UNBC graduate Rebecca Campbell has been honoured by the B.C. Historical Federation for her historical writing.
Campbell won the 2022-23 W. Kaye Lamb Award for Best Student Works in the third-and-fourth-year student category for her submission “I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t interested in old things”: Women’s ‘Amateur’ History-Making in British Columbia, 1950-1979. “Born and raised in Prince George, Rebecca has focused on British Columbian history throughout her four years of study, including environmental history, energy history, and social history,” a statement issed by the B.C. Historical Federation on Wednesday said. “Her specific interest in the work of amateur women historians in British Columbia stems from her experience working at northern BC memory institutions, the Central BC Railway and Forestry Museum, and the Northern BC Archives.
Campbell graduated from UNBC in April with a bachelor's degree in history and currently works at the Huble Homestead Historical Site. The W. Kaye Lamb Award is presented annually for post-secondary student essays and projects on the history of British Columbia.The awards were presented at the federation's annual awards gala in Princeton on July 22.