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Application - 

Award & Prizes

2020


Purpose of the Awards & Prizes Program

Applications close at 5pm on Monday, 31 August, 2020 (extended deadline).


Our Awards & Prizes program aims to foster excellence in Australian historical writing, showcase and reward best practice, and advance and promote public understand and appreciation of history.

We offer a number of prestigious annual awards and prizes totalling $3,500 in prize money. Winners are announced and presentations made at our Annual History Lecture in September.

Criteria and Eligibility

Please read carefully information available on the website as well as the Preamble and Rules document pertaining to the Award or Prize for which you wish to submit your work to ensure the eligibility of the nominated work.

Please ensure that you have reviewed the criteria for the Award or Prizes, which are available via the links below, prior to submitting. (Note - multiple applications for awards are allowed, but if you wish to apply for more than one award, you will have to submit a new form for each application).

The Aboriginal History Award

Addison Road Community Centre Organisation Award for Multicultural History

Max Kelly Award

The Macquarie-PHA Applied History Award

Works that do not conform to the rules will not be considered.

If you have any questions contact us at programs@historycouncilnsw.org.au or ring us on 0418 811 522.

APPLICANT DETAILS 

ENTRY DETAILS

Which Award or Prize are you applying for?Tick one box.

Title of Nominated Work

Please provide a brief overview of your nominated work. (700 characters)

Describe the context or purpose in which this work was undertaken giving all relevant details including the dates during which the bulk of the work was completed. For example: Undergraduate Essay, Department of History, University of Sydney, Course Name, Semester number, Lecturer or Commissioned History, Client name and contact, date undertaken etc. If the work has been supervised, you must include the name of the supervisor, lecturer or tutor who worked with you. (1000 characters)

All works are judged anonymously. Please remove any reference to the author on the submitted work.  Failure to remove your name from the work will result in disqualification.

Do you give the History Council of NSW permission to use your biography and photograph for promotional purposes, if you win a Award or Prize?Tick one box
Are you willing to be contacted by the media for promotional purposes?Tick one box
Occasionally we capture our events in photographs and/or recordings. Please indicate if this is or is not acceptable to you

Declaration

I, the author of the above-named work, have read the rules relating to my selected Prize/Award offered by the History Council of NSW and confirm that it is a work substantially undertaken between 1 January 2019 and 31 December 2019. I hereby nominate the work for consideration by the judges and agree to accept the judges’ decision as final. In the event of publication arising from this award, I accept responsibility for obtaining all copyright clearances and accreditations.

Please upload an image of yourself in jpeg or png format (max file size 5MB). Alternatively, you can provide this to us if your application is successful. Applicants must ensure they comply with copyright requirements and supply the details of the photographer or publisher.

Please upload a copy of your nominated work in .pdf format or exegesis in .pdf and multimedia (eligible awards/prizes only - check conditions prior to submitting) in .mp3, .mp4, .mov, .jpg, .jpeg or .png. (max file size 25MB). 


(Please note: If you are having trouble uploading your multimedia files please contact programs@historycouncilnsw.org.au for further assistance.)

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