Ian Hoskins

Ian Hoskins
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Ian Rowland Hoskins (born in 1962) is an Australian historian and author based in Sydney.[1][2] His books are known for their thematic surveying of social, cultural and geographical history.[3][2][4]

Career

Hoskins studied at the University of Sydney and taught American History there as an academic from 1989 to 1993,[5] alongside fellow historians Neville Meaney and Shane White.[6][7] In 1996, Hoskins was awarded his PhD titled Cultivating the Citizen: Cultural Politics in the Parks and Gardens of Sydney, 1880-1930.[8]

In 2010, Hoskins won the Queensland Premier's Literary Prize for History with his first book Sydney Harbour: A History,[2] which went on to be republished in 2022.[9][10][11] His second book, Coast was the first history to be written on the New South Wales coast, receiving the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Prize for Community and Regional History in 2014.[12][13][14] Published in 2020, Hoskins' third book Rivers: The Lifeblood of Australia included a foreword by Don Watson and was long-listed for the 2021 Indie Book Awards.[15][16]

In the lead up to his latest work Australia & the Pacific: A History, Ian Hoskins became the State Library of NSW's 2019 CH Currey Fellow and studied their Pacific collections.[17] His Pacific book was shortlisted for the 2022 New South Wales Premier’s History Awards and won the Frank Broeze Memorial Maritime History Book Prize in 2023.[18][19] It was described by Ross Fitzgerald as a "captivating general history of Australia viewed in a Pacific context" and used the latest findings from archaeology, anthropology, history, and politics to explore Australia's relationship with its surrounding regions.[3][20]

He has worked as the local historian for North Sydney Council since 2003.[13] While chronicling North Sydney's history, Hoskins published "Was thinking of Home Today": North Sydney and the Great War which was shortlisted for the New South Wales Premier's History Awards for Local and Regional History in 2008.[21][22] Also aligned with his role on North Sydney Council, Ian Hoskins' website [23] won the National Trust Heritage Award for multimedia in 2015.[24]

Early life

Hoskins was born in Singapore to British parents,[citation needed] migrating to Sydney on Blue Star Line's MV Australasia in 1966.[25][26]

References

  1. ^ The Library of Congress. "Library of Congress LC Linked Data Service - Hoskins, Ian, 1962". id.loc.gov. Archived from the original on 10 April 2023. Retrieved 10 April 2023.
  2. ^ a b c "Ian Hoskins". Brisbane Writers Festival. Archived from the original on 14 September 2023. Retrieved 10 April 2023.
  3. ^ a b The Sydney Morning Herald (22 October 2021). "'A long and rich history': the near neighbours we seem to have forgotten - James Batley". The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 26 May 2023. Retrieved 26 May 2023.
  4. ^ State Library of New South Wales (25 July 2022). "Australia and the Pacific: A History". State Library of NSW. Archived from the original on 26 May 2023. Retrieved 26 May 2023.
  5. ^ "University of Sydney Calendar 1991 Vol 1". University of Sydney Archives. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
  6. ^ Hoskins, Ian (1991). Hazzard-Gordon, Katrina; Barlow, William (eds.). "Colonising the Margin: The Historiography of African-American Music and Dance". Australasian Journal of American Studies. 10 (2): 57–67. ISSN 1838-9554. JSTOR 41053607. Archived from the original on 10 August 2023. Retrieved 10 August 2023.
  7. ^ White, Professor Shane. "University of Sydney Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences - Shane White". Archived from the original on 10 August 2023. Retrieved 10 August 2023.
  8. ^ The University of Sydney. "Cultivating the Citizen: Cultural Politics in the Parks and Gardens of Sydney". Archived from the original on 14 September 2023. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
  9. ^ Australian National University Researchers. "Review of Sydney Harbour: A History by Ian Hoskins". researchers.anu.edu.au. Archived from the original on 26 May 2023. Retrieved 26 May 2023.
  10. ^ National Library of Australia. "National Library of Australia Bookshop". bookshop.nla.gov.au. Archived from the original on 26 May 2023. Retrieved 26 May 2023.
  11. ^ University of New South Wales. "Sydney Harbour: A History, new edition". UNSW Press. Archived from the original on 10 April 2023. Retrieved 10 April 2023.
  12. ^ NSW Premier’s History Awards. "Winners announced for 2014 NSW Premier's History Awards". Archived from the original on 26 May 2023. Retrieved 26 May 2023.
  13. ^ a b Professional Historians Association (NSW & ACT) (9 September 2014). "Five minutes with Ian Hoskins, winner of the 2014 NSW Community and Regional History Prize for his book, Coast, A History of the New South Wales Edge". www.phansw.org.au. Archived from the original on 10 April 2023. Retrieved 10 April 2023.
  14. ^ Traces Magazine (21 May 2014). "Review: Coast - A History of the New South Wales Edge by Ian Hoskins". Traces Magazine. Archived from the original on 26 May 2023. Retrieved 26 May 2023.
  15. ^ National Library of Australia. "Rivers: The Lifeblood of Australia – In Conversation with Ian Hoskins". National Library of Australia. Archived from the original on 26 May 2023. Retrieved 26 May 2023.
  16. ^ Indie Book Awards (8 December 2020). "2021 INDIE BOOK AWARDS Longlist". Indie Book Awards. Archived from the original on 26 May 2023. Retrieved 26 May 2023.
  17. ^ State Library of New South Wales (1 April 2021). "CH Currey Memorial Fellowship". State Library of NSW. Archived from the original on 31 March 2016. Retrieved 10 April 2023.
  18. ^ "Shortlists announced for 2022 NSW Premier's History Awards". State Library of New South Wales.
  19. ^ "Ian Hoskins Wins 2023 Frank Broeze Memorial Maritime History Book Prize". UNSW Press. 12 December 2023. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
  20. ^ State Library of New South Wales (25 July 2022). "2022 Australian History Prize - Australia and the Pacific: A History". State Library of NSW. Archived from the original on 26 May 2023. Retrieved 26 May 2023.
  21. ^ Australian War Memorial Collection. "'Was Thinking of Home Today...' : North Sydney and the Great War". Australian War Memorial. Archived from the original on 10 April 2023. Retrieved 10 April 2023.
  22. ^ "Was thinking of Home Today": North Sydney and the Great War". State Library of New South Wales. Archived from the original on 10 April 2023. Retrieved 10 April 2023.
  23. ^ "At Home in North Sydney: An Architectural History of Locality". North Sydney Council. Archived from the original on 2 July 2023. Retrieved 13 September 2023.
  24. ^ National Trust. "2016 NSW Heritage Awards Winners". National Trust. Archived from the original on 10 April 2023. Retrieved 10 April 2023.
  25. ^ "Ian Hoskins". id.oclc.org. Archived from the original on 14 September 2023. Retrieved 10 April 2023.
  26. ^ Blue Star Line. "Australasia". Blue Star Line. Archived from the original on 10 April 2023. Retrieved 10 April 2023.