The Annual Margaret Medcalf Award

The annual Margaret Medcalf Award recognises excellence in referencing and research in the use of State Archives held by the State Records Office of Western Australia.

It honours Ms Margaret Medcalf OAM, Western Australia’s second State Archivist (1971 to 1989), for her valuable contribution to the development of archives in Western Australia. The winner of this Award receives a cash prize of $1000, or shares this prize if there is more than one winner. Works nominated for the Award must demonstrate use of archival sources, and substantial (but not necessarily exclusive) use of State Archives held by the State Records Office.

Any work completed or published in 2020 that has used State archives is eligible to be submitted for nomination, and anyone, including the author of the work, may submit a nomination. Nominated works may be fiction or non-fiction and may comprise any format (i.e. book, article, conference paper, website, index, etc).

To submit a nominated work please complete the 2021 Margaret Medcalf Award Nomination Form and email it to sro@sro.wa.gov.au along with the work, or an online link to the work. If the work is only in print form, please advise when nominating.

Nominations must be received by 4:00pm Friday 25 June 2021.
https://www.wa.gov.au/government/announcements/margaret-medcalf-award