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2024
Submissions open

The Digital History Prize ($15,000, formerly the Multimedia History Prize) for an Australian historian’s interpretation of an historical subject, using non-print media. Entries could include a feature-length fiction film, a documentary film, a documentary for radio or television, a DVD, website, podcast, application for mobile/handheld device or other form of multimedia. This award will be judged on the quality of historical research and analysis, artistic merit and effective and appropriate use of the medium. The production should communicate its subject in ways that engage and enlighten audiences and should encourage an interest in and appreciation for history.

Past winners

2023
Cover image of The Australian Wars
Blackfella Films
Winner
2022
image of graphic of the last outlaws podcast
Impact Studios, the University of Technology Sydney
Winner
2021
FREEMAN
General Strike and Matchbox Pictures
Winner
2020
Image still from Experiment Street
ABC Radio National: The History Listen
Winner
2019
the killing times image
Guardian Australia
Winner
2018
we don't need a map poster image
Barefoot Communications
Winner
2017
Image Amboyna Conspiracy Trial
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
Winner