Congratulations to our HDR students Ruby Ekkel, Saskia Roberts and Zoe Smith:

Ruby Ekkel was awarded the Max Kelly award in the History Council of NSW Annual History Awards for her essay ‘What comes of the kangaroos and the wallabies?’ A gendered history of native animals and the New South Wales Bands of Mercy movement, 1884-1923. 

Saskia Roberts was highly commended for the same award for her essay ‘The world was being opened to me’: Where Did I Come From?, girls’ reading and sexual knowledge in Australia’.

Zoe Smith received the Jill Roe Awardfor Regional History for her essay, ‘No Place for a Woman’: Historicising rural, regional, and remote domestic violence in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Australia.

The awards were presented on 9 September at the Customs House in Sydney. More information.