Nyungar Heritage of an “Orphan Letter”. 2019: Dr Robin Barrington for her journal article A Race War: Tracing emotions on the Murchison frontier in Western Australia 1880-1915. 2018: Joint Winners: Joanna Sassoon - Agents of Empire: How E.L. Mitchell's Photographs shaped Australia, & Leigh Straw - After the War: Returned Soldiers and the Mental and Physical Scars of WW1 2017: Criena Fitzgerald - Turning men into Stone: A Social and Medical History of Silicosis in Western Australia from 1890 to 1970 A list of all previous winners is available on SRO's website. Accessing the state's archives State archives held by the State Records Office of Western Australia can be accessed via the Reading Room on the third floor of the Alexander Library Building, in the Perth Cultural Centre. Online access and provision of digital copies are also available to the general public. Information about the records in the collection can be found using the SRO online catalogue. See also Archive National Archives of Australia Notes References "Towards a State Archive in Western Australia, 1903–1945", by Michael Nind, published in Early Days (Vol. 11, Pt. 3) in 1997. This article provides a concise account of the developments that led to the appointment of Mollie Lukis in 1945 as the State's first Archivist. "The Pre-history of the State Archives" : address by Sir Paul Hasluck Transcript of an address given by Sir Paul Hasluck in March 1982 to the Friends of Battye Library. The original recording also available from the State Library's Oral History Collection (OH1091) "The State Archives of Western Australia" by Tom Reynolds and Christopher Coggin, published in Western Perspectives: Library and Information Services in Western Australia (edited by Robert C. Sharman and Laurel A. Clyde) in 1990. External links Official site Information about the State Records Commission State Records Act 2000 Online Database National Archives Australia J. S. Battye Library Archives in Australia History of Western Australia Statutory agencies of Western Australia Perth Cultural Centre