Prizes

 

The Royal Historical Society awards prizes each year to recognise excellent historical scholarship and achievement.

Prizes 2024: Winners

Winners of the 2024 RHS book and article prizes are as follows:

  • Somak Biswas for his book Passages through India. Indian Gurus, Western Disciples and the Politics of Indophilia, 1890–1940 (2023)
  • Sara Caputo for her book Foreign Jack Tars: The British Navy and Transnational Seafarers during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (2023)
  • Ellen Smith for her article ‘Widows, Violence and Death: The Construction of Imperial Identity and Memory across British India, 1857–1926’, Gender & History (2023)
  • Jonathan Tickle for his article ‘Changing Queenships in Tenth-Century England: Rhetoric and (Self-)Representation in the Case of Eadgifu of Kent at Cooling’, Early Medieval Europe (2023)

General enquiries about Society’s Prizes should be sent to: administration@royalhistsoc.org

 

Gladstone Book Prize

Gladstone Book PrizeThe Gladstone Book Prize offers an annual award of £1000 for a first monograph on a subject not primarily on British or Irish history.

Whitfield Book Prize

Whitfield Book PrizeThe Whitfield Book Prize offers an annual award of £1000 for a first monograph on British or Irish history.

Alexander Prize

Alexander PrizeThe Alexander Prize is for an outstanding first journal article by a doctoral candidate or early career historian.