Stephen Gapps

Stephen Gapps is a historian working to bring the Australian Frontier Wars into broader public recognition. In 2011 Stephen won a NSW Premier’s History Award for his book Cabrogal to Fairfield City: A history of a multicultural community. His 2018 title The Sydney Wars: Conflict in the early colony, 1788–1817 won the 2019 Les Carlyon Literary Prize. In 2021 Stephen published Gudyarra: The First Wiradyuri War of Resistance –the Bathurst War 1822–1824 and in 2025, Uprising: War in the Colony of NSW 1838–1844. Stephen is a historian at Artefact Heritage and Environment and Adjunct Lecturer at Charles Sturt University.