for Kay Daniels (1941–2001), historian and public servant, and recognises her interest in colonial and heritage history. The biennial award will be administered by The Australian Historical Association. 2004: Lucy Frost and Hamish Maxwell-Stuart (eds) for Chain Letters: Narrating Convict Lives (Melbourne University Press) 2006: Trudy Mae Cowley for A Drift of 'Derwent Ducks: Lives of the 200 Female Irish Convicts Transported on the Australasia from Dublin to Hobart in 1849 (Research Tasmania, Hobart, 2005)Review 2008: Kirsty Reid for Gender, Crime and Empire: Convicts, Settlers and the State in Early Colonial Australia 2010: Hamish Maxwell-Stuart for Closing Hell's Gates: the Death of a Convict Station (Allen & Unwin 2008) 2014: Kristyn Harman for Aboriginal Convicts: Australian, Khoisan and Maori Exiles,(UNSW Press 2012) 2016: Sue Castrique for Under the Colony’s Eye: Gentlemen and Convicts on Cockatoo Island 1839–1869 (Anchor Books Australia, 2014) 2018: Joan Kavanagh and Dianne Snowden for Van Diemen’s Women: A History of Transportation to Tasmania (The History Press Ltd). 2020: Hilary Carey for Empire of Hell. Religion and the Campaign to End Convict Transportation in the British Empire, 1788–1875 (Cambridge University Press, 2019) 2022: Bill Bell for Crusoe’s Books: Readers in the Empire of Print 1800-1918 (Oxford University Press) The Serle Award The Serle Award was first presented in 2002. The award was established through the generosity of Mrs Jessie Serle for the historian Geoffrey Serle (1922–1998). The Serle Award is for the best thesis by an "early career researcher" and will be payable on receipt of publisher’s proofs, which must be within twelve months of notification of the award. The biennial award will be administered by The Australian Historical Association. See also New South Wales Premier's History Awards List of Australian literary awards List of history awards Victorian Community History Awards Northern Territory History Awards Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History Magarey Medal for biography Notes External links The Australian Historical Association AHA Prizes and Awards Australia history-related lists Australian non-fiction book awards History awards