2008 NSW Premier’s History Awards
and
History Fellowships Winners Announced
The winners of the 2008 NSW Premier’s History Awards, the 2008 Indigenous History Fellowship and the 2008 NSW History Fellowship were announced by the Premier and Minister for the Arts, the Honourable Nathan Rees MP, on 27 October 2008.
The Premier’s History Awards were first presented in 1997 to honour distinguished achievement by Australian historians. They have a total value of $90,000.
The biennial Indigenous History Fellowship was first presented in 1998. It is to assist a person living in New South Wales to research and produce a work on a subject of historical interest relating the New South Wales form an Indigenous point of view.
The NSW History Fellowship was first presented in 1990. It 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. It is worth $20,000.
WINNERS:
THE AUDIO/VISUAL HISTORY PRIZE ($15,000)
Tony Wright, Paul Rudd, Matthew Thomason and Wain Fimeri
Captain Cook: obsession and discovery
Film Australia, Cook Films, Ferns Productions, South Pacific Pictures, December Films, ABC
THE AUSTRALIAN HISTORY PRIZE ($15,000)
Paul Ham
Vietnam: the Australian war
HarperCollinsPublishers Australia Pty Ltd
THE COMMUNITY AND REGIONAL HISTORY PRIZE ($15,000)
Dianne Johnson, in collaboration with the residents of the Gully and their descendants
Sacred Waters: the story of the Blue Mountains Gully Traditional Owners
Halstead Press
THE GENERAL HISTORY PRIZE ($15,000)
Michael A. McDonnell
The Politics of War: Race, Class and Conflict in Revolutionary Virginia
University of North Carolina Press
THE YOUNG PEOPLE’S HISTORY PRIZE ($15,000)
Robert Lewis and Tim Gurry
Australians in the Vietnam War
Ryebuck Media Pty Ltd
THE JOHN AND PATRICIA WARD HISTORY PRIZE ($15,000)
Christina Twomey
Australia’s Forgotten Prisoners: civilians interned by the Japanese in World War Two
Cambridge University Press
THE 2008 INDIGENOUS HISTORY FELLOWSHIP ($20,000)
Suzanne Ingram
THE 2008 NSW HISTORY FELLOWSHIP ($20,000)
Christine Cheater