2004 History Fellowship for Bronte Society project!Siobhan McHugh has been awarded the 2004 History Fellowship to enable her to write a social history of Bronte Beach and the surrounding area. The book will draw on both research and interviews with a broad range of inhabitants, past and present. The interviews will be stored in Waverley Library, forming a valuable archive for future researchers.The Fellowship judges were particularly attracted by the human focus of Ms McHugh's approach, and the likelihood that it would produce a multifaceted community history, one where indigenous history intersects with diverse migrant settlement histories. The history of Bronte might well stand as a microcosm of the State's social and cultural development. Ms McHugh's writing style is engaging and accessible and her work is both popular and widely respected. Her first book, The Snowy, won a 1990 NSW Premier's Regional Literary Award; her book cottoning On, a social history of the cotton industry, was shortlisted for the inaugural Premier's Regional History Prize in 1997; and her most recent radio documentary, The Irish at Eureka, is shortlisted for this year's NSW Premier's Audio / Visual History Prize. |
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