Congratulations to Stephen Gapps, winner of the Australian War Memorial’s inaugural Les Carlyon Literary Prize for The Sydney Wars – Conflict in the early colony 1788-1817 (NewSouth, 2018). The Sydney Wars is an examination of conflict in the first years of the British settlement of New South Wales through the lens of military history.
Congratulations to Catherine Dewhirst and Richard Scully (editors) and all authors for the publication of The Transnational Voices of Australia’s Migrant and Minority Press (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). Featuring chapters from Catherine Dewhirst, Max Kaiser, Karen Agutter, Simone Battiston, and Hilary Berthon, this collection brings together the latest research on the cultural heritage of Australia’s migrant and minority community ‘voices’ through their printed presses, spanning the mid-nineteenth century to our current day.