Congratulations to the shortlisted applicants for the 2024 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards in the Australian History category! AHA Vice-President Kate Fullagar‘s Bennelong & Phillip: A History Unravelled was among the shortlist, as was History Australia co-editor Alecia Simmonds’ Courting: An Intimate History of Love and the Law. The judging panel, which included AHA member Anna Clark, Treasurer Peter Hobbins and former president Lynette Russell, celebrated the ‘creative and original’ account of Bennelong & Phillip along with the ‘important’ and ‘fascinating’ scholarship in Courting. The recipient of the prize will be announced at the NLA on 12 September. Congratulations and best of luck, Kate and Alecia!