Labour History Prizes 2025

Ferguson Prize: Best Article on an Interwar Topic/Theme

WINNER: Padraic Gibson, “Communists and the 1933 Campaign That Ended Frontier Massacres in Australia,” Labour History, no. 126 (May 2024): 47–71.

Bob Gollan Prize: Best Article by a Post-Graduate Student or Early-Career Academic

WINNER: Tamsin O’Connor, “The Colonial Ambiguities of Military Labour on the Penal Frontier: The Newcastle Penal Station 1804–24,” Labour History, no. 125 (November 2023): 109–38.

Edna Ryan Prize: Best article in Women’s History

WINNER: Estherine Adams, “‘At Work, in Hospital, or in Gaol’: Women in British Guiana’s Jails, 1838–1917,” Labour History, no. 125 (November 2023): 85–108.

GW Ford Award: Best Article on the Experience of Workers

WINNER: Alexandra Dellios, “The 1973 Migrant Workers’ Conference and Histories of Multiculturalism,” Labour History, no. 126 (May 2024): 139–61.

ASSLH/Unions NSW Prize in Labour History: Best Article Overall

WINNER: Padraic Gibson, “Communists and the 1933 Campaign That Ended Frontier Massacres in Australia,” Labour History, no. 126 (May 2024): 47–71.