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---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: NSW Premier's History Awards winners 2009 From: "Lindsay, Elaine" <elaine.lindsay@communities.nsw.gov.au> Date: Wed, October 28, 2009 11:12 am To: "mccarthy@mail.h-net.msu.edu" <mccarthy@mail.h-net.msu.edu> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The NSW Premier & Minister for the Arts announced the winners of the 2009 NSW Premier's History Awards and the NSW Archival Research Fellowship and NSW History Fellowship. Arts NSW website reference is http://www.arts.nsw.gov.au/NewsPublications/News/tabid/152/ItemID/75/View/Details/Default.aspx If you just want the brief details, info follows: 2009 NSW PREMIER'S HISTORY AWARDS WINNERS: The Australian History Prize ($15,000): Robin Gerster (Brunswick, Vic) for Travels in Atomic Sunshine: Australia and the Occupation of Japan - which details what life was like for the 20,000 Australian volunteer servicemen and families stationed in Hiroshima after WW II. The General History Prize ($15,000): Warwick Anderson (Surry Hills, NSW), for The Collectors of Lost Souls: Turning Kuru Scientists into Whitemen - an account of medical research into a deadly brain disease in Papua New Guinea. The Multimedia History Prize ($15,000): Rachel Landers (Avalon Beach, NSW) and Dylan Blowen (Avalon Beach, NSW) for A Northern Town - a documentary film which explores the history of race relations in the NSW town of Kempsey as seen through the Indigenous and non-Indigenous residents of an Indigenous-owned aged care facility. The NSW Community and Regional History Prize ($15,000): David Bollen (Goulburn, NSW) for Up on the Hill: a History of St Patrick's College, Goulburn - as well as detailing the college's 125-year history, it also explores the broader history of education and religion in Australia. The Young People's History Prize ($15,000): Anthony Hill (Yarralumla, ACT) for Captain Cook's Apprentice. Dr Caroline Ford (Petersham, NSW) was awarded the annual NSW Archival Research Fellowship, a $15,000 award which enables a NSW historian to make substantial use of the records collection of the State Records Authority of NSW to research an aspect of the State's history. Dr Ford will write a history of Sydney's relationship with its ocean foreshores, from the 1820s to the 1920s. Dr Janette Holcomb (Manilla, NSW) was awarded the annual NSW History Fellowship, a $20,000 award which enables a NSW historian to research and produce a work on a subject of historical interest relating to NSW. Dr Holcomb will write a book-length history of the early merchant families of Sydney during the period 1788-1850. Dr Elaine Lindsay Arts NSW Communities NSW
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