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NSW Premier’s History Awards 2023 winners announced

Friday, 8 September 2023   Books+Publishing
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The State Library of NSW (SLNSW) has announced the winners for the 2023 NSW Premier’s History Awards.

The winning titles in each category are:

Australian history prize

  • Elizabeth and John: The Macarthurs of Elizabeth Farm (Alan Atkinson, NewSouth)

General history prize

  • Under Empire: Muslim lives and loyalties across the Indian Ocean world, 1775–1945 (Michael Laffan, Columbia University)

NSW regional and community history prize

  • He Belonged to Wagga: The Great War, the AIF and returned soldiers in an Australian country town (Ian Hodges, ASP)

Young people’s history prize

  • The Goodbye Year (Emily Gale, Text)

Anzac Memorial trustees military history prize

  • Soldiers and Aliens: Men in the Australian Army’s employment companies during World War II (June Factor, MUP)

Digital history prize

  • The Australian Wars: Episode 1 (Rachel Perkins, Darren Dale, Jacob Hickey & Don Watson, Blackfella Films)

SLNSW state librarian John Vallance said: ‘Humanity and history are inseparable. We cannot live in the moment—we need space, time and context if we are to make sense of our lives. Hardly surprising, then, that the Premier’s History Awards have the importance they do. My warmest congratulations to this year’s winners—and all the shortlisted works.’

The prize offers $15,000 in each of the categories, except for the new Anzac Memorial trustees military history prize, which is worth $10,000. Eleven judges considered 186 entries across the six prize categories.

For more information on the awards, and to read the judges’ comments, see the SLNSW website.

 

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