NSW Premier's History Awards
2010 NSW Premier's History Awards and Fellowships
The winners of the 2010 NSW Premier's History Awards and Fellowships were announced by the Premier, Kiristina Keneally, at an elegant dinner at The Mint on Tuesday 26 October 2010. The History Council of NSW extends its congratulations to the winners.
The winners are as follows:
The General History Prize – $15,000
Dr Lisa Ford: Settler Sovereignty: Jurisdiction and Indigenous People in America and Australia,1788-1836. An account of how late eighteenth and early nineteenth century colonists negotiated both the contradictions and blunt violence resulting from settling in a land that somebody else called home.
The NSW Community and Regional History Prize – $15,000
Pauline Curby: Randwick.This book embraces the history of Randwick‟s local industry, sporting identities, suburban growth, crime, and the ongoing relationship between the area‟s Indigenous and European residents.
The Australian History Prize – $15,000
Dr Bain Attwood: Possession: Batman’s Treaty and the Matter of History. A meticulously researched and wide-ranging book that considers the only treaty document drawn up in Australia, between John Batman and the Kulin Nation, and the many stories about it.
The Multimedia History Prize – $15,000
Martin Butler and Bentley Dean: Contact. This documentary uses extraordinary footage of a group of Aboriginal women and children from the Martu people encountering a group of white men in the desert taking part in the Blue Streak rocket testing in Woomera.
The Young People’s History Prize – $15,000
Jackie French: The Night They Stormed Eureka. This novel combines the rigour of historical research and literary imagination to entrance young and old readers about the events surrounding the Eureka Stockade.
NSW Archival Research Fellowship – $15,000
Amanda Kaladelfos
The Fellowship winner will be using the funds to research and write a history of capital punishment in NSW from 1855 to 1939, when the last person was hanged.
NSW History Fellowship – $20,000
Pauline Curby
This year‟s winner will examine the social dislocation suffered by World War I returned servicemen and its link to public debate around the death penalty in NSW.
Indigenous History Fellowship (biennial) - $20,000
Robert Evitt
The Fellowship recipient in 2010 will examine the impact of traditional Aboriginal fire regimes on biodiversity, using a comparative study between NSW and Far North Queensland.
For more information and to view the comments from the Premier about the awards visit the Arts NSW website.
NSW Premier's History Awards
The Premier's History Awards were established by the New South Wales Government in 1997 to honour distinguished achievement in history by Australians. The awards are conducted by Arts NSW in association with the History Council of NSW. There are six prizes awarded each year, including:
The Australian History Prize for a major work of Australian history ($15,000)
The General History Prize for a work of history on a subject of broad significance ($15,000)
The Community and Regional History Prize for a significant contribution to the understanding of Australian community, institutional, urban or regional history in NSW ($15,000)
The Young People's History Prize for a book, film, television or radio program, CD-ROM, DVD or website which increases the historical understanding of children and young adults ($15,000)
The Multimedia History Prize for the presentation of history utilising non-print media (including film, television, radio, CD-ROM, website or digital video disc) ($15,000)
Winners receive commemorative medallions in addition to their prize money.
The primary focus for these awards is the promotion of excellence in the interpretation of history, through both the written word and non-print media. The main assessment criteria are the quality of research, scholarship and analysis, and the work's contribution to a new understanding of history in the category in which it is nominated.
NSW History Fellowship ($20,000)
The NSW History Fellowship is offered annually by the Government to assist a person living in New South Wales to research and produce a work on a subject of historical interest relating to New South Wales.
NSW Archival Research Fellowship ($15,000)
The NSW Archival Research Fellowship is offered annually by the Government to assist a person living in New South Wales to complete an innovative and quality research project that makes substantial use of the records collection of the State Records Authority of NSW.
Enquiries and requests for nomination forms should be made to:
Program Support
Arts NSW
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SYDNEY NSW 2000
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SYDNEY SOUTH NSW 1235
Telephone: (02) 9228 5533
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(within NSW)
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Email: mail@arts.nsw.gov.au
