General History Prize

Last updated:  02 April 2024
Submissions open

The General History Prize ($15,000) is for a major work of non-fiction on international history.

2024

Submissions open

About the award

The General History Prize ($15,000) is for a major work of non-fiction, published in book or ebook form, on international history that is of national or international significance.

Past winners

2023

Book cover
    Winner
Under Empire: Muslim Lives and Loyalties Across the Indian Ocean World, 1775–1945
Michael Francis Laffan
Columbia University Press

2022

The Filipino Migration Experience: Global Agents of Change
    Winner
The Filipino Migration Experience: Global Agents of Change
Mina Roces
Cornell University Press

2021

The Wardian Case
    Winner
The Wardian Case: How a Simple Box Moved Plants and Changed the World
Luke Keogh
The University of Chicago Press and Kew Publishing

2020

    Winner
The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist
Kate Fullagar
Yale University Press

2019

cover image of sea people
    Winner
Sea People
Christina Thompson
Harper

2018

On the Stump: Campaign Oratory and Democracy in the United States, Britain, and Australia by Sean Scalmer
    Winner
On the Stump
Sean Scalmer
Temple University Press

2017

Japanese War Criminals cover
    Winner
Japanese War Criminals
Sandra Wilson , Robert Cribb, Beatrice Trefalt and Dean Aszkielowicz
Columbia University Press

Award Information

Annual

The General History Prize is awarded as a part of the NSW Premier's History Awards.

Learn more

$15,000

For more information, please contact the Awards team.

awards@sl.nsw.gov.au

Phone: (02) 9273 1767, or alternatively (02) 9273 1770.