Congratulations to Matthew Firth and Aditya Balasubramanian, recipients of the 2025 ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award. Matthew’s project, entitled ‘Contesting Conquests: Pre-Modern Attempts to Come to Terms with the Past’, will provide ‘extensive new knowledge about how societies experience and remember the trauma of conquest and colonisation’. Aditya’s project, entitled ‘Roads and Road Transport in India: An Environmental and Economic History’, will examine ‘how roadbuilding and transportation has spurred economic progress and driven environmental change in India’. The AHA sincerely congratulates Matthew and Aditya on their success and sends its best wishes to all the other worthy and deserving applicants who applied in this round.