Congratulations to Jared Davidson, winner of the 2024 Bert Roth Award! Jared received this accolade for his 2023 book Blood & Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand (Bridget Williams Books). The award, presented annually by the Labour History Project, celebrates the work that best depicts the history of work and resistance in New Zealand published in the previous calendar year. The judges welcomed Jared’s ‘fine story-telling and analysis’, which offers ‘a heightened awareness of how much the everyday lives of New Zealanders have been shaped by prison labour’. Congratulations, Jared!