Whitfield-priset

Whitfield -priset (eller Whitfield Book Prize ) är ett pris på £1 000 som årligen delas ut av Royal Historical Society till det bästa verket om ett ämne av brittisk eller irländsk historia som publicerats inom Storbritannien eller Irland under kalenderåret. För att vara berättigad till priset måste boken vara det första historiska verket som publicerats av författaren.

Prisets historia

Priset grundades 1976 efter arv från Archibald Stenton Whitfield. Ursprungligen var priset £400; fem år senare höjdes den till £600. För närvarande är priset £1 000.

Tidigare vinnare

Källa: Royal Historical Society

År Vinnare
1977 KD Brown, John Burns
1978 Marie Axton, The Queen's Two Bodies: Drama and the Elizabethan Succession
1979 Patricia Crawford , Denzil Holles, 1598–1680: En studie av hans politiska karriär
1980 DL Rydz, The Parliamentary Agents: A History
1981 Scott M. Harrison, 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 , Metodism och politik i det brittiska samhället, 1750–1850
1985 KDM Snell , Annals of the Laboring 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 JH Davis, Reforming London, London Government Problem, 1855–1900
1989 AG Rosser, medeltida Westminster, 1200–1540
1990 Duncan M. Tanner, Politisk förändring och arbetarpartiet, 1900–1918
1991 Tessa Watt, Billigt tryck och populär fromhet, 1550–1640
1992 Christine Carpenter , Locality and Polity: A Study of Warwickshire Landed Society, 1401 -1499
1993 Jeanette M. Neeson, Commoners: gemensam rättighet; inhägnad och social förändring i England, 1700-1820
1994 Vic Gatrell , The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English people, 1770–1868
1995 Kathleen Wilson, The Sense of the People: Politics, Culture and Imperialism in England, 1715–1785
1996 Paul D. Griffiths, Youth and Authority Formative Experience in England, 1560–1640
1997 Christopher Tolley, inhemsk biografi: arvet från evangelikalismen i fyra 1800-talsfamiljer
1998 Amanda Vickery , The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England
1999 John Walter, Understanding Popular Violence in the English Revolution: The Colchester Plunderers
2000 Adam Fox, Oral and Literate Culture in England, 1500–1700
2001 John Goodall , Guds hus på 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 , populärpolitik och den engelska reformationen
2003 Christine Peters, Patterns of Piety: Women, Gender and Religion in Late Medieval and Reformation England
2004 MJD Roberts, Making English Morals: Voluntary Association and Moral reform in England, 1787–1886
2005 Matt Houlbrook , Queer London
2006 Kate Fisher, preventivmedel, sex och äktenskap i Storbritannien, 1918–1960
2007 Stephen Baxter , 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 Stephen M. Lee, George Canning och liberal toryism, 1801–1827
Frank Trentmann , Free Trade Nation: Commerce, Consumption and Civil Society in Modern Britain
2009   Nicholas Draper, 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   Arnold Hunt, The Art of Hearing: English Preachers and their Audiences, 1590–1640 (Cambridge University Press, 2010) ISBN 978-0-521-89676-4
2011   Jacqueline Rose (historiker), Godly Kingship in Restoration England: The Politics of the Royal Supremacy, 1660–1688 (Cambridge University Press, 2011) ISBN 978-1-107-01142-7
2012   Ben Griffin, 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 Dateringen ändrades från "publiceringsår" till "utmärkelseår"
2015   John Sabapathy, Officers and Accountability in Medieval England 1170-1300 (Oxford University Press, 2014) ISBN 978-0-199-64590-9
2016   Aysha Pollnitz, Princely Education in Early Modern Britain (Cambridge University Press, 2015) ISBN 978-1-107-03952-0
2017   William M. Cavert, The Smoke of London: Energy and Environment in the Early Modern City (Cambridge University Press, 2016) ISBN 978-1-107-07300-5
  Alice Taylor, The Shape of the State in Medieval Scotland, 1124-1290 (Oxford University Press, 2016) ISBN 978-0-198-74920-2
2018   Brian N Hall, Communications and British Operations on the Western Front, 1914-1918 (Cambridge University Press, 2017) ISBN 978-1-107-17055-1
2019   Ryan Hanley, Beyond Slavery and Abolition: Black British Writing, c.1770-1830 (Cambridge University Press, 2018) ISBN 978-1-108-47565-5
2020   Niamh Gallagher, Irland och det stora kriget: A Social and Political History (Bloomsbury, 2019) ISBN 978-1-788-31462-6
2021 Jackson Armstrong, England's Northern Frontier: Conflict and Local Society in the Fifteenth-Century Scottish Marches
Lauren Working, The Making of an Imperial Polity. Civility och Amerika i Jacobean Metropolis

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