Gladstone Book Prize Explained

The Gladstone Book Prize is an annual prize awarded by the Royal Historical Society to debut authors for a history book published in Britain on any topic which is not primarily British history.^{[1] [2]} The prize is named in honour of William Ewart Gladstone and was made possible by a grant by the Gladstone Memorial Trust. It was first awarded in 1998, the centenary of Gladstone's death.

List of winners

Source:^[3]

• 1997 – Stuart Clark, Thinking With Demons: The Idea of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe
• 1998 – Patrick Major, The Death of the KPD: Communism and Anti-Communism in West Germany, 1945-1956
• 1999 – Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War,
• 2000 – Matthew Innes, State and Society in the Middle Ages: The Middle Rhine Valley, 400-1000
• 2001 – Nora Berend, At the Gate of Christendom: Jews, Muslims and 'Pagans' in Medieval Hungary, c.1000-c.1300
• 2002
  • David Hopkin, Soldier and Peasant in French Popular Culture, 1766-1870
  • Guy Rowlands, The Dynastic State and the Army Under Louis XIV
• 2003
  • Norbert Peabody, Hindu Kingship and Polity in Precolonial India
  • Michael Rowe, From Reich to State: the Rhineland in the Revolutionary Age, 1780-1830
• 2004 – Nikolaus Wachsmann, Hitler’s Prisons: Legal Terror in Nazi Germany
• 2005 – Robert Foley, German Strategy and the Path to Verdun: Erich von Falkenhayn and the Development of Attrition, 1870-1850
• 2006 – James E. Shaw, The Justice of Venice: Authorities and Liberties in the Urban Economy, 1550-1700 ^[4]
• 2007 – Yasmin Khan, The Great Partition: the Making of India and Pakistan
• 2008 – Dr 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) ^[5]
• 2015
  • Andrew Arsan, Interlopers of Empire: The Lebanese Diaspora in Colonial French West Africa (Hurst, 2014)
  • 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, A History of the Roman Equestrian Order (Cambridge University Press, 2019)
• 2021 – Tom Stammers, The Purchase of the Past: Collecting Culture in Post-Revolutionary Paris, c.1790-1890 (Cambridge University Press, 2020).
• 2023 - Jennifer Keating, On Arid Ground: Political Ecologies of Empire in Russian Central Asia (OUP, 2022)

See also

• List of history awards
• Prizes named after people

Notes and References

1. Web site: Royal Historical Society (RHS) . 5 September 2015 . 29 October 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151029232055/http://royalhistsoc.org/prizes/gladstone-history-book-prize/ . live .
2. Web site: Gladstone Prize RHS. 2021-02-15. royalhistsoc.org. 14 July 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230714201652/https://royalhistsoc.org/prizes/gladstone-history-book-prize/. live.
3. Web site: Gladstone Prize. RHS. en-GB. 2019-04-30. 14 July 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230714201652/https://royalhistsoc.org/prizes/gladstone-history-book-prize/. live.
4. Web site: Archived copy . 2008-01-05 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110716110603/http://www.royalhistoricalsociety.org/gladstonepastwinners.doc . 2011-07-16 .
5. Web site: Archived copy . 2015-05-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141202001025/http://royalhistsoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/gladstonepastwinners.pdf . 2014-12-02 . dead .