Gender:
Female
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In 2009 Johnston was selected as one the Weekend Australian Magazine's ten 'Emerging Leaders' in the 'Learning' category.
Personal Awards
- 2022 recipient Queensland Memory Awards — John Oxley Library Fellowship — Honorary Fellowship
- 2022 recipient John Oxley Library Fellowship — John Oxley Library Honorary Fellow for 'History and Fiction: Mapping frontier violence in colonial Queensland writing'.
Awards for Works
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The Paper War: Morality, Print Culture and Power in Colonial New South Wales
Crawley
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UWA Publishing
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2011
Z1814670
2011
single work
biography
'In February 1832 Rev. Threlkeld was named as one of the "perpetual blisters" that the London Missionary Society seemed "destined to carry". Lancelot Threkkeld, a working-class British subject, had lobbied his way to the colonies where he set up the Lake Macquarie mission in New South Wales. It was here that controversies, arguments, tempers and debates abounded, resulting in a very public "paper war".
'This engaging and intelligent book delves into the diverse and voluminous body of texts produced by and about Threlkeld from 1825-41. It identifies an influential network of British Empire men who were as crucial to the humanitarian debate as they were to the destruction of Threlkeld's mission.
'A web of intrigue, corruption, slander, whistleblowing and backstabbing, The Paper War is an eye-opener to colonial Australia.' (From the publisher's website.)
- 2012 shortlisted The Australian Historical Association Awards — Kay Daniels Award
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