Newington College has been honoured with an award for the four-page broadsheet feature, ‘Newington College Celebrates 150 Years’, published with the Sydney Morning Herald on 23 July 2013.

The award was made by the Australian Society of Archivists, Inc. as part of its annual Phyllis Mander Jones Awards for 2013 publications. This award was for the ‘Best publication to engage and communicate with clients or potential clients of an Australian archive or archival collection about Australia’.

The Herald feature was the product of work by a range of people, including the Communications and Admissions teams, the College Archivist, and our partners TMS Media & Advertising and Pixeloco. The feature made extensive use of the College’s wonderful archives collection, both for the text and in the use of 75 archival images.

College Archivist David Roberts accepted the award on behalf of the College at the Society’s conference (held this year in conjunction with the Archives & Records Association of New Zealand) in Christchurch on 30 September 2014.

Two other schools also received Mander Jones Awards. Trinity Grammar School’s book, Trinity Grammar School: A Centennial Portrait — Mind, Body, Spirit, won the award for the best publication by a smaller archives institution; while The Hutchins School in Hobart was Highly Commended for its book, Character Unbound: A History of The Hutchins School, in the same category.

Congratulations David!