Stephen Gapps
Stephen Gapps third book on the Australian Frontier Wars is The Rising – War in the Colony of NSW 1838-1844, published in April 2025.
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Stephen Gapps
Stephen Gapps is an historian working to bring broader public recognition and commemoration of Australia’s Frontier Wars. In 2018 Stephen published the highly acclaimed The Sydney Wars – Conflict in the early colony 1788-1817. In 2020, The Sydney Wars was the inaugural winner of the Les Carlyon Award for the writing of military history. In 2021 he published Gudyarra The First Wiradyuri War of Resistance – The Bathurst War, 1822–1824 which traced the anti-colonial resistance warfare by Wiradyuri people that occurred across central west New South Wales. Gudyarra was shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s History Awards and Les Carlyon Award in 2022.
Stephen’s third book on the Australian Wars is The Rising – War in the Colony of NSW 1838-1844 and will be published by NewSouth press in April 2025. This history analyses the coordinated and extensive resistance that occurred right across the colony from present day Benalla in Victoria to southeast QLD.
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Close to Home: Colonial Violence and Family Histories
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