New South Wales Premier's History Awards

The NSW Premier's History Awards honour distinguished achievement in the interpretation of history, through both the written word and non-print media by Australian citizens and permanent residents of Australia.

History

The State Government of New South Wales, Australia established the Premier's History Awards in 1997. In 2005 the name of the awards was changed to NSW Premier's History Awards. The awards are presented annually in early September and are managed by the State Library of NSW, in association with Create NSW.

Categories

The following awards, each of $15,000 are offered:

Australian History Prize for a major published book or e-book on Australian history.
General History Prize for a major published book or e-book on international history.
NSW Community and Regional History Prize for a published book or e-book that makes a significant contribution to the understanding of community. institutional, urban or regional history in New South Wales.
Young People's History Prize for a published book or e-book, film, television or radio program, CD-ROM, DVD, or website – fiction or non-fiction – that increases the understanding and appreciation of history by children and young adults.
Digital History Prize for an Australian historian's interpretation of an historical subject using non-print media.
John and Patricia Ward History prize to encourage the use of archives in the writing of history.
The Australian History Prize

In 2014, an Australian Military History Prize was announced. Mike Carlton was the winner of this sub-category for his book First Victory.

Year	Author	Title	Publisher
2019	Meredith Lake	The Bible in Australia: A Cultural History	NewSouth Books
2018	Christina Twomey	The Battle Within: POWs in Postwar Australia	NewSouth Publishing
2017	Mark McKenna	From the Edge: Australia’s Lost Histories	Melbourne University Publishing
2016	Stuart Macintyre	Australia’s Boldest Experiment: War and Reconstruction in the 1940s	NewSouth Books
2015	Alan Atkinson	The Europeans in Australia	UNSW Press
2014	Joan Beaumont	Broken Nation: Australians in the Great War	Allen & Unwin
2013	Janet Butler	Kitty's War: The remarkable wartime experiences of Kit McNaughton	University of Queensland Press
2012	Russell McGregor	Indifferent Inclusion: Aboriginal People and the Australian Nation	Aboriginal Studies Press
2011	Penny Russell	Savage or Civilised?: Manners in Colonial Australia	UNSW Press
2010	Bain Attwood	Possession: Batman's Treaty and the Matter of History	Melbourne University Publishing
2009	Robin Gerster	Travels in Atomic Sunshine: Australia and the Occupation of Japan	Scribe
2008	Paul Ham	Vietnam: The Australian War	HarperCollins
2007	Libby Robin	How a Continent Created a Nation	UNSW Press
2006	Richard Broome	Aboriginal Victorians: a History Since 1800	Allen & Unwin
2005	Eileen Chanin and Steven Miller, with an introductory essay by Judith Pugh		Miegunyah Press at Melbourne University Publishing
2004	Stuart Macintyre and Anna Clark	The History Wars	Melbourne University Publishing
2003	James Bowen and Margarita Bowen	The Great Barrier Reef: History, Science, Heritage	Melbourne University Publishing
2002	Nadia Wheatley	The Life and Myth of Charmian Clift	HarperCollinsPublishers
2001	Tim Bonyhady	The Colonial Earth	Miegunyah Press at Melbourne University Publishing
2000	Peter Spearrit	Sydney's Century: A History	UNSW Press
1999	K.S. Inglis	Sacred Places: War Memorials in the Australian Landscape	Melbourne University Publishing
1998	Anne Whitehead	Paradise Mislaid: In Search of the Australian Tribe of Paraguay	University of Queensland Press
1997	Heather Goodall	Invasion to Embassy: Land in Aboriginal Politics in NSW, 1770–1972	Allen & Unwin

The General History Prize

The NSW Community and Regional History Prize

The Young People's History Prize

Digital History Prize

Year	Creator	Title	Publisher
2019	Guardian Australia	The Killing Times	Guardian Australia and the University of Newcastle Colonial Massacres Research Team
2018	Warwick Thornton and Brendan Fletcher	We Don't Need a Map	Barefoot Communications
2017	Adam Clulow	The Amboyna Conspiracy Trial	Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
2016	Victoria Midwinter Pitt and Alan Erson	Afghanistan: Inside Australia’s War	Essential Media & Entertainment
2015	Dan Goldberg and Margie Bryant	Brilliant Creatures	Mint Pictures & Serendipity Productions
2014	Michelle Arrow, Catherine Freyne and Timothy Nicastri	Public Intimacies: The 1974 Royal Commission on Human Relationships	ABC Radio National Hindsight
2013	Scott Hill and Jacqui Newling	The Cook and the Curator: Eat Your History	Sydney Living Museums
2012	Catherine Freyne and Phillip Ulman	Tit for Tat: The Story of Sandra Wilson	Hindsight, ABC Radio National
2011	Sonia Bible	Recipe for Murder	Stray Dog Pictures Pty Ltd for Jumping Dog Productions
2009	Rachel Landers and Dylan Bowen	A Northern Town	Pony Films
2008	Paul Rudd, Matthew Thomason, Wain Fimeri and Anthony Wright	Captain Cook: Obsession and Discovery	Film Australia, Cook Films, Ferns Productions, South Pacific Films, December Films, ABC
2007	John Hughes	The Archive Project: The Realist Film Unit in Cold War Australia	Early Works – ABC TV
2006	Rolf de Heer	Ten Canoes	Vertigo Productions/Adelaide Festival of Arts
2005	Trevor Graham	Hula Girls
2004	Tom Murray in collaboration with the Dhuruputjpi and Yilpara communities	Dhakiyarr vs the King	Film Australia
2003	Marée Delofski	The Trouble With Merle	Film Australia in association with SeeView Pictures
2002	Anita Heiss and Terri McCormack	Barani: Sydney's Aboriginal History	City of Sydney Web Team and History Program in conjunction with CyberDreaming, 2002
2001	Michael Cummins	Thomson of Arnhem Land	Film Australia in association with John Moore, Martin Thiele and Michael McMahon
2000	Martin Thomas	This is Jimmy Barker	ABC Radio Audio Arts
1999	Michelle Rayner	Passes and Pathways	ABC Radio National
1998	Trevor Graham		Film Australia
1997	Bill Bunbury	Unfinished Business, episodes 1–6 Hindsight,	ABC Radio

Former Categories

State Records – John and Patricia Ward History Prize

This prize was first awarded in 2002 to encourage the use of archives in the writing of history. The State Record established the prize in recognition of the contribution to history and archives of NSW by John and Patricia Ward.

Year	Author	Title	Publisher
2008	Christina Twomey	Australia's Forgotten Prisoners: Civilians Interned by the Japanese in World War Two	Cambridge University Press
2007	Klaus Neumann	In the Interest of National Security: Civilian Internment in Australia	National Archives of Australia
2006	Gwenda Tavan	The Long, Slow Death of White Australia	Scribe Publications Pty Ltd
2005	Tony Roberts	Frontier Justice: a history of the Gulf Country to 1900	UQP
2004	Bain Attwood	Rights for Aborigines	Allen & Unwin
2003	David Kent and Norma Townsend	The Convicts of the Eleanor: Protest in Rural England; New Lives in Australia	The Merlin Press Ltd. and Pluto Press Australia
2002	Thom Blake	A Dumping Ground: A History of the Cherbourg Settlement	UQP

The Centenary of Federation Prize, 2001

The centenary award was created as a one-off presentation, the prize being sponsored by the NSW Centenary of Federation Committee. This award was for a "major work" relating to the Australian Federation period focussing on the political, social and cultural issues of Australia at that time.
Winner

Author	Title	Publisher
Geoffrey Bolton	Edmund Barton	Allen & Unwin

Shortlisted

Author	Title	Publisher
Peter Botsman	The Great Constitutional Swindle: a citizen's view of the Australian Constitution	Pluto Press, Australia
Helen Irving	The Centenary Companion to Australian Federation	Cambridge University Press

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