ASSH Honours and Awards Committee inducted Bernard Whimpress OAM as an ASSH Fellow at Sporting Traditions XXV Conference 2025, Bond University, Gold Coast. ASSH acknowledges the long, diverse and outstanding contributions made by Bernard to the history of sport. Details of Fellow citation.
ASSH Book Awards 2025 Winners
ASSH congratultions 2025 ASSH Book Awards winners.
- ASSH Book Award- Line and Length: A History of the Geelong Cricket Club. Line and Length was written by Tony Joel and Mathew Turner and published in 2024 by Slattery Books.
- Inaugural ASSH Public History Book Award- Celestial Footy: The Story of Chinese Heritage Aussie Rules. Celestial Footy was written by Patrick Skene and published by Hardie Grant in 2023.
ASSH Honours and Awards Committee report on 2025 ASSH Book Awards.
Congratulations to Bernard Whimpress OAM
Bernard was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) on 9 June 2025 for ” services to literature as sportswriter and author”.Details of citation.
ASSH Student Article Award (2023-2025) Winner Announced
The Honours and Awards Committee is pleased to announce that the ASSH Student Article Award (2023-2025) has been won by Ruby Ekkel for her article “The Meaning of a Bushwalk with the Melbourne Women’s Walking Club” which was published in Australian Historical Studies on 14 October 2024 (https://doi.org/10.1080/1031461X.2024.2406839). Further information about the successful winner and article.
ASSH Awards 2023
ASSH Book, Anthology, Student Article and Service Awards close on 25 May 2023. More information.
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