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NSW Community and Regional History Prize

2020
Winners announced

2020 Winner and shortlist

The New South Wales Community and Regional History Prize ($15,000) is for a major work of non-fiction, published in book or ebook form, that makes a significant contribution to the understanding of community, institutional, urban or regional history in New South Wales.

Past winners and shortlists

2019

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Cage of Ghosts
Jon Rhodes
Jon Rhodes
Winner
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Callan Park, Hospital for the Insane
Sarah Luke
Australian Scholarly Publishing
Shortlisted
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Hunter Wine
Julie McIntyre and John Germov
NewSouth Publishing
Shortlisted

2018

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Hidden in Plain View
Paul Irish
NewSouth Publishing
Winner
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Terminus
Shirley Fitzgerald
Ventura Press
Shortlisted
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River Dreams
Ian Tyrrell
NewSouth Publishing
Shortlisted

2017

Front cover Stories from the Sandstone
Stories from the Sandstone
Peter Hobbins, Ursula K Frederick and Anne Clarke
Arbon Publishing
Winner
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The House that Jack Built
James Colman
NewSouth Publishing
Shortlisted
Front Cover Sex Crimes in the Fifties
Sex Crimes in the Fifties
Lisa Featherstone and Amanda Kaladelfos
Melbourne University Publishing
Shortlisted