Prizes and Awards
> Max Kelly Medal
The History Council fosters excellence in history through a program of prizes and awards.
Max Kelly Medal
The Max Kelly Medal plus a prize of $500 is awarded annually to a ‘beginning’ historian for a work of excellence in any aspect of Australian history. The Medal was established as a tribute to Associate Professor Maxwell John Kelly (1935-1996), the first elected President of the History Council, who died suddenly in 1996.
The History Council of NSW is currently inviting nominations for the 2009 Max Kelly Medal. To enter, download and complete the entry form in accordance with the rules and submit it with three copies of the nominated work to the History Council of NSW.
Nominations close 15 December 2008.
Click here to download the entry form.
Previous winners
2008 Grant Mansfield,
“ The Costs of War: patriotism and price-fixing during the opening months of the Great War in Australia”
Judges’ Report and Citation for the winning entry
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2007 Timothy Castle, ‘Watching Them Hang: Capital Punishment and Public Support in Colonial New South Wales, 1826-1836’
Judges’ Report and Citation for the winning entry
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2006 Emily Pollnitz, ‘Romancing the Australian parlour: Passion, patriarchy and genteel love songs, 1880 – 1900’
Judges’ Report and Citation for the winning entry
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2005 Janet Butler, ‘Journey into War: A Woman’s Diary’
Judges’ Report and Citation for the winning entry
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2004 Melissa Bellanta, ‘Raiders of the Lost Civilisation, Or, Fabulating the Australian Desert, 1890-1908’
Judges’ Report and Citation for the winning entry
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2003 Dr Helen McDonald, University of Melbourne
2002 Clare Alice Wright, University of Melbourne
2001 The Medal was not awarded.
2000 Claire Hooker, University of Sydney
1999 Melissa Harper, University of Sydney
1998 Jacinta Feltis, University of Sydney
1997 Amanda Card, University of Sydney
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