Ian Hoskins

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Dr Ian Rowland Hoskins (born in 1962) is a noted Australian historian and award-winning author based in Sydney.^[1][2] His books are nationally recognised for their thematic surveying of social, cultural and geographical history.^[3][4][5]

In 2010, Hoskins won the History with his first book Sydney Harbour: A History, which went on to be republished in 2022 and acclaimed by the likes of Peter Cochrane and Ross Fitzgerald.^[6][7] His second book, Coast was the first history to be written on the New South Wales coast, receiving the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Prize^[8][9] Published in 2020, Hoskins' third book Rivers: The Lifeblood of Australia included a foreword by Don Watson and was long-listed for the 2021 Indie Book Awards^[10].

In the lead up to his latest work Australia & the Pacific: A History, Ian Hoskins became the State Library of NSW's CH Currey Fellow and studied their extensive Pacific collections.^[11] His Pacific book was shortlisted for the 2022 New South Wales Premier’s History Awards, described by Ross Fitzgerald as ^[12][13]

Early life and career[edit]

Ian Hoskins was born in Singapore to British parents, migrating to Sydney on Blue Star Line's MV Australasia in 1966.^[14][15] He went on to study at the University of Sydney and taught American History there as an academic from 1989 to 1993, alongside fellow historians Neville Meaney and Shane White.^[16] In 1996, Hoskins was awarded his PhD titled Cultivating the Citizen: Cultural Politics in the Parks and Gardens of Sydney, 1880-1930. ^[17][18]

Ian has worked as the local historian for North Sydney Council since 2003. While chronicling North Sydney's history, Hoskins published "Was thinking of Home Today": North Sydney and the Great War which was shortlisted for the New South Wales Premier's History Awards for Local and Regional History in 2008.^[19][20] Also aligned with his role on North Sydney Council, Ian Hoskins' website At Home in North Sydney: An Architectural History of Locality won the National Trust Heritage Award for multimedia in 2015.^[21]

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