Congratulations to Caroline Ingram for winning the the 2022 Ken Inglis Postgraduate Prize

Congratulations to Caroline Ingram who has been awarded the 2022 Ken Inglis Postgraduate Prize by Australian Historical Studies for the essay “There not being any place to keep her”: Incarcerating women in nineteenth century Western Australia’. The judges congratulated Ingram for ‘a superbly executed historical case study.’

Congratulations also to joint runners up Grace Brooks for the paper ‘Indigenous Labour History in Australian Film: The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978) and Sweet Country (2017)’, and Emma Carson for the paper “Do you know why he called her Spanner?”: Writing Sex and Innuendo in Second World War letters’.

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