The Canterbury History Foundation raises funds for and administers the Canterbury Community Historian award. The award depends on the availability of funds, and the Foundation reserves the right not to make an award in any given year.

Enquiries about application may be made to the secretary at PO Box 36766 Christchurch, and applications may be made using the application form below.

To check your eligibility and read the conditions for the award please see our Terms and Conditions Form.

PREVIOUS AWARDS:

2019  Dan Bartlett – project on conscientious objectors in Canterbury

2016:  Dan Smith – Maori-themed carvings of John Henry Menzies of Banks Peninsula

2014-15: Kim Newth – Biographies of selected Canterbury WWII veterans

2011: Ian Dougherty – 100 Years of the Canterbury Workers’ Educational Association

2010: Dr Jean Garner – Women’s letters from the John Hall family to England in the 1860s, published as Letters to Grace

2009: Mrs Ruth Low – History of Droving in New Zealand

2008: Dr Vaughan Wood – The Banks Peninsula cocksfoot seed industry

2007: Rhian Gallagher – Jack Adamson, Hermitage photographer and guide, published as Feeling for Daylight

2006: John Wilson – History of Addington

2005: Mrs Philippa Graham – Maori rock drawings in Canterbury and North Otago

2004: Libby Plumridge – Maori Women’s Welfare League, Banks Peninsula, published as Rapaki Wahine Whakamaumahara

2003: Jim Sullivan – Oral history in sound archives, published as Canterbury Voices

2002: Colin Amodeo – Canterbury 1849, published as Forgotten Forty-niners

2001: Margaret Lovell-Smith – Helen Connon, published as Easily the Best

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CANTERBURY COMMUNITY HISTORIAN AWARD

APPLICATION FORM

Full name:

Postal Address:

Telephone:

Email:

1. Give a brief description of your project, its nature and objectives:

2. Tell us what sources you expect to be useful:

3. Tell us the form in which your results should reach the wider community. Do you have any prospect or assurance of financial support for such publication?

4. Who is your prospective audience? What benefit or interest to the community will your project have?

5. What progress have you made so far in planning, research or writing?

6. Suggest a rough timetable for the project.

7. Is the University of Canterbury Library the most appropriate base for your work? If not, what is your preferred base?

8. Please name TWO REFEREES (with their addresses and phone numbers) to whom the Awards Committee might turn, in confidence, for assurance of your ability to manage and complete the project successfully, and any other relevant matters.

9. What other similar projects have you undertaken? Please attach your CV or a list of publications.

Please sign this form, signifying your agreement to the Terms and Conditions and your agreement to the Awards Committee’s making such further enquiries as they think necessary.

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