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ARANZ Awards

ARANZ recognises exceptional achievement and service to the association and contributions to the profession, via the awarding of an annual prize for an outstanding essay, and an outstanding piece of published writing that utilises archives and records.

THE MICHAEL STANDISH PRIZE

The Michael Standish Prize honours the first permanent Chief Archivist of the National Archives, and architect of the 1957 Archives Act. He can be considered the father figure of the modern Archives New Zealand. It is awarded biennially. 

This prize recognises an outstanding essay, by an ARANZ member who is a New Zealand archivist or records manager, dealing with some facet of archives or records administration, history, theory and, or methodology and published in Archifacts or another recognised archives, records management, or other appropriate journal or form within New Zealand or internationally. 

ARANZ Council is delighted to advise that the prize has been increased to $500.   

Please send your nominations for the Michael Standish Prize to: Tom Riley

Year AwardedRecipientEssay Title
2001Janine Delaney"Redefining the Role for Collecting Archives in an Electronic Paradigm"
2003Chris Hurley"Recordkeeping, Document Destruction,and the Law" (published in Archives & Manuscripts, Nov, 2002).
2005Adam StapletonContinuum in Context: Post-Eighteenth Century Archival Theory and the Records Continuum Model(published in Archifacts April 2005)
2006David Colquhoun"The pioneers are steadily passing to the great beyond" : early collecting and the National Historical Collection"(published in Archifacts October 2005.)
2009Virginia Gow"One prison cell per government department"? An overview of the post-modern approach to archival theory. (published in Archifacts, 2008)
2011Kay Sanderson"Personal archives and chaotic conceptions" (published in Archifacts, October 2010)
2013Dr Susan Skudder"Appraising Land Information New Zealand's legacy paper records", Archifacts, April 2011
2015Ken Scadden"The Marists and Māori - Records of a 175 Year Relationship", Archifacts, October 2013
2016Jared Davidson"The Colonial Continnuum: Archives, Access, and Power", Archifacts, April 2015 [special ARANZ40 award]
2018Belinda Battley"Rights in records for children in out-of-home care”, Archifacts, April -October 2017
2020Elizabeth Charlton"Reappraisal and deaccessioning: Applying a ‘Dangerous Practices’ in New Zealand", Reappraisal and Deaccessioning in Archives and Special Collections, 2019
2022Valerie LovePreserving Personal Social Media Accounts, Now and into the Future

THE IAN WARDS PRIZE

The Ian Wards Prize honours the contribution to New Zealand scholarship of Ian McLean Wards, Chief Government Historian between 1968 and 1983, and, through his actions and unceasing advocacy over a period of more than 50 years, one of the principal architects of New Zealand’s modern archives system. 

This annual prize recognises a published work which makes substantial, imaginative and exemplary use of New Zealand archives and records. The publication must appropriately and fully reference the archives and records used. 

ARANZ Council is delighted to advise that the prize has been increased to $500. Works published in New Zealand in 2023, which meet the above criteria, are eligible for entry. 

Please send your nominations for the 2024 Ian Wards Prize to: Tom Riley before 31 March 2024.

Year Awarded

    

Recipient

   

Publication Title

2001

Bary Gustafson

His Way: A Biography of Robert Muldoon

2002

Jim McAloon

No Idle Rich: the wealthy in Canterbury& Otago, 1840-1914

2003

Philip Temple

A Sort of Conscience

2004

Malcolm McKinnon

Treasury: The New Zealand Treasury, 1840-2000

2005

Greg Ryan

The Making of New Zealand Cricket 1832-1914

2006

Melanie Nolan

Kin : a collective biography of a working-class New Zealand

2009

Jock Phillips & T.J. Hearn

Settlers: New Zealand immigrants from England, Oreland and Scotland, 1800-1945

2010

Adrian Humphris & Geoff Mew

Ring around the city: Wellington’s new suburbs, 1900-1930

2011

A.R.H. Jones

Doing well and doing good: Ross & Glendining, Scottish enterprise in New Zealand

2012 - Joint Award

Robert Peden

Making Sheep Country: Mt Peel Station and the Making of the Tussock Lands (AUP)

Charlotte Macdonald

Strong, Beautiful and Modern: National Fitness in Britain, New Zealand, Australia and Canada (BWB)

2013

Alison Clarke

Born to a Changing World: Childbirth in Nineteenth Century New Zealand (BWB)

2014

Peter Holland

Home in the Howling Wilderness: Settlers and the Environment in Southern New Zealand (Otago UP)

2015

Tom Brooking

Richard Seddon: King of God's Own: the Life and times of New Zealand's Longest Serving Prime Minister (Penguin)

2016

Donald Kerr

Hocken: Prince of Collectors (OtagoUP)

2017

Jessie Munro

Voices of belonging : a history of Clevedon-TeWairoa (Steele Roberts Aotearoa)

2018 - Joint Award

Shaunnagh Dorset

Juridical Encounters: Maori and the Colonial Courts 1840-1852 (AUP)

Jane McCabe

Race, Tea and Colonial Settlement: Imperial Families, Interrupted (Bloomsbury)

2019

Roger Blackley

Galleries of Maoriland: Artists, Collectors and the Māori (World Auckland University Press)

2020

Sarah Gaitanos

Shirley Smith: an Examined Life (Victoria University Press, Wellington)

2021

Vivien Edwards

A Path Through The Trees: Mary Sutherland - Forester, Botanist and Women's Advocate (Writes Hill Press, Wellington)

2022

Lucy Mackintosh

Shifting Grounds: Deep Histories of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland (BWB)

2023

Pamela Wood

New Zealand Nurses: Caring for Our People 1880-1950

2024

Richard S Hill Steven Loveridge

Secret History: State Surveillance in New Zealand, 1900-1956