Australian History Prize

2022
Winners announced
2022
French Connection: Australia’s Cosmopolitan Ambitions
French Connection: Australia’s Cosmopolitan Ambitions
Alexis Bergantz
NewSouth
Winner
2022
Semut: The Untold Story of a Secret Australian Operation in WWII Borneo
Semut: The Untold Story of a Secret Australian Operation in WWII Borneo
Christine Helliwell
Penguin Random House Australia
Shortlisted
2022
Australia and the Pacific: A history
Australia and the Pacific: A History
Ian Hoskins
NewSouth
Shortlisted

Highly commended

2022
Australias great depression book cover
Australia's Great Depression
Joan Beaumont
Allen & Unwin
Highly commended
2022
cover image of spies and sparrows
Spies and Sparrows: ASIO and the Cold War
Phillip Deery
Melbourne University Publishing
Highly commended
2022
cover image of harlem nights
Harlem Nights: The Secret History of Australia’s Jazz Age
Deirdre O’Connell
Melbourne University Publishing
Highly commended

The Australian History Prize ($15,000) is for a major work of non-fiction, published in book or ebook form, on Australian history. Entries should address subjects of national significance. 

Past winners

2021
People of the River
People of the River: Lost Worlds of Early Australia
Grace Karskens
Allen & Unwin
Winner
2020
Book cover Bedlam at Botany Bay
Bedlam at Botany Bay
James Dunk
NewSouth Publishing
Winner
2019
cover image of the book the bible in australia
The Bible in Australia
Meredith Lake
NewSouth Publishing
Winner
2018
book cover image of the battle within
The Battle Within
Christina Twomey
NewSouth Publishing
Winner
2017
From the Edge Cover image
From the Edge
Mark McKenna
Melbourne University Publishing
Winner