Margaret Medcalf Award - previous winners
Previous winners of the Margaret Medcalf Award have been:
2003
Joint Winners:
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Anne and Bruce Buchanan: The Bugtool: A User’s Guide to Occupancy and Ownership of Land (finding aid)
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Christine Choo - Mission Girls: Aboriginal Women on Catholic Missions in the Kimberley, Western Australia 1900-1950 (monograph)
Special Commendation:
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Kate Auty – Silence(s) and Resistant (Dis)quiet (PhD thesis)
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David Barker – Warders and Gaolers: A Dictionary of Western Australian Prison Officers, 1829-1879 (monograph)
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Ian Duckham – Visionary, Vassal Or Vandal? Rod Schenk - Missionary : A Case Study In Western Desert Missions (monograph)
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Kim Epton – Rivers of the Kimberley: Their Discovery and Naming (monograph)
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Rod Moran – Sex, Maiming and Murder: Seven Case Studies into the Reliability of Reverend E.R.B. Gribble, Superintendent, Forrest River Mission, 1913-1928, as a Witness to the Truth (monograph)
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Michael O’Connor – The Historical Ecology of the Greenough Flats (PhD Thesis)
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Gillian O’Mara – Joseph Noonan: Fenian Success Story (published article)
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Naomi Segal – Compulsory Arbitration and the Western Australian Goldmining Industry: A Re-examination of the Inception of Compulsory Arbitration in Western Australia (published article)
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Tess Thomson – North Kal – A Golden Century: The History of North Kalgoorlie Primary School, 1902-2002 (monograph)
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Tim Willing and Kevin Kenneally – Under a Regent Moon: A Historical Account of Pioneer Pastoralists Joseph Bradshaw and Aeneas Gunn at Marigui Settlement, Prince Regent River, Kimberley, 1891-1892
Inaugural Award presented by the Hon. Sheila McHale MLA, Minister for Culture and the Arts at the Bankwest Lecture Theatre, John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library on 18 August 2003.
2004
Winner:
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Lauren Marsh and Steve Kinnane - Ghost files: the Missing Files of the Department of Indigenous Affairs archives (published article)
Special Commendation:
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Chris Owen – ‘The Police Appear to be a Useless Lot Up There’: Law and Order in the East Kimberley, 1884-1905 (published article)
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Laura Peden Nolan – Giving their Best: A History of East Maylands Primary School, 1954-2003 (monograph)
Award presented by Professor Tom Stannage, Executive Dean (Humanities), Curtin University at the Bankwest Lecture Theatre, John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library on 24 May 2004.
2005
Winner:
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Danny Cusack – With and Olive Branch and a Shillelagh: the Life and Times of Senator Patrick Lynch (monograph)
Special Commendation:
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Andrew Gill – Convict Assignment in Western Australia: The Parkhurst “Apprentices”, 1842-1851 (monograph)
Award presented by Professor Edwin Jaggard, Edith Cowan University at the Alexander Library Building Theatre on 8 July 2005.
2006
Award postponed to 2007.
2007
Winner:
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Neville Green – Access, Equality and Opportunity? The Education of Aboriginal Children in Western Australia, 1840-1978 (PhD Thesis)
Special Commendation:
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Amanda Curtin – Ellipsis (PhD Thesis)
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Andrea Gaynor – Harvest of the Suburbs: An Environmental History of Growing Food in Australian Cities (Monograph)
Award presented by Colin Murphy, Auditor-General of Western Australia and Chair of the State Records Commission at the Alexander Library Building Theatre on 3 May 2007.
2008
Winner:
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Dr Richard Hartley – River of Steel: A History of the Western Australian Goldfields and Agricultural Water Supply 1903-2003 (Monograph)
Special Commendation:
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Criena Fitzgerald – Compensating the Tubercular Miner: An Occupational Health Solution to a Public Health Problem (Published Article)
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Kellie Abbot and Celia Chesney – "I am a poor woman": Gender, Poor Relief and the Poorhouse in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Western Australia (Published Article)
Award presented by Chris Field, Western Australian Ombudsman and State Records Commissioner at the Alexander Library Building Theatre on 14 May 2008.
