About the NHC

What is the National History Challenge?

The National History Challenge is an exciting contest that encourages students to use research and inquiry based learning to discover more about Australia and its past. Students are the historians, they can investigate their community, explore their own and their family’s past, explore major events that have taught Australia, as a nation, new ideas or theories. The Challenge encourages inquiry based learning, the use of primary and secondary sources and offers a variety of presentation styles that can cater to individual learning styles.

Who can enter the challenge?

Students from Years 5 to 12, 19 years of age or younger, in Australian schools submit their research and can progress from School to Regional to State / Territory and National finals.

Alix Biggs – 2009 Australian Young Historian