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NSW Premier's History Award winners announced
Published 28 October, 2009
The winners of this year's NSW Premier's History Awards were announced at a presentation dinner last night.
The winners included:
Australian History Prize ($15,000)--Travels in Atomic Sunshine: Australia and the Occupation of Japan (Robin Gerster, Scribe)
General History Prize ($15,000)--The Collectors of Lost Souls: Turning Kuru Scientists into Whitemen (Warwick Anderson, Johns Hopkins University Press)
NSW Community and Regional History Prize ($15,000)--Up on the Hill: A History of St Patrick's College, Goulburn (David Bollen, UNSW Press)
Young People's History Prize ($15,000)--Captain Cook's Apprentice (Anthony Hill, Penguin).
Also announced at the award dinner last night was the winner of the 2009 NSW Archival Research Fellowship ($15,00), which went to Caroline Ford, to research and write a history of ‘Sydney's relationship with its ocean foreshores, commencing in the 1820s and extending to 1920'; and the winner of the 2009 NSW History Fellowship ($20,000), which went to Janette Holcomb, to ‘research and write a book-length history of the early merchant families of Sydney in the period 1788-1850'.
Source: http://www.booksellerandpublisher.com.au/articles/2009/10/13784/
This article from Thorpe Bowker's Weekly Book Newsletter and Media Extra is reproduced by kind permission of Thorpe-Bowker, a division of R R Bowker LLC. © Copyright 2009, Thorpe-Bowker.
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