Joint AAMH and ANMM Maritime History Prizes
Writers, publishers and readers of maritime history are invited biennially to nominate works for maritime history prizes totalling $5,000, sponsored jointly by the Australian Association for Maritime History (AAMH) and the Australian National Maritime Museum (ANMM).
Both prizes reflect the wish of the two sponsoring organisations to promote a broad view of maritime history that demonstrates how the sea and maritime influences have been more central to the shaping of Australia, its people and its culture than has commonly been believed.
The Frank Broeze Memorial Maritime History Book Prize
This prize is named in honour of Professor Frank Broeze who died in April 2001. Professor Frank Broeze was a co-founder of AAMH who served as President of the Association in the 1980s, was the first editor of the Association's journal The Great Circle, and wrote a number of articles and books including Island Nation: A history of Australians and the sea (Allen & Unwin, 1998). He was greatly respected as a maritime historian and university teacher.
Past winners of the Frank Broeze Memorial Maritime History Book Prize are:
| 2019 | Alan Frost Mutiny, Mayhem, Mythology: Bounty’s enigmatic journey (Sydney University Press, 2018) |
| 2017 | Klaus Neumann Across the Seas: Australia's response to refugees (Black Inc, 2015) |
| 2015 | David Stevens In All Respects ready - Australia's Navy In World War One (Oxford University Press, 2014) |
| 2013 | John Ogden Saltwater People of the Broken Bay and Saltwater People of the Fatal Shore (Cyclops Press, Sydney) |
| 2011 | Iain McCalman Darwin's Armada – How four voyagers to Australasia won the battle for evolution and changed the world (Penguin Australia, 2009) |
| 2009 | Professor John Gascoigne Captain Cook: Voyager Between Worlds (Hambledon Continuum, London 2007) |
| 2007 | Dr Edward Duyker OAM François Péron – An Impetuous Life: naturalist and voyager (Miegunyah Press, 2006) |
| 2004 | Jean Fornasiero, Peter Monteath and John West-Sooby Encountering Terra Australis: the Australian voyages of Nicolas Baudin and Matthew Flinders (Wakefield Press, 2004) |
| 2002 | Dr Leone Huntsman Sand in our Souls: the beach in Australian history (Melbourne University Press, 2001) |
| 2000 | Marsden Hordern Mariners are Warned: John Lort Stokes and HMS Beagle in Australia 1837-1843 (Melbourne University Press, 1989) |
The Australian Community Maritime History Prize
It was introduced in 2011 and is awarded to a regional or local museum or historical society for a publication (book, booklet, educational resource kit or other media) relating to an aspect of maritime history of that region or community.
The inaugural Australian Community Maritime History Prize was awarded to the Lady Denman Heritage Complex, Huskisson, for Peter Crabb’s Shipping and Shipwrecks – Stories from Jervis Bay and its Neighbouring Coasts (2010).
Past winners of the Australian Community Maritime History Prize are:
| 2019 | Naval Historical Society of Australia www.navyhistory.org.au |
| 2017 | Western Australian Museum and Albany Community Reference Group Yurlmun: Mokare Mia Boodja (Returning to Mokare’s Home Country) |
| 2013 | Mornington Peninsula Art Gallery Sea of Dreams: The lure of Port Phillip Bay 1830–1914 |
| 2011 | Lady Denman Heritage Complex, Huskisson Peter Crabb’s Shipping and Shipwrecks – Stories from Jervis Bay and its Neighbouring Coasts |