The Whitfield Prize

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The Whitfield Prize (or Whitfield Book Prize) is a prize of £1,000 awarded annually by the Royal Historical Society to the best work on a subject of British or Irish history published within the United Kingdom or Republic of Ireland during the calendar year. To be eligible for the award, the book must be the first history work published by the author.[1]

History of the prize[]

The prize was founded in 1976 out of the bequest of . Originally, the prize was £400; five years later, it was increased to £600.[2] Currently, the prize is £1,000.

Previous winners[]

Source: Royal Historical Society

Year Winner(s)
1977 , John Burns
1978 , The Queen's Two Bodies: Drama and the Elizabethan Succession
1979 Patricia Crawford, Denzil Holles, 1598–1680: A study of his Political Career
1980 , The Parliamentary Agents: A History
1981 , The Pilgrimage of Grace in the Lake Counties, 1536–7
1982 Norman L. Jones, Faith by Statute: Parliament and the Settlement of Religion, 1559
1983 Peter Clark, The English Alehouse: A social history, 1200–1830
1984 David Hempton, Methodism and Politics in British Society, 1750–1850
1985 K. D. M. Snell, Annals of the Labouring Poor
1986 Diarmaid MacCulloch, Suffolk and the Tudors: Politics and Religion in an English County, 1500–1600
1987 Kevin M. Sharpe, Criticism and Compliment: The politics of literature in the England of Charles I
1988 , Reforming London, the London Government Problem, 1855–1900
1989 , Medieval Westminster, 1200–1540
1990 , Political change and the Labour party, 1900–1918
1991 , Cheap Print and Popular Piety, 1550–1640
1992 Christine Carpenter, Locality and Polity: A Study of Warwickshire Landed Society, 1401 -1499
1993 , Commoners: common right; enclosure and social change in England, 1700- 1820
1994 Vic Gatrell, The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English people, 1770–1868
1995 , The Sense of the People: Politics, Culture and Imperialism in England, 1715–1785
1996 , Youth and Authority Formative Experience in England, 1560–1640
1997 , Domestic Biography: the legacy of evangelicalism in four nineteenth-century families
1998 Amanda Vickery, The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England
1999 , Understanding Popular Violence in the English Revolution: The Colchester Plunderers
2000 , Oral and Literate Culture in England, 1500–1700
2001 John Goodall, God's House at Ewelme: Life, Devotion and Architecture in a Fifteenth Century Almshouse
Frank Salmon, Building on Ruins: The Rediscovery of Rome and English Architecture
2002 Ethan H. Shagan, Popular Politics and the English Reformation
2003 , Patterns of Piety: Women, Gender and Religion in Late Medieval and Reformation England
2004 , Making English Morals: Voluntary Association and Moral reform in England, 1787–1886
2005 Matt Houlbrook, Queer London
2006 , Birth Control, Sex and Marriage in Britain, 1918–1960
2007 , The Earls of Mercia: Lordship and Power in Late Anglo-Saxon England
Duncan Bell, The Idea of Greater Britain: Empire and the Future of World Order, 1860–1900
2008 , George Canning and Liberal Toryism, 1801–1827
Frank Trentmann, Free Trade Nation: Commerce, Consumption and Civil Society in Modern Britain
2009 , The Price of Emancipation: Slave-Ownership, Compensation and British Society at the End of Slavery (Cambridge University Press, 2009) ISBN 978-0-521-11525-4
2010 , The Art of Hearing: English Preachers and their Audiences, 1590–1640 (Cambridge University Press, 2010) ISBN 978-0-521-89676-4
2011 , Godly Kingship in Restoration England: The Politics of the Royal Supremacy, 1660–1688 (Cambridge University Press, 2011) ISBN 978-1-107-01142-7
2012 , The Politics of Gender in Victorian Britain: Masculinity, Political Culture and the Struggle for Women's Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2012) ISBN 978-1-107-01507-4
2013 Scott Sowerby, Making Toleration: The Repealers and the Glorious Revolution (Harvard University Press, 2013) ISBN 978-0-674-07309-8
2014 Dating changed from "year published" to "year of award"
2015 , Officers and Accountability in Medieval England 1170-1300 (Oxford University Press, 2014) ISBN 978-0-199-64590-9
2016 , Princely Education in Early Modern Britain (Cambridge University Press, 2015) ISBN 978-1-107-03952-0
2017 , The Smoke of London: Energy and Environment in the Early Modern City (Cambridge University Press, 2016) ISBN 978-1-107-07300-5
, The Shape of the State in Medieval Scotland, 1124-1290 (Oxford University Press, 2016) ISBN 978-0-198-74920-2
2018 , Communications and British Operations on the Western Front, 1914-1918 (Cambridge University Press, 2017) ISBN 978-1-107-17055-1
2019 , Beyond Slavery and Abolition: Black British Writing, c.1770-1830 (Cambridge University Press, 2018) ISBN 978-1-108-47565-5
2020 , Ireland and the Great War: A Social and Political History (Bloomsbury, 2019) ISBN 978-1-788-31462-6
2021 , England’s Northern Frontier: Conflict and Local Society in the Fifteenth-Century Scottish Marches
, The Making of an Imperial Polity. Civility and America in the Jacobean Metropolis

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Whitfield Prize". Retrieved 6 September 2015.
  2. ^ "Whitfield Prize". Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. 33: 233. 1983. doi:10.1017/s0080440100015681.
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