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Ian Hoskins
Ian Rowland Hoskins (born in 1962) is an Australian historian and author based in Sydney. His books are known for their thematic surveying of social, cultural and geographical history. Career Hoskins studied at the University of Sydney and taught American History there as an academic from 1989 to 1993, alongside fellow historians Neville Meaney and Shane White. In 1996, Hoskins was awarded his PhD titled ''Cultivating the Citizen: Cultural Politics in the Parks and Gardens of Sydney'', 1880-1930. In 2010, Hoskins won the Queensland Premier's Literary Prize for History with his first book ''Sydney Harbour: A History'', which went on to be republished in 2022. His second book, ''Coast'' was the first history to be written on the New South Wales coast, receiving the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Prize for Community and Regional History in 2014. Published in 2020, Hoskins' third book ''Rivers: The Lifeblood of Australia'' included a foreword by Don Watson and was long-l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Sydney
The University of Sydney (USYD), also known as Sydney University, or informally Sydney Uni, is a public research university located in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and is one of the country's six sandstone universities. The university comprises eight academic faculties and university schools, through which it offers bachelor, master and doctoral degrees. The university consistently ranks highly both nationally and internationally. QS World University Rankings ranked the university top 40 in the world. The university is also ranked first in Australia and fourth in the world for QS graduate employability. It is one of the first universities in the world to admit students solely on academic merit, and opened their doors to women on the same basis as men. Five Nobel and two Crafoord laureates have been affiliated with the university as graduates and faculty. The university has educated eight Australian prime ministers, including ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neville Meaney
Neville Meaney (July 2, 1932, Adelaide – May 30, 2021) was a noted historian of Australia, considered among the "foremost thinkers in the field of foreign and defence policy history" with a special focus on the early twentieth century and questions of Australia's cultural and geopolitical place in the world. Born in Adelaide, Neville Meaney was the first Australian historian to be awarded an American PhD, at Duke University. Returning to Australia in 1959, he taught first at UNSW before moving to the University of Sydney in 1962, remaining there for the rest of his career. His monograph ''Australia and the World'' (1985) is considered a "comprehensive documentary history of Australia’s relations with the world of nations." Later works continued to consider Australia's place in the world, including as regarded the rising importance of Asia. A festschrift in his honour was published in 2013, recognising (in the words of Dennis Richardson (diplomat) Dennis James Richardson, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queensland Premier's Literary Awards
The Queensland Premier's Literary Awards were an Australian suite of literary awards inaugurated in 1999 and disestablished in 2012. It was one of the most generous suites of literary awards within Australia, with $225,000 in prize money across 14 categories with prizes up to $25,000 in some categories. The awards upon their establishment incorporated a number of pre-existing awards including the Steele Rudd Award for the best Australian collection of new short fiction and the David Unaipon Award for unpublished Indigenous writing. The awards were established by Peter Beattie, the then Premier of Queensland in 1999 and abolished by Premier Campbell Newman, shortly after winning the 2012 Queensland state election. In response, the Queensland writing community established the Queensland Literary Awards to ensure the Awards continued in some form. The judging panels remained largely the same, and University of Queensland Press committed to continue to publish the winners of the Eme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards
The New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, also known as the NSW Premier's Literary Awards, were first awarded in 1979. They are among the richest literary awards in Australia. Notable prizes include the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, and the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction. , the Awards are presented by the NSW Government and administered by the State Library of New South Wales in association with Create NSW, with support of Multicultural NSW and the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Total prize money in 2019 was up to A$305,000, with eligibility limited to writers, translators and illustrators with Australian citizenship or permanent resident status. History The NSW Premier's Literary Awards were established in 1979 by the New South Wales Premier Neville Wran. Commenting on its purpose, Wran said: "We want the arts to take, and be seen to take, their proper place in our social priorities. If governments treat writers an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Watson
Don Watson (born 1949) is an Australian author, screenwriter, former political adviser, and speechwriter. Early life Watson was born in 1949 at Warragul in the Gippsland region of Victoria, and grew up on a farm in nearby Korumburra. Academia and early career Watson studied for his undergraduate degree at La Trobe University and latterly completed PhD at Monash University before spending ten years working as an academic historian. He wrote three books on Australian history before turning his hand to TV and the stage. For several years he combined writing political satire for the actor Max Gillies with political speeches for the then Premier of Victoria, John Cain. In 1992, he became Prime Minister of Australia Paul Keating's speech-writer and adviser. Screenwriting In addition to regular books, articles and essays, in recent years he has also written feature films, including ''The Man Who Sued God'', starring Billy Connolly and Judy Davis, and '' Passion'', a film about Percy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indie Book Awards (Australia)
The Indie Book Awards are a group of awards presented annually by Australian Independent Booksellers. They were established in 2008 in order to recognise and reward the best in Australian writing, chosen by independent booksellers in Australia. , there are six categories, with an overall winner chosen as Indie Book of the Year: *Indie Book of the Year Fiction *Indie Book of the Year Non-Fiction *Indie Book of the Year Debut Fiction *Indie Book of the Year Children’s *Indie Book of the Year Young Adult *Indie Book of the Year Illustrated Non-Fiction A longlist of titles is compiled and announced in December of each year and a shortlist A short list or shortlist is a list of candidates for a job, prize, award, political position, etc., that has been reduced from a longer list of candidates (sometimes via intermediate lists known as "long lists"). The length of short lists varie ... (24 titles, four per category) are announced in late January. The winners of the Indie Book ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Library Of New South Wales
The State Library of New South Wales, part of which is known as the Mitchell Library, is a large heritage-listed special collections, reference and research library open to the public and is one of the oldest libraries in Australia. Established in 1869 its collections date back to the Australian Subscription Library established in the colony of New South Wales (now a States and territories of Australia, state of Australia) in 1826. The library is located on the corner of Macquarie Street, Sydney, Macquarie Street and Memorials to William Shakespeare#Australia, Shakespeare Place, in the Sydney central business district adjacent to the The Domain, Sydney, Domain and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, Royal Botanic Gardens, in the City of Sydney. The library is a member of the National and State Libraries Australia (NSLA) consortium. The State Library of New South Wales building was designed by Walter Liberty Vernon, assisted by H. C. L. Anderson and was built from 1905 to 1910, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New South Wales Premier's History Awards
The NSW Premier's History Awards honour distinguished achievement in the interpretation of history, through both the written word and non-print media by Australian citizens and permanent residents of Australia. History The State Government of New South Wales, Australia established the Premier's History Awards in 1997, which were devised by members of the History Council of NSW including Max Kelly, Paul Ashton and Shirley Fitzgerald. In 2005 the name of the awards was changed to NSW Premier's History Awards. The awards are presented annually in early September and are managed by the State Library of NSW, in association with Create NSW (former Arts NSW). Categories The following awards, each of $15,000 are offered: * Australian History Prize for a major published book or e-book on Australian history. * General History Prize for a major published book or e-book on international history. * NSW Community and Regional History Prize for a published book or e-book that makes a significan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ross Fitzgerald
Ross Andrew Fitzgerald (born in 1944) is an Australian academic, historian, novelist, secularist, and political commentator. Fitzgerald is an Emeritus Professor in History and Politics at Griffith University. He has published forty-three books, including three histories of Queensland, two biographies, works about Labor Party politics of the 1950s, with other books relating to philosophy, alcohol and Australian Rules football, as well as eight works of fiction, including seven political/sexual satires about his corpulent anti-hero Professor Dr Grafton Everest. In 2018 Ross Fitzgerald published the Grafton Everest sexual/political satire ''So Far, So Good : An entertainment''. In 2019, he published the Grafton Everest adventure ''The Dizzying Heights'' and in March 2020, his memoir ''Fifty Years Sober''. In November 2021 he published the eighth Grafton Everest adventure, ''The Lowest Depths''. All these books are published by Hybrid in Melbourne. Fitzgerald was an alcoholic who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Star Line
The Blue Star Line was a Merchant Navy (United Kingdom), British passenger and cargo shipping company formed in 1911, being in operation until 1998. Formation Blue Star Line was formed as an initiative by the Vestey Brothers, a Liverpool-based butchers company, who had founded the Union Cold Storage Company to take advantage of refrigeration practices. They developed a large importation business, shipping frozen meat from South America to Britain, initially from Argentina on ships of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, and other shipping lines that called at South American ports. The high prices charged for transport by these companies led the Vestey brothers to start to operate their own ships. They chartered their first ships from 1904, and began to buy their own ships from 1909 onwards. The Blue Star Line was officially inaugurated on 28 July 1911, initially using second-hand ships. They ordered their first new ship in 1914, and by the outbreak of the First World War were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Library Of Australia
The National Library of Australia (NLA), formerly the Commonwealth National Library and Commonwealth Parliament Library, is the largest reference library in Australia, responsible under the terms of the ''National Library Act 1960'' for "maintaining and developing a national collection of library material, including a comprehensive collection of library material relating to Australia and the Australians, Australian people", thus functioning as a national library. It is located in Parkes, Australian Capital Territory, Parkes, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, ACT. Created in 1960 by the ''National Library Act'', by the end of June 2019 its collection contained 7,717,579 items, with its manuscript material occupying of shelf space. The NLA also hosts and manages the renowned Trove cultural heritage discovery service, which includes access to the Australian Web Archive and National edeposit (NED), a large collection of digitisation, digitised newspapers, official documents, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1962 Births
Year 196 ( CXCVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Dexter and Messalla (or, less frequently, year 949 '' Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 196 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus attempts to assassinate Clodius Albinus but fails, causing Albinus to retaliate militarily. * Emperor Septimius Severus captures and sacks Byzantium; the city is rebuilt and regains its previous prosperity. * In order to assure the support of the Roman legion in Germany on his march to Rome, Clodius Albinus is declared Augustus by his army while crossing Gaul. * Hadrian's wall in Britain is partially destroyed. China * First year of the '' Jian'an era of the Chinese Han Dynasty. * Emperor Xian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
