks in a Lonely Sky (Rebecca Lim, A&U)
  • Country Town (Isolde Martyn & Robyn Ridgeway, illus by Louise Hogan, Ford Street)

Anzac Memorial trustees’ military history prize ($10,000)

  • Kriegies: The Australian airmen of Stalag Luft III (Kristen Alexander, self-published)
  • The Chipilly Six: Unsung heroes of the Great War (Lucas Jordan, NewSouth)
  • Flawed Hero: Truth, lies and war crimes (Chris Masters, A&U)

Digital history prize ($15,000)

  • The Giants (Rachael Antony & Laurence Billiet, General Strike & Matchbox Pictures)
  • The Dark Emu Story (Allan Clarke, Jacob Hickey, Darren Dale and Belinda Mravicic, Blackfella Films & ABC)
  • The Search for the Palace Letters (Daryl Dellora, Jenny Hocking & Sue Maslin, Film Art Media)

Highly commended: The Defenders (Matthew Bate, Closer Productions); and Liverpool Street, Darlinghurst (Nicole Cama, Nicholas Clark & Wing Pang, self-published).

Eleven judges considered 189 entries across the six prize categories. The panel is made up of a committee of academics, historians and other sector professionals who have been appointed by the premier, the arts minister or their delegates.

The winners will be announced on 6 September.

More information on the awards is available from the SLNSW website.

 

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