Congratulations to School of History HDR student, Jessica Urwin, who was awarded the Australian Historical Association’s Jill Roe prize for ‘”The old colonial power can stand proxy”: The Royal Commission into British Nuclear Tests in Australia and the politics of the 1980s.

This prize recognised the best article-length unpublished essay by a postgraduate. Congratulations, too, to Jess’s supervisor, Professor Angela Woollacott.

To read the citation, visit: 

https://theaha.org.au/jill-roe-prize-4/