A commendation in the 2025 Public History Award category was awarded on the night to Dr Kath Kenny for her creative essay Walking on Water

Please join us in congratulating Kath!

Read 'Walking on Water' and Kath's statement via buff.ly/oPiYLzJ

📷 Tim Harris, TWH Photography

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This year we are excited to present our new history award, the HCNSW History Week Award

We are thrilled to announce that the 2025 History Week Award, awarded for events in 2024, goes to the Port Macquarie Historical Society for their exhibition, Marking the Moment!

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We are thrilled this year to be able to present a Commendation for the Public History award category, which goes to Dr Kath Kenny for this experimental and playful work that blends history and creative non-fiction, entitled 'Walking on Water'

Please join us in congratulating Kath!

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We are delighted to announce that the First Prize for the Public History Award goes to Jane Curtis for her audio documentary, Kangaroo Dog!

We congratulate Jane on this award, and encourage everyone to listen to the documentary through the ABC Listen app!

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The judges also awarded a Commendation for the Jill Roe Regional History Award to Dr Meg Foster, for her engaging podcast, 'Sam Poo: a Chinese Bushranger?'

Congratulations Dr Meg Foster!

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The winner of the 2025 Jill Roe Regional History Award is Zoe Smith for her essay, No Place for a Woman’: Historicising rural, regional, and remote domestic violence in late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century Australia

Please join us in congratulating Zoe!

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The judges also awarded a Commendation for the Max Kelly Award to Saskia Roberts, for 'The world was being opened to me’: Where Did I Come From?, girls’ reading and sexual knowledge in Australia’

Please join us in congratulating Saskia!

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