2009 Clio Award Winners
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The 2009 ACT Minister of Education's Prize for the Best Essay in Contemporary History:
Lindsay Nailer - Education Under Castro
The ADFA Prize for the Best Essay in Modern History:
Deb Mak - Peter I and Catherine II
The ACU Prize for the Best Essay in Medieval and Renaissance History:
James Batchelor -
Intellectual Activity in the Middle Ages
The ANU Prize for the Best Essay in Ancient History:
Ursula Cliff - The Roman Theatre
The Editors' Prize
for Overall Contribution to Clio:
Lauren George
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The rivalry between Lucius Cornelius Sulla and Gaius Marius was one of the most intense in the history of the Roman Republic. >>>
The 17th and 18th centuries saw the modernisation of Russia as it began to adopt the customs and ideals of the Western European nations. This change could not have occurred without the reigns of Peter I and Catherine II. >>>
From the 1st of May 1981 until the 3rd of October, a period of less than six months, ten men starved themselves to death for the Irish Republican cause. Ultimately, the Republican’s goal was to reunite Ireland and the first step towards this was to publicly discredit and dislodge Britain from Northern Ireland. >>>
Even after their conversion to Christianity the Norse were accused of being Pagans. >>>
It is important to understand which aspects of “the road to Auschwitz” and the “Final Solution” were deliberate and planned, and which were sometimes hasty reactions to events. >>>
The writer and statesman Pliny the Younger (C. Plinius Caecilius Secundus) is an eminent source on Roman society and politics during the first century C.E.
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While the International Criminal Court is a creation of the twenty-first century, its origins are deeply rooted in contemporary international history. >>>
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The theme for the 2010
National History Challenge is "Celebrations, Memories & History." >>>
27/3/2010: Why the Dreyfus affair matters >>>
11/3/2010: Twenty-five years ago today, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was elected General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union by a unanimous vote of the CPSU Politburo. >>>
4/3/2010: Decoding the Cold War, 20 years later. >>>
20/2/2010: Doubts have been raised about claims made in The Last Train From Hiroshima by Charles Pellegrino. >>>
19/2/2010: The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during the Prohibition with deadly consequences. >>>
13/2/2010: Queen Victoria's passion for nudity goes on display in a new art exhibition. >>>
3/2/2010: S. M. Plokhy's Yalta: The Price of Peace reviewed. >>>
3/2/2010: Richard Evans’s new study of the historical profession in Britain serves as a timely reminder of what Britain’s historians have achieved over the past half-century. >>>
30/1/2010: War, revolution, Dreyfus and an era of religious and political turmoil in France. >>>
29/1/2010: The Red Coats are coming, nobody's home. Thomas Jefferson's
wartime 'dark period' was marked by inglorious retreats. >>>
28/1/2010: Howard Zinn, Historian, Is Dead at 87. >>>
24/12/2009: Brewing up a civilization: alcohol's neolithic origins. >>>
24/12/2009: 1688: The First Modern Revolution by Steven Pincus reviewed. >>>
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