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Significant Aboriginal objects come back to Country after 200 years

Friday
Friday 6 October 2023

Aboriginal communities, families, Elders and makers will for the first time have direct access to 30 ancestral objects.

NSW Premier’s History Award winners announced

Thursday
Thursday 7 September 2023

$85,000 in prize money was awarded as part of NSW History Week. 

First biography of one of Australia’s finest poets, wins nation’s richest biography prize

Wednesday
Wednesday 9 August 2023

Ann-Marie Priest’s “perceptive” and “creative” biography of the elusive Gwen Harwood, one of Australia’s finest poets, is the winner of this year’s $25,000 National Biography Award.

Shortlists announced for 2023 NSW Premier’s History Awards

Friday
Friday 4 August 2023

Eleven judges considered 186 entries across the six prize categories.

Historical town plans from across regional NSW now available online

Thursday
Thursday 20 July 2023

Over 4,600 historic plans of 460 regional towns in NSW — from Bourke to Bega — have just been digitised!