Whitfield Book Prize

Given by Royal Historical Society

44 Works 1,270 Books 9 Reviews ½ 3.9
Awarded by the Royal Historical Society
The Royal Historical Society annually since 1977 offers the Whitfield prize (value £1,000) for a new book on British history. To be eligible for consideration show more the book must be on a subject within a field of British history and have been published in the United Kingdom during the calendar year. It must also be its author's first solely written book and be an original and scholarly work of historical research.
RHS awards webpage
Two awards made in 2001 show less
Years:
All, 2021 (2), 2020 (1), 2019 (1), 2018 (1), 2017 (2), 2016 (1), 2015 (1), 2013 (1), 2012 (1), 2011 (1), 2010 (1), 2009 (1), 2008 (1), 2007 (1), 2006 (1), 2005 (1), 2004 (1), 2003 (1), 2002 (1), 2001 (1), 2000 (1), 1999 (1), 1998 (1), 1997 (1), 1995 (1), 1994 (1), 1993 (1), 1992 (1), 1991 (1), 1989 (1), 1988 (1), 1987 (1), 1986 (1), 1985 (1), 1984 (1), 1983 (1), 1982 (1), 1981 (1), 1980 (1), 1979 (1), 1978 (1), 1977 (1)
WorkYear
England's Northern Frontier: Conflict and Local Society in the Fifteenth-Century Scottish Marches: 118 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series, Series Number 118) by Jackson W. Armstrong
2021
The Making of an Imperial Polity: Civility and America in the Jacobean Metropolis (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History) by Lauren Working
2021
Ireland and the Great War : a social and political history by Niamh Gallagher
2020
Beyond slavery and abolition : Black British writing, c. 1770-1830 by Ryan Hanley
2019
Communications and British Operations on the Western Front, 1914–1918 (Cambridge Military Histories) by Brian N. Hall
2018
The Smoke of London: Energy and Environment in the Early Modern City by William M. Cavert
2017
The Shape of the State in Medieval Scotland, 1124-1290 (Oxford Studies in Medieval European History) by Alice Taylor
2017
Princely education in early modern Britain by Aysha Pollnitz
2016
Officers and accountability in medieval England 1170-1300 by John Sabapathy
2015
Making Toleration: The Repealers and the Glorious Revolution by Scott Sowerby
2013
The Politics of Gender in Victorian Britain: Masculinity, Political Culture and the Struggle for Women's Rights by Ben Griffin
2012
Godly Kingship in Restoration England: The Politics of The Royal Supremacy, 1660-1688 by Jacqueline Rose
2011
The Art of Hearing: English Preachers and their Audiences, 1590-1640 by Arnold Hunt
2010
The Price of Emancipation: Slave-Ownership, Compensation and British Society at the End of Slavery by Nicholas Draper
2009
Free Trade Nation: Commerce, Consumption, and Civil Society in Modern Britain by Frank Trentmann
2008
The Earls of Mercia: Lordship and Power in Late Anglo-Saxon England (Oxford Historical Monographs) by Stephen Baxter
2007
Birth Control, Sex and Marriage in Britain, 1918-1960 by Kate Fisher
2006
Queer London by Matt Houlbrook
2005
Making English Morals by M. J. D. Roberts
2004
Patterns of Piety: Women, Gender and Religion in Late Medieval and Reformation England by Christine Peters
2003
Popular Politics and the English Reformation by Ethan H. Shagan
2002
God's House at Ewelme by John Goodall
2001
Oral and Literate Culture in England, 1500-1700 by Adam Fox
2000
Understanding Popular Violence in the English Revolution by John Walter
1999
The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England by Amanda Vickery
1998
Domestic Biography: The Legacy of Evangelicalism in Four Nineteenth-Century Families (Oxford Historical Monographs) by Christopher Tolley
1997
The Sense of the People by Kathleen Wilson
1995
The Hanging Tree by V. A. C. Gatrell
1994
Commoners: Common Right, Enclosure and Social Change in England, 1700-1820 by J. M. Neeson
1993
Locality and Polity: A Study of Warwickshire Landed Society, 1401-1499 by Christine Carpenter
1992
Cheap Print and Popular Piety, 1550-1640 by Tessa Watt
1991
Medieval Westminster, 1200-1540 by Gervase Rosser
1989
Reforming London : the London government problem, 1855-1900 by John Davis
1988
Criticism and Compliment: The Politics of Literature in the England of Charles I by Kevin Sharpe
1987
Suffolk and the Tudors by Diarmaid MacCulloch
1986
Annals of the Labouring Poor by K. D. M. Snell
1985
Methodism and Politics in British Society, 1750-1850 by David Hempton
1984
The English alehouse : a social history, 1200-1830 by Peter Alan Clark
1983
Faith by Statute by N. Jones
1982
The Pilgrimage of Grace in the Lake Counties: 1536-37 by S.M. Harrison
1981
The Parliamentary Agents: A History by D.L. Rydz
1980
Denzil Holles, 1598-1680 by Patricia Crawford
1979
The Queen's Two Bodies: Drama and the Elizabethan Succession (Royal Historical Society Studies in History ; No. 5) by Marie Axton
1978
John Burns (Royal Historical Society Studies in History) by Kenneth D. Brown
1977

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