Congratulations to the shortlisted authors for the NSW Premier’s History Awards 2019, including AHA members:
Australian History Prize:
Ann Curthoys and Jessie Mitchell, Taking Liberty: Indigenous Rights and Settler-Self-Government in Colonial Australia, 1830-1890
Meredith Lake, The Bible in Australia: A Cultural History
Laura Rademaker, Found in Translation: Many Meanings on a North Australian Mission
General History Prize:
Ian Gow and Stuart Kells, The Big Four: The Curious Past and Perilous Future of the Global Accounting Monopoly
Marilyn Lake, Progressive New World: How Settler Colonialism and Transpacific Exchange Shaped American Reform
Christina Thompson, Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
NSW Regional and Community History Prize:
Sarah Luke, Callun Park, Hospital for the Insane
Julie McIntyre and John Germov, Hunter Wine: A History
Jon Rhodes, Cage of Ghosts
Young People’s History Prize:
Kaye Baillie and Narelda Joy, Message in a Sock
Alison Lloyd and Terry Denton, The Upside-down History of Down Under
Anita Selzer, I Am Sasha
Digital History Prize:
Lorena Allum, Nick Evershed, Carly Earl, Paul Daley, Andy Ball, Ciaran O’Mahoney, Jeremy Nadel and the University of Newcastle Colonial Massacres Research Team, Guardian Australia’s series The Killing Times
Catherine Freyne, Scott McKinnon and Mark Don, The Making of Mardi Gras 1979-81 and Mardi Gras Supernova 2002-03
Martin Thomas and Beatrice Bijon, Etched in Bone
Winners will be announced 30 August 2019