Winners of the RHS Whitfield Book Prize, 1977-2024
1977
K.D. Brown, John Burns (Royal Historical Society Studies in History, 1977)
1978
Marie Axton, The Queen’s Two Bodies: Drama and the Elizabethan Succession (Royal Historical Society Studies in History, 1978)
1979
Patricia Crawford, Denzil Holles, 1598-1680: A study of his Political Career (Royal Historical Society Studies in History, 1979)
1980
D. L. Rydz, The Parliamentary Agents: A History (Royal Historical Society Studies in History, 1979)
1981
Scott M. Harrison, The Pilgrimage of Grace in the Lake Counties, 1536-7 (Royal Historical Society Studies in History, 1981)
1982
Norman L. Jones, Faith by Statute: Parliament and the Settlement of Religion, 1559 (Royal Historical Society Studies in History, 1982)
1983
Peter Clark, The English Alehouse: A social history, 1200-1830 (Longman, 1983)
1984
David Hempton, Methodism and Politics in British Society, 1750-1850 (Hutchinson, 1984)
1985
K.D.M. Snell, Annals of the Labouring Poor (Cambridge University Press, 1985)
1986
Diarmaid MacCulloch, Suffolk and the Tudors: Politics and Religion in an English County,1500- 1600 (Clarendon Press, 1986)
1987
Kevin M. Sharpe, Criticism and Compliment: The Politics of Literature in the England of Charles I (Cambridge University Press, 1987)
1988
J.H. Davis, Reforming London, the London Government Problem, 1855-1900 (Clarendon Press, 1988)
1989
A.G. Rosser, Medieval Westminster, 1200-1540 (Clarendon Press, 1989)
1990
Duncan M. Tanner, Political Change and the Labour Party, 1900-1918 (Cambridge University Press, 1990)
1991
Tessa Watt, Cheap Print and Popular Piety, 1550-1640 (Cambridge University Press, 1991)
1992
Christine Carpenter, Locality and Polity: A Study of Warwickshire Landed Society, 1401 -1499 (Cambridge University Press, 1992)
1993
Jeanette M. Neeson, Commoners: Common Right, Enclosure and Social Change in England,1700- 1820 (Cambridge University Press, 1993)
1994
V.A.C. Gatrell, The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People, 1770-1868 (Oxford University Press, 1994)
1995
Kathleen Wilson, The Sense of the People: Politics, Culture and Imperialism in England, 1715-1785 (Cambridge University Press, 1995)
1996
Paul D. Griffiths, Youth and Authority: Formative Experience in England, 1560-1640 (Clarendon Press, 1996)
1997
Christopher Tolley, Domestic Biography: the Legacy of Evangelicalism in Four Nineteenth-Century Families (Clarendon Press, 1997)
1998
Amanda Vickery, The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England (Yale University Press, 1998)
1999
John Walter, Understanding Popular Violence in the English Revolution: The Colchester Plunderers (Past and Present Publications, 1999)
2000
Adam Fox, Oral and Literate Culture in England, 1500-1700 (Clarendon Press, 2000)
2001
John Goodall, God’s House at Ewelme: Life, Devotion and Architecture in a Fifteenth Century Almshouse (Routledge, 2001)
and
Frank Salmon, Building on Ruins: The Rediscovery of Rome and English Architecture (Ashgate, 2001)
2002
Ethan H. Shagan, Popular Politics and the English Reformation (Cambridge University Press, 2002)
2003
Christine Peters, Patterns of Piety: Women, Gender and Religion in Late Medieval and Reformation England (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
2004
M.J.D. Roberts, Making English Morals: Voluntary Association and Moral reform in England,1787-1886 (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
2005
Matt Houlbrooke, Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-1957 (University of Chicago Press, 2005)
2006
Kate Fisher, Birth Control, Sex and Marriage in Britain, 1918-1960 (Oxford University Press, 2006)
2007
Stephen Baxter, The Earls of Mercia: Lordship and Power in Late Anglo-Saxon England (Oxford University Press, 2007)
and
Duncan Bell, The Idea of Greater Britain: Empire and the Future of World Order, 1860-1900 (Princeton University Press, 2007)
2008
Stephen M. Lee, George Canning and Liberal Toryism, 1801-1827 (RHS/Boydell & Brewer:2008)
and
Frank Trentmann, Free Trade Nation: Commerce, Consumption and Civil Society in Modern Britain (Oxford University Press: 2008)
2009
Nicholas Draper, The Price of Emancipation: Slave-ownership, Compensation and British Society at the end of Slavery (Cambridge University Press: 2009)
2010
Arnold Hunt, The Art of Hearing: English Preachers and their Audiences, 1590-1640 (Cambridge University Press: 2010)
2011
Jaqueline Rose, Godly Kingship in Restoration England: The Politics of the Royal Supremacy,1660-1688, (Cambridge University Press: 2011)
2012
Ben Griffin, The Politics of Gender in Victorian Britain. Masculinity, Political Culture and the Struggle for Women’s Rights, (Cambridge University Press: 2012)
2013
Scott Sowerby, Making Toleration: The Repealers and The Glorious Revolution (Harvard University Press: 2013)
From this point the prize is awarded for and presented in the year following publication.
2015
John Sabapathy, Officers and Accountability in Medieval England 1170-1300 (Oxford University Press, 2014)
2016
Aysha Pollnitz, Princely Education in Early Modern Britain (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
2017
William M. Cavert, The Smoke of London: Energy and Environment in the Early Modern City (Cambridge University Press, 2016)
and
Alice Taylor, The Shape of the State in Medieval Scotland, 1124-1290 (Oxford University Press, 2016)
2018
Brian N Hall, Communications and British Operations on the Western Front, 1914-1918 (Cambridge University Press, 2017)
2019
Ryan Hanley, Beyond Slavery and Abolition: Black British Writing, c.1770-1830 (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
2020
Niamh Gallagher, Ireland and the Great War: A Social and Political History (Bloomsbury, 2019)
2021
Jackson Armstrong, England’s Northern Frontier: Conflict and Local Society in the Fifteenth-Century Scottish Marches (Cambridge University Press, 2020)
and
Lauren Working, The Making of an Imperial Polity: Civility and America in the Jacobean Metropolis (Cambridge University Press, 2020)
2022
Kristin D. Hussey for Imperial Bodies in London. Empire, Mobility, and the Making of British Medicine, 1880-1914 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
2023
Síobhra Aiken for Spiritual Wounds. Trauma, Testimony and the Irish Civil War (Irish Academic Press, 2022)
2024
Sara Caputo for Foreign Jack Tars: The British Navy and Transnational Seafarers during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (Cambridge University Press, 2024)
Winner of the RHS Gladstone Book Prize, 1997-2024
1997
Stuart Clark, Thinking with Demons: the idea of witchcraft in early modern Europe (Oxford University Press, 1999)
1998
Patrick Major, The Death of the KPD: Communism and Anti-Communism in West Germany, 1945-1956 (Oxford University Press, 1998)
1999
Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War (Granta Books, 1999)
2000
Matthew Innes, State and Society in the Middle Ages: The Middle Rhine Valley, 400-1000 (Cambridge University Press, 2000)
2001
Nora Berend, At the Gate of Christendom. Jews, Muslims and ‘Pagans’ in Medieval Hungary, c.1000-c.1300 (Cambridge University Press, 2001)
2002
David Hopkin, Soldier and Peasant in French Popular Culture, 1766-1870 (Royal Historical Society / The Boydell Press, 2002)
and
Guy Rowlands, The Dynastic State and the Army Under Louis XIV (Cambridge University Press, 2002)
2003
Norbert Peabody, Hindu Kingship and Polity in Precolonial India (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
and
Michael Rowe, From Reich to State: the Rhineland in the Revolutionary Age, 1780-1830 (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
2004
Nikolaus Wachsmann, Hitler’s Prisons: Legal Terror in Nazi Germany (Yale University Press, 2004)
2005
Robert Foley, German Strategy and the Path to Verdun: Erich von Falkenhayn and the Development of Attrition, 1870-1850 (Cambridge University Press, 2005)
2006
James E. Shaw, The Justice of Venice. Authorities and Liberties in the Urban Economy, 1550- 1700 (Oxford University Press, 2006)
2007
Yasmin Khan, The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan (Yale University Press, 2007)
2008
Caroline Dodds Pennock, Bonds of Blood: Gender, Lifecycle and Sacrifice in Aztec Culture (Palgrave MacMillan, 2008)
2009
Alice Rio, Legal Practice and the Written Word in the Early Middle Ages. Frankish Formulae, c.500-1000 (Cambridge University Press, 2009)
2010
Natalie A. Zacek, Settler Society in the English Leeward Islands, c. 1670-1776 (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
2011
Wendy Ugolini, Experiencing War as the ‘Enemy Other’: Italian Scottish Experience in World War II, (Manchester University Press, 2011)
2012
Joel Isaac, Working Knowledge: Making the Human Sciences from Parsons to Kuhn, (Harvard University Press, 2012)
2013
Sean A Eddie, Freedom’s Price: Serfdom, Subjection, & Reform in Prussia, 1648-1848 (Oxford University Press, 2013)
From this point the prize is awarded for and presented in the year following publication.
2015
Andrew Arsan, Interlopers of Empire: The Lebanese Diaspora in Colonial French West Africa (Hurst, 2014)
and
Lucie Ryzova, The Age of the Efendiyya: Passages to Modernity in National-Colonial Egypt (Oxford University Press, 2014)
2016
Emma Hunter, Political Thought and the Public Sphere in Tanzania (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
2017
Claire Eldridge, From Empire to Exile: History and Memory within the pied-noir and harki communities, 1962-2012 (Manchester University Press, 2016)
2018
Matthew S Champion, The Fullness of Time. Temporalities of the Fifteenth-Century Low Countries (University of Chicago Press, 2017)
2019
Duncan Hardy, Associative Political Culture in the Holy Roman Empire: Upper Germany, 1346-1521 (Oxford University Press, 2018)
2020
Caillan Davenport for A History of the Roman Equestrian Order (Cambridge University Press, 2019)
2021
Tom Stammers for The Purchase of the Past: Collecting Culture in Post-Revolutionary Paris, c.1790-1890 (Cambridge University Press, 2020)
2022
Emily Bridger for Young Women Against Apartheid. Gender, Youth and South Africa’s Liberation Struggle (Boydell & Brewer, 2021)
2023
Jennifer Keating for On Arid Ground: Political Ecologies of Empire in Russian Central Asia (Oxford University Press, 2022)
2024
Somak Biswas for Passages through India. Indian Gurus, Western Disciples and the Politics of Indophilia, 1890–1940 (Cambridge University Press, 2023)