Congratulations to all of the shortlisted and highly commended nominees for this year’s NSW Premier’s History Awards! As the State Library of NSW records on its website, ‘eleven judges considered 189 entries across the six prize categories’. AHA members were well-represented among the shortlisted and commended candidates:
- The Australian History Prize shortlist: Ryan Cropp, Donald Horne: A Life in the Lucky Country; Kate Fullagar, Bennelong & Phillip: A History Unravelled; Alecia Simmonds, Courting: An Intimate History of Love and the Law
- The Australian History Prize, highly commended: Alex Roginski, Science and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Tasman World: Popular Phrenology in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand; Jordy Silverstein, Cruel Care: A History of Children at Our Borders
- General History Prize shortlist: Bain Attwood, ‘A Bloody Difficult Subject’: Ruth Ross, te Tiriti o Waitangi and the Making of History; Hannah Forsyth, Virtue Capitalists: The Rise and Fall of the Professional Class in the Anglophone World, 1870–2008; Katharine E McGregor, Systemic Silencing: Activism, Memory, and Sexual Violence in Indonesia
- The New South Wales Community and Regional History Prize shortlist: Shauna Bostock, Reaching Through Time: Finding my family’s stories; Kate Fullagar, Bennelong & Phillip: A History Unravelled; Alastair Greig, The Road to Batemans Bay: Speculating on the South Coast During the 1840s Depression
- The Digital History Prize shortlist: Rachael Antony and Laurence Billiet, The Giants; Allan Clarke, Jacob Hickey, Darren Dale and Belinda Mravicic, The Dark Emu Story; Daryl Dellora, Jenny Hocking and Sue Maslin, The Search for the Palace Letters
- The Digital History Prize, highly commended: Matthew Bate, The Defenders; Nicole Cama, Nicholas Clark and Wing Pang, Liverpool Street, Darlinghurst
- The Young People’s History Prize: Mark Greenwood and Frané Lessac, Our Country: Where History Happened; Rebecca Lim, Two Sparrowhawks in a Lonely Sky; Isolde Martyn, Robyn Ridgeway and Louise Hogan, Country Town
- The Anzac Memorial Trustees Military History Prize shortlist: Kristen Alexander, Kriegies: The Australian Airmen of Stalag Luft III; Lucas Jordan, The Chipilly Six: Unsung heroes of the Great War; Chris Masters, Flawed Hero: Truth, lies and war crimes
The winners will be announced at an Awards ceremony at the State Library of NSW on Friday 6 September 2024. Congratulations and best of luck!