NSW Premier's History Awards

Given by State Library of NSW

119 Works 4,791 Books 130 Reviews 4.0
The NSW Premier's History Awards were established in 1997 to honour distinguished achievement in history by Australians. They remain the only comprehensive set of history awards to be offered by show more an Australian state government. The primary focus for these awards is the promotion of excellence in the interpretation of history, through both the written word and non-print media. show less
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All, Winner (108), Shortlist (11)
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Years:
All, 2023 (4), 2022 (4), 2021 (4), 2020 (4), 2019 (4), 2018 (4), 2017 (4), 2016 (5), 2015 (4), 2014 (12), 2013 (6), 2012 (4), 2011 (3), 2010 (4), 2009 (3), 2008 (5), 2007 (4), 2006 (5), 2005 (4), 2004 (4), 2003 (5), 2002 (5), 2001 (4), 2000 (3), 1999 (4), 1998 (3), 1997 (4)

Winner 108

WorkCategoryYear
Elizabeth and John: The Macarthurs of Elizabeth Farm by Alan AtkinsonAustralian History2023
He Belonged to Wagga: The Great War, the AIF and Returned Soldiers in an Australian Country Town by Ian HodgesCommunity and Regional History2023
Under Empire: Muslim Lives and Loyalties Across the Indian Ocean World, 1775–1945 by Michael Francis LaffanGeneral History2023
The Goodbye Year by Emily GaleYoung People's History2023
French Connection: Australia's cosmopolitan ambitions: Australia's cosmopolitan ambitions Alexis Bergantz by Alexis BergantzAustralian History2022
The Winter Road: A Story of Legacy, Land and a Killing at Croppa Creek by Kate HoldenCommunity and Regional History2022
The Filipino Migration Experience: Global Agents of Change by Mina RocesGeneral History2022
The Dunggiirr Brothers and the Caring Song of the Whale by Shaa SmithYoung People's History2022
People of the River: Lost Worlds of Early Australia by Grace KarskensAustralian History2021
Landscapes of Our Hearts: Reconciling People and Environment by Matthew ColloffCommunity and Regional History2021
The Wardian Case: How a Simple Box Moved Plants and Changed the World by Luke KeoghGeneral History2021
Tell Me Why: The Story of My Life and My Music by Archie RoachYoung People's History2021
Bedlam at Botany Bay by James DunkAustralian History2020
Surviving New England : a history of Aboriginal resistance & resilience through the first forty years of the colonial apocalypse by Callum Clayton-DixonCommunity and Regional History2020
The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist: Three Lives in an Age of Empire by Kate FullagarGeneral History2020
The Good Son: A Story from the First World War, Told in Miniature by Pierre-Jacques OberYoung People's History2020
The Bible in Australia: A Cultural History by Meredith LakeAustralian History2019
Cage of ghosts, National Library of Australia, 27 September - 25 November 2007 by Jon RhodesCommunity and Regional History2019
Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia by Christina ThompsonGeneral History2019
The Upside-down History of Down Under by Alison LloydYoung People's History2019
The battle within : POWs in postwar Australia by Christina TwomeyAustralian History2018
Hidden in Plain View: The Aboriginal People of Coastal Sydney by Paul IrishCommunity and Regional History2018
On the stump : campaign oratory and democracy in the United States, Britain, and Australia by Sean ScalmerGeneral History2018
The Fighting Stingrays by Simon MitchellYoung People's History2018
From the edge : Australia's lost histories by Mark McKennaAustralian History2017
Stories from the Sandstone: Quarantine Inscriptions from Australia's Immigrant Past by Peter HobbinsCommunity and Regional History2017
Japanese War Criminals: The Politics of Justice After the Second World War by Sandra WilsonGeneral History2017
Maralinga's Long Shadow by Christobel MattingleyYoung People's History2017
Australia's boldest experiment: war and reconstruction in the 1940s by Stuart MacintyreAustralian History2016
Fractured families : life on the margins in colonial New South Wales by Tanya EvansCommunity and Regional History2016
Afghanistan Inside Australia's War (DVD) by Victoria Midwinter-PittDigital History2016
Illicit love : interracial sex and marriage in the United States and Australia by Ann McGrathGeneral History2016
One thousand hills by James RoyYoung People's History2016
The Europeans in Australia: Volume 3: Nation by Alan AtkinsonAustralian History2015
The Luck of the Irish: How a Shipload of Convicts Survived the Wreck of the Hive to Make a New Life in Australia by Babette SmithCommunity and Regional History2015
Intolerant Bodies: A Short History of Autoimmunity (Johns Hopkins Biographies of Disease) by Warwick AndersonGeneral History2015
My Gallipoli by Ruth StarkeYoung People's History2015
Broken Nation: Australians in the Great War by Joan BeaumontAustralian History2014
Coast: A History of the New South Wales Edge by Ian HoskinsCommunity and Regional History2014
Encountering the Pacific in the Age of the Enlightenment by John GascoigneGeneral History2014
Australians All by Nadia WheatleyYoung People's History2014
Kitty's war by Janet ButlerAustralian History2013
The Mind of a Thief by Patti MillerCommunity and Regional History2013
Assimilation and Empire by Saliha BelmessousGeneral History2013
Pennies For Hitler by Jackie FrenchYoung People's History2013
Indifferent Inclusion: Aboriginal People and the Australian Nation by Russell McGregorAustralian History2012
Set in Stone: The Cell Block Theatre by Deborah BeckCommunity and Regional History2012
Good Living Street: Portrait of a Patron Family, Vienna 1900 by Tim BonyhadyGeneral History2012
Amazing grace an adventure at sea by Stephanie Owen ReederYoung People's History2012
Savage or civilised? : manners in colonial Australia by Penelope Ann RussellAustralian History2011
Playing the Numbers: Gambling in Harlem between the Wars by Shane WhiteGeneral History2011
India Dark by Kirsty MurrayYoung People's History2011
Possession: Batman's Treaty and the Matter of History by Bain AttwoodAustralian History2010
Randwick by Pauline CurbyCommunity and Regional History2010
Settler Sovereignty: Jurisdiction and Indigenous People in America and Australia, 1788–1836 by Lisa FordGeneral History2010
The Night They Stormed Eureka by Jackie FrenchYoung People's History2010
Travels in Atomic Sunshine: Australia and the Occupation of Japan by Robin GersterAustralian History2009
The Collectors of Lost Souls: Turning Kuru Scientists into Whitemen by Warwick AndersonGeneral History2009
Captain Cook's Apprentice by Anthony HillYoung People's History2009
Vietnam: The Australian War by Paul HamAustralian History2008
Sacred waters : the story of the Blue Mountains gully traditional owners by Dianne JohnsonCommunity and Regional History2008
Captain Cook : Obsession And Discovery by Wain FIMERIDigital History2008
The Politics of War: Race, Class, and Conflict in Revolutionary Virginia by Michael A. McDonnellGeneral History2008
Australia's forgotten prisoners : civilians interned by the Japanese in World War Two by Christina TwomeyState Records2008
How a Continent Created a Nation by Libby RobinAustralian History2007
Mixed Relations: Asian-Aboriginal Contact in North Australia by Regina GanterCommunity and Regional History2007
Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947 by Christopher ClarkGeneral History2007
Songlines and stone axes : transport, trade and travel in Australia by John NicholsonYoung People's History2007
Aboriginal Victorians: A History Since 1800 by Richard BroomeAustralian History2006
Botany Bay: Where Histories Meet by Maria NugentCommunity and Regional History2006
Mussolini's Italy: Life Under the Fascist Dictatorship, 1915-1945 by R. J. B. BosworthGeneral History2006
The Long, Slow Death of White Australia by Gwenda TavanState Records2006
The Black Dress: Mary MacKillop's Early Years by Pamela FreemanYoung People's History2006
Degenerates and Perverts: The 1939 Herald Exhibition of Modern Art by Eileen ChaninAustralian History2005
In the Shadow of Swords by Sally NeighbourGeneral History2005
Frontier Justice: A History of the Gulf Country to 1900 by Tony RobertsState Records2005
Riding with Thunderbolt: The Diary of Ben Cross, Northern New South Wales, 1865 by Allan BaillieYoung People's History2005
The History Wars by Stuart MacintyreAustralian History2004
Citizen Labillardière : a naturalist's life in revolution and exploration (1755-1834) by Edward DuykerGeneral History2004
Rights for Aborigines by Bain AttwoodState Records2004
They took the children by David HollinsworthYoung People's History2004
The Great Barrier Reef: History, Science, Heritage by James BowenAustralian History2003
Steel Town: The Making and Breaking of Port Kembla by Erik EklundCommunity and Regional History2003
The Making of Revolutionary Paris by David GarriochGeneral History2003
Convicts of the Eleanor : protest in rural England, new lives in Australia by David KentState Records2003
The bombing of Darwin : the diary of Tom Taylor, Darwin, 1942 by Alan TuckerYoung People's History2003
The life and myth of Charmian Clift by Nadia WheatleyAustralian History2002
The White Divers of Broome. The true story of a fatal experiment by John BaileyCommunity and Regional History2002
The Silence: How Tragedy Shapes Talk by Ruth WajnrybGeneral History2002
A Dumping Ground: Cherbourg Settlement 1900-1940 by Thom BlakeState Records2002
The Papunya School Book of Country and History by Nada WheatleyYoung People's History2002
The colonial earth by Tim BonyhadyAustralian History2001
Edmund Barton by Geoffrey BoltonCentenary of Federation2001
Through Silent Country by Carolyn Wadley DowleyCommunity and Regional History2001
Fighting Spirit of East Timor: The Life of Martinho Da Costa Lopes by Rowena LennoxGeneral History2001
Sydney's Century: A History by Peter SpearrittAustralian History2000
Sick as : bloody moments in the history of medicine by Gael JenningsChildren's History2000
Malinche's Conquest by Anna LanyonGeneral History2000
Sacred Places: War Memorials in the Australian Landscape by K. S. InglisAustralian History1999
Sex and Suffering: Women's Health and a Women's Hospital by Janet McCalmanCommunity and Regional History1999
Reading the Holocaust by Inga ClendinnenGeneral History1999
Paradise Mislaid: In Search of the Australian Tribe of Paraguay (Uqp) by Anne WhiteheadAustralian History1998
The Rocks: Everyday Life in Early Sydney 1788-1830 by Grace KarskensCommunity and Regional History1998
King of the Australian Coast: The Work of Phillip Parker King in the Mermaid and Bathurst 1817-1822 by Marsden HordernGeneral History1998
Invasion to Embassy: Land in Aboriginal Politics in New South Wales, 1770-1972 by Heather GoodallAustralian History1997
Unlocking the past : preliminary studies in the ancient world by Jennifer LawlessChildren's History1997
THE BLUE MOUNTAINS REDISCOVERED: Beyond the Myths of Early Australian Exploration by Chris CunninghamCommunity and Regional History1997
Death in the Victorian Family by Pat JallandGeneral History1997

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