The principal purpose of the Merewether Fellowship is to encourage and support the use of the State Library of NSW's collections for the study and research of Australian history in writing and publication amongst scholars, researchers and the wider community, including internationally. 

$12,000 - The research and writing of 19th-century NSW history using the resources of the State Library of NSW.

The specific focus of the Merewether Scholarship will be for research associated with the nineteenth-century history of NSW. 

The Merewether Fellowship was established in 2007 through the generous benefaction of Edward John Merewether, great-great-nephew of David Scott Mitchell. The Fellowship celebrates the centenary year of Mitchell’s bequest of his collection to the Library.

Mr Merewether, who died in 2008, was a longstanding and generous supporter of the Library. He both volunteered at the Library, and donated historical family memorabilia and documents associated with the Merewether and Mitchell families.

It is expected that Merewether Fellows will:

• be experienced researchers who are able to demonstrate a successful record of scholarship, publications and research outcomes
• be able to demonstrate a high-level capacity to promote their work through a variety of media channels in collaboration with the Library
• agree that the Fellowship is a priority during their tenure and that a concentrated period of effort, in the one-year tenure, will be made to deliver the Fellowship
• actively promote the research undertaken during their tenure
• make a presentation about the project at the conclusion of the Fellowship
• ensure any publications, outcomes or media coverage which result from the Fellowship prominently acknowledge the support of the Library and the Fellowship
• contribute to Library's print and online publications
• submit, to the Mitchell Librarian, a four-page summary of their completed project, copies of any research outcomes (presentations and publications) and a bibliography
• acquit their Fellowship in a timely manner.

• Phone: 02 9273 1765
• Email: scholarship.library@sl.nsw.gov.au