Congratulations to Rebecca Jones, Ian Tyrrell and Paul Irish, whose books have been shortlisted in the NSW Premier’s History Awards 2018.

Rebecca Jones’ Slow Catastrophes: Living with Drought in Australia has been nominated for the Australian History Prize. Ian Tyrrell’s River Dreams: The People and Landscape of the Cooks River and Paul Irish’s Hidden in Plain View: The Aboriginal People of Coastal Sydney have been nominated for the NSW Regional and Community History Prize.

The award recipients will be announced on Friday 31st August, when the NSW Premier’s History Awards Address will be delivered by Professor Grace Karskens. Professor Karskens is a leading environmental historian and historian of colonial NSW, and is the State Library of NSW’s Coral Thomas Fellow.

Image: Chart of the three harbours of Botany Bay, Port Jackson, and Broken Bay; shewing the ground cultivated by the colonists, with the courses of the rivers Hawkesbury, Nepean, &c, &c. London : T. Cadell ; W. Davies, 1802, via NLA.