Congratulations to AHA members shortlisted for the 2016 NSW Premier’s History Awards, in the following categories:
Australian History Prize:
Frank Bongiorno, The Eighties: The Decade That Transformed Australia
Alison Holland, Just Relations: The Story of Mary Bennett’s Crusade for Aboriginal Rights
Stuart Macintyre, Australia’s Boldest Experiment: War and Reconstruction in the 1940s
General History Prize:
Ann McGrath, Illicit Love: Interracial Sex and Marriage in the United States and Australia
New South Wales Community and Regional History Prize:
Tanya Evans, Fractured Families: Life on the Margins in Colonial New South Wales
The winners will be announced on 2 September 2016. Full details.