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The Prize for a First Book of History: Judges 2008
| Tony Birch (Convenor)Tony Birch publishes short fiction, poetry and essays. His book Shadowboxing was released in 2006. He teaches in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. |
| Helen MacDonaldHelen MacDonald is an award-winning historian and senior fellow at The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne. Her book Human Remains won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for a First Book of History in 2006 and was short-listed for the Ernest Scott History Prize. Helen is currently writing a new book, Possessing the Dead (forthcoming 2009), assisted by an Australia Council Literature Board grant. Her work also appears in journals, newspapers, literary and science magazines, and she is a member of the advisory board of The Writing Centre for Scholars and Researchers at the University of Melbourne. |
| Alistair ThomsonAlistair Thomson is Professor of History at Monash University, Director of the Monash Institute for Public History and President of the International Oral History Association. Al recently returned to Melbourne after 22 years in England at the University of Sussex, where he was Director of the Centre for Continuing Education, joint Director of the Centre for Life History Research, co-editor of the British journal Oral History, and a Trustee of the Mass-Observation Archive. Al's research over the last 25 years has included life history studies of migration, war and lifelong education. His publications include: Anzac Memories: Living With the Legend (Oxford University Press, 1994), Through the Joy of Learning: Diary of a Thousand Adult Learners (NIACE, 1996), The Oral History Reader (Routledge, 1998 and 2006) and Ten Pound Poms: Australia’s Invisible Migrants (with Jim Hammerton, Manchester University Press, 2005). He is currently writing a collective biography with four migrant women, Moving Stories, Women’s Lives: British Women and the Postwar Australian Dream (Manchester University Press, 2009). | |
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