BWB congratulates Lucy Mackintosh on being awarded the 2022 Ian Wards Prize for her book Shifting Grounds: Deep Histories of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Watch a video of the online prize giving.
The Ian Wards Prize honours the outstanding contributions to the Archives and Records Association of New Zealand Te Huinga Mahara (ARANZ), to cultural life generally, and to New Zealand historical scholarship, of the late Ian McLean Wards, Chief Government Historian between 1968 and 1983. This annual prize recognises a published work which makes substantial, imaginative and exemplary use of New Zealand archives and records. Read more about the prize and previous recipients here.