The winners of the NSW Premier's History Awards were announced on October 27th. The judges for the 2008 NSW Premiers History Awards were Rosemary Block, Sean Brawley, Alan Dearn, John McQuilton, Catherine Robinson and Richard Waterhouse.
The winners were:
Audio/Visual Prize
Captain Cook: Obsession and Discovery, Tony Wright, Paul Rudd, Matthew Thomason and Wain Fimeri (Screen Australia National Interest Program, December Films, Cook Films, Fern Productions, South Pacific Pictures)
Australian History Prize
Vietnam: the Australian War, Paul Ham (HarperCollins)
Community and Regional History Prize
Sacred Waters: the Story of the Blue Mountains Gully Traditional Owners, Dianne Johnson, in collaboration with the residents of the Gully and their descendants (Halstead Press)
General History Prize
The Politics of War: Race, Class and Conflict in Revolutionary Virginia, Michael A McDonnell (The University of North California Press)
John and Patricia Ward History Prize
Australia's Forgotten Prisoners: Civilians Interned by the Japanese During World War Two, Christina Twomey (Cambridge University Press)
Young People's History Prize
Australians in the Vietnam War, Robert Lewis & Tim Gurry (Ryebuck Media)
The shortlisted titles were chosen from 268 audio/visual and book entries.
Each of the book prizes is worth $15,000 and the shortlists were as follows:
Audio/Visual Prize
A Question of Trust: Stolen wages in Queensland, Lorena Allam and Andrei Chabunov (ABC Radio National, Hindsight)
Our Secret War, Tom Morton (ABC Radio National, Social History Unit)
Captain Cook: Obsession and Discovery, Tony Wright, Paul Rudd, Matthew Thomason and Wain Fimeri (Screen Australia National Interest Program, December Films, Cook Films, Fern Productions, South Pacific Pictures)
Australian History Prize
Van Diemen's Land, James Boyce (Black Inc.)
Big White Lie: Chinese Australians in White Australia, John Fitzgerald (UNSW Press)
Vietnam: the Australian War, Paul Ham (HarperCollins)
Community and Regional History Prize
Sacred Waters: the Story of the Blue Mountains Gully Traditional Owners, Dianne Johnson, in collaboration with the residents of the Gully and their descendants (Halstead Press)
The Railways of Victoria 1854-2004, Robert Lee (MUP)
Grandeur and Grit: a History of Glebe, Max Solling (Halstead Press)
General History Prize
Captain Cook: Voyager Between Worlds, John Gascoigne (Hambledon Continuum)
The Minefield: an Australian Tragedy in Vietnam, Greg Lockhart (A&U)
The Politics of War: Race, Class and Conflict in Revolutionary Virginia, Michael A McDonnell (The University of North California Press)
John and Patricia Ward History Prize
Magnificent Obsession: the Story of the Mitchell Library, Sydney, Brian H Fletcher (A&U)
The Secret War: a True History of Queensland's Native Police, Jonathan Richards (UQP)
Australia's Forgotten Prisoners: Civilians Interned by the Japanese During
World War Two, Christina Twomey (Cambridge University Press)
Young People's History Prize
Lofty's Mission, Krista Bell, illus. David Miller (Hachette Livre Australia)
Australians in the Vietnam War, Robert Lewis & Tim Gurry (Ryebuck Media)
The Prime Ministers' National Treasures, Matthew Thomason, Paul Rudd & Perry Stapleton (A Screen Australia National Interest Program)
