National and State Libraries Australasia and Library Council of New South Wales Honorary Fellowships
In 2003/04 the Library Council of New South Wales established two honorary fellowships, to be awarded to the top shortlisted applications received for the C.H. Currey Memorial Fellowship and the Nancy Keesing Fellowship.
The National and State Libraries Australasia Honorary Fellowship at the State Library of New South Wales is offered in priority order to the shortlisted candidates for the C.H. Currey Memorial Fellowship.
The Library Council of New South Wales Honorary Fellowship is offered in priority order to the shortlisted candidates for the Nancy Keesing Fellowship.
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Library Council of New South Wales Honorary Fellow
2012
Dr Anne Whitehead for her biographical study of William Balcombe, the first Colonial Treasurer of New South Wales, and his daughter Mrs Lucia Elizabeth Abell. This project concentrates on the period 1824 to 1834, a period of great change in the colony
2011
Molly Duggins for her project: ‘Colonial montage: constructing the Australian experience in late nineteenth-century graphic culture’. This is an investigation of the historical evolution of montage which will reveal how montage not only provided a robust vehicle for the consolidation of an Australian iconography, but also served as a means through which to domesticate and sentimentalise the Australian experience.
2010
Dr Catie Gilchrist for her project 'Eccentric, Radical or Un-Australian? Alternative masculinities in Australia 1870-1920', which examines the variety of ways Australian masculinity was defined in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Dr Gilchrist’s project contends that there many more ways of thinking about masculinity were available than has been generally acknowledged in traditional historiography.
2009
Dr Allison Cadzow for her project 'Moving mountains: a selection of Marie Byles’ writing and photography from 1920 to 1970', which takes a fresh look at the Library’s Marie Byles archive. Byles (1970-1979), the first female solicitor in NSW, was also an effective, committed and public conservationist. She was a prolific author and photographer – extensively documented in her collection held by the Library – and Dr Cadzow’s project proposes to work on this largely unresearched aspect of her important career. While aspects of Byles’ career have been published, Dr Cadzow’s project will mine an important, but neglected, part of her public life which also contextualise the broader intellectual environmental, spiritual and feminist spheres in which she operated.
2007/08
Ms Jill Dimond for her project 'A Biography of Australian lecturer and author Mrs A M Hamilton-Grey'.
2006
Mr Michael Davis for his project 'Biographical essay on the work and views of Frederick McCarthy'.
National & State Libraries Honorary Fellowship
2012
Hannah Forsyth’s project is titled Sydney, Pleasure and Modernity: retail and civic culture, 1890-2000. The project looks at the growth of the department store at the end of the 19th century and the concurrent development of a CBD, which both represented the city and marked itself out as distinct from the suburbs, a place to dress up for when ‘going into town.’ This study is about the way retail helped create a sense of the city by engaging in a variety of ways with civic life.
2011
Dr Saliha Belmessous for her project ‘Saxe-Bannister and the tradition of treaty-making in Australian Indigenous history’. Saxe Bannister was a British lawyer and first Attorney-General of NSW (1824-26). Saxe Bannister was one of the first persons to attempt to legalize relations between the Crown and Aborigines through treaty.
2009
Professor John Maynard for his project 'The black battlefield: The World War I experiences of Aborigines at home and abroad'. This project explores the experiences of Aboriginal people in NSW during WW1.
2008
Dr Christine Cheater for her project 'The Aborigine as Detective: Arthur Upfield's Chief Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte Crime Novels in Historical Context.'
2006/07
Ms Lail Ellmoos for her project 'Revealing the development of Australia's creative spirit'.
