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Stephen Gapps
Stephen Gapps is a historian and museum curator with a long-standing interest in public history, the history of historical re-enactments and commemorations of the past. His most recent book is The Sydney Wars: Conflict in the Early Colony, 1788–1817 (2018). He has taught Public History at the University of Technology, Sydney and worked as a consultant historian in heritage, museums, film, television and history events. In 2011 he won an NSW Premiers History Award and in 2016 was awarded the NSW State Library Merewether Fellowship. Stephen is currently lead curator developing a new permanent gallery display that explores deep time, environmental and Indigenous histories at the Australian National Maritime Museum.