The Award honours Miss Margaret Medcalf OAM, Western Australia’s second State Archivist, for her landmark contribution to the development of the State archives collection in Western Australia, which was established in 1945 and is 80 years old this year.
The State Records Office is pleased to announce that the following works have been shortlisted for the 2025 Award:
- Rails in the West: How Western Australia’s Government Railways shaped the State, 1870-2000 (book) by Fred Affleck.
- Settlement, Struggle and Success: Margaret River and its Old Hospital, 1924–2024 (book) by Jenny and Bill Bunbury.
- Northcliffe 1924-2024: Scenes from Rural Life (book) by Steve Errington.
- Timber and Tobacco: Yugoslav and Macedonian sleeper cutters and tobacco growers in Manjimup 1890-1962 (book) by Criena Fitzgerald.
- Industrial welfare in the South West Timber Industry of Western Australia, 1945-1954 (article) by Charlie Fox in Studies in WA History, 36, 2024.
- Death at Butterabby: the case of Belo and Mumbleby and Aboriginal women’s place in the nineteenth-century criminal justice system (article) by Caroline Ingram in History Australia, Vol. 21: No. 3, 2024.
- From the Avon to the Irwin: a story of Two Valleys (Book) by Anne Jefferys.
- An entangled but separate system: examining the experiences of Colonial offenders in Western Australia, 1829-1868 (PhD thesis) by Emily Lanman.
- Western Australia’s first domestic servants 1829-1840 (article) by Lenore Layman in Studies in WA History, 36, 2024.
- To Protect, Exploit, or Govern: The Role of Indigenous Labour in Western Australia, 1829-1850 (article) by Kellie Moss in Studies in WA History, 36, 2024.
The winner will be announced at an Awards ceremony in October 2025.
For further information about the Award contact us via sro@sro.wa.gov.au.
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