{"id":25365,"date":"2021-02-23T14:43:34","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T14:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/?page_id=25365"},"modified":"2025-07-03T20:22:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T19:22:17","slug":"rhs-alexander-prize-past-winners","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/prizes\/royal-historical-society-early-career-article-prize\/rhs-alexander-prize-past-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Historical Society article prize: past winners"},"content":{"rendered":"

1898<\/strong> F. Hermia Durharn, ‘The relations of the Crown to trade under James I’.<\/p>\n

1899<\/strong> W.F. Lord, BA, ‘The development of political parties during the reign of Queen Anne’.<\/p>\n

1900<\/strong> No award.<\/p>\n

1901<\/strong> Laura M. Roberts, ‘The Peace of Luneville’.<\/p>\n

1902<\/strong> V.B. Redstone, ‘The social condition of England during the Wars of the Roses’.<\/p>\n

1903<\/strong> Rose Graham, ‘The intellectual influence of English monasticism between the tenth and the twelfth centuries’.<\/p>\n

1904<\/strong> Enid W.G. Routh, ‘The balance of power in the seventeenth century’.<\/p>\n

1905<\/strong> WAP. Mason, MA ‘The beginnings of the Cistercian Order’.<\/p>\n

1906<\/strong> Rachel R. Reid, MA ‘The Rebellion of the Earls, 1569’.<\/p>\n

1907<\/strong> No award.<\/p>\n

1908<\/strong> Kate Hotblack ‘The Peace of Paris, 1763’.<\/p>\n

1909<\/strong> Nellie Nield, MA ‘The social and economic condition of the unfree classes in England in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries’. (Not published in Transactions<\/em>).<\/p>\n

1910<\/strong> No award.<\/p>\n

1911<\/strong> No award<\/p>\n

1912<\/strong> H.G. Richardson ‘The parish clergy of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries’.<\/p>\n

1913<\/strong> – 1916<\/strong> No award.<\/p>\n

1917<\/strong> Isobel D. Thornley, BA ‘The treason legislation of 1531 – 1534’.<\/p>\n

1918<\/strong> T.F.T. Plucknolt, BA ‘The place of the Council in the fifteenth century’.<\/p>\n

1919<\/strong> Edna F. White, MA ‘The jurisdiction of the Privy Council under the Tudors’. (Not published in Transactions<\/em>).<\/p>\n

1920<\/strong> J.E. Neale, MA ‘The Commons Journals of the Tudor Period’.<\/p>\n

1921<\/strong> No award.<\/p>\n

1922<\/strong> Eveline C.\u00a0<\/strong>A\u00a0Martin, ‘The English establishments on the Cold Coast in the second half of the eighteenth century’.<\/span><\/p>\n

1923<\/strong> E.W. Hensman, MA, ‘The Civil War of 1648 in the east midlands’.<\/p>\n

1924<\/strong> Grace Stretton, BA, ‘Some aspects of mediaeval travel’.<\/p>\n

1925<\/strong> F.A. Mace, .MA, ‘Devonshire ports in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries’.<\/p>\n

1926<\/strong> Marian J. Tooley, MA, ‘The authorship of “Defensor Pacis”‘.<\/p>\n

1927<\/strong> W.A. Pantin, BA, ‘Chapters of the English Black Monks, 1215-1540’.<\/p>\n

1928<\/strong> Gladys A. Thornton, BA, PhD, ‘A study in the history of Clare, Suffolk, with special reference to its development as a borough’.<\/p>\n

1929<\/strong> F.S. Rodkey, AM, PhD, ‘Lord Palmerston’s policy for the rejuvenation of Turkey, 1839- 1847’.<\/p>\n

1930<\/strong> A. Ettinger, DPhil, ‘The proposed Anglo-Franco-American Treaty of 1852 to guarantee Cubato Spain’.<\/p>\n

1931<\/strong> Kathleen A. Walpole, MA, ‘The humanitarian movement of the early nineteenth century to remedy abuses on emigrant vessels to America’.<\/p>\n

1932<\/strong> Dorothy M. Brodie, BA,, ‘Edmund Dudley, minister of Henry VII’.<\/p>\n

1933<\/strong> R.W. Southern, BA, ‘Ranulf Flambard and early Anglo-Norman administration’.<\/p>\n

1934<\/strong> S.B. Chrimes, MA, PhD, ‘Sir John Fortescue and his theory of dominion’.<\/p>\n

1935<\/strong> S.T. Bindoff, MA, ‘The unreformed diplomatic service, 1812-1860’.<\/p>\n

1936<\/strong> Rosamund J. Mitchell, MA, Blitt, ‘English students at Padua, 1460- 1475’.<\/p>\n

1937<\/strong> C.H. Philips, BA, ‘The East India Company “Interest, and the English Government of 1783-1784’.<\/p>\n

1938<\/strong> H.E.I. Phillips, BA, ‘The last years of the Court of Star Chamber, 1630- 1641’.<\/p>\n

1939<\/strong> Hilda P. Grieve, BA, ‘The deprived married clergy in Essex, 1553- 1561 ‘.<\/p>\n

1940<\/strong> R. Somerville, MA, ‘The Duchy of Lancaster Council and Court of Duchy Chamber’.<\/p>\n

1941<\/strong> R.A.L. Smith, MA, PhD, ‘The “Regimen Scaccarii” in English monasteries’.<\/p>\n

1942<\/strong> F.L. Carsten, DPhil, ‘Medieval democracy in the Brandenburg towns and its defeat in the fifteenth century’.<\/p>\n

1943<\/strong> No submissions made and no award.<\/p>\n

1944<\/strong> Rev. E.W. Kemp, BD, ‘Pope Alexander III and the canonization of saints’.<\/p>\n

1945<\/strong> Helen Suggett, BLitt, ‘The use of French in England in the later middle ages’.<\/p>\n

1946<\/strong> No award.<\/p>\n

1947<\/strong> June Milne, BA, ‘The diplomacy of John Robinson at the court of Charles II of Sweden, 1697-1709’.<\/p>\n

1948<\/strong> No award.<\/p>\n

1949<\/strong> Ethel Drus, MA, ‘The attitude of the Colonial Office to the annexation of Fiji’.<\/p>\n

1950<\/strong> Doreen J. Milne, MA, PhD, ‘The results of the Rye House Plot, and their influence upon the Revolution of 1688’<\/p>\n

1951<\/strong> K.G. Davles, BA, The origins of the commission system in the West India trade’.<\/p>\n

1952<\/strong> G.W.S. Barrow, BLitt, ‘Scottish rulers ant the religious orders, 1070-1153’.<\/p>\n

1953<\/strong> W.E. Minchinton, BSc(Econ), ‘Bristol – metropolis of the west in the eighteenth century’.<\/p>\n

1954<\/strong> Rev. L Boyle, OP, ‘The “Oculus Sacerdotis” and some other works of William of Pagula’.<\/p>\n

1955<\/strong> G.F.E. Rude, MA, PhD, ‘The Gordon riots: a study of the rioters and their victims’.<\/p>\n

1956<\/strong> No award.<\/p>\n

1957<\/strong> R F. Hunnisett, MA, DPhil, ‘The origins of the office of Coroner’.<\/p>\n

1958<\/strong> Thomas G. Barnes, AB, DPhil, ‘County politics and a puritan “cause celebre”: Somerset churchales, 1633’.<\/p>\n

1959<\/strong> Alan Harding, BLitt, ‘The origins and early history of the Keeper of the Peace’.<\/p>\n

1960<\/strong> Gwyn A. Wllliams, MA, PhD, ‘London and Edward I’.<\/p>\n

1961<\/strong> M.H. Keen, BA, ‘Treason trials under the law of arms’.<\/p>\n

1962<\/strong> G.W. Monger, MA, PhD, ‘The end of isolation: Britain, Germany and Japan, 1900-1092’.<\/p>\n

1963<\/strong> J.S. Moore, BA, ‘The Domesday teamland: a reconsideration’.<\/p>\n

1964<\/strong> M. Kelly, PhD, The submission of the clergy’.<\/p>\n

1965<\/strong> J.J.N. Palmer, BLitt, ‘Anglo-French negotiations, 1390-1396’.<\/p>\n

1966<\/strong> M.T. Clanchy, MA, PhD, ‘The Franchise of Return of Writs’.<\/p>\n

1967<\/strong> R. Lovatt, MA, DPhil, PhD, ‘The “Imitation of Christ” in late medieval England’.<\/p>\n

1968<\/strong> M.G.A Vale, MA, DPhil, ‘The last years of English Gascony, 1451-1453’.<\/p>\n

1969<\/strong> No award.<\/p>\n

1970 <\/strong>Mrs. Margaret Bowker, MA, BLitt, ‘The Commons Supplication against the Ordinaries in the light of some Archidiaconal Acta’.<\/p>\n

1971<\/strong> C. Thompson, MA, ‘The origins of the politics of the Parliamentary middle groups, 1625-1629’.<\/p>\n

1972<\/strong> I. d’Alton, BA, ‘Southern Irish Unionism: A study of Cork City and County Unionists, 1884-1914’.<\/p>\n

1973<\/strong> C.J. Kitching, BA, PhD, ‘The quest for concealed lands in the reign of Elizabeth I’.<\/p>\n

1974<\/strong> H. Tomlinson, BA, ‘Place and Profit: an Examination of the Ordnance Office, 1660-1714’.<\/p>\n

1975<\/strong> No award made for this year.<\/p>\n

1976<\/strong> B. Bradshaw, MA, BD, ‘Cromwellian reform’<\/p>\n

1977<\/strong> No award.<\/p>\n

1978<\/strong> C.J. Ford, BA, ‘Piracy or Policy: The Crisis in the Channel, 1400-1403’.<\/p>\n

1979<\/strong> P. Dewey, BA, PhD, ‘Food Production and Policy in the United Kingdom, 1914-1918’.<\/p>\n

1980<\/strong> Ann L. Hughes, BA, PhD, ‘Militancy and Localism: Warwickshire Politics and Westminster Politics, 1643- 1647’.<\/p>\n

1981<\/strong> C.J. Tyerman, MA, ‘Marino Sanudo Torsello and the Lost Crusade. Lobbying in the Fourteenth Century’.<\/p>\n

1982<\/strong> E. Powell, BA, DPhil, ‘Arbitration and the Law in England in the Late Middle Ages’.<\/p>\n

1983<\/strong> A.G. Rosser, MA, ‘The essence Of medieval urban communities: the vill of Westminster,1200- lS40’.<\/p>\n

1984<\/strong> N.L. Ramsay, MA, LLB, ‘Retained legal Counsel, c.1275-1475’.<\/p>\n

1985<\/strong> George S. Garnett, MA, ‘Coronation and Propaganda: Some Implications of the Norman Claim to the Throne Of England in 1066’.<\/p>\n

1986<\/strong> C.J. Given-Wilson, ‘The King and the Gentry in Fourteenth Century England’.<\/p>\n

1987<\/strong> No award.<\/p>\n

1988<\/strong> R.A.W. Rex, .NIA, ‘The English Campaign against Luther in the 1520s’.<\/p>\n

1989<\/strong> J.S.A. Adamson, BA, PhD, ‘The Baronial Context of the English Civil War’.<\/p>\n

1990<\/strong> Shelley C. Lockwood, BA, ‘Marsilius of Padua and the Case for the Royal Ecclesiastical Supremacy’.<\/p>\n

1991<\/strong> David L. Smith, MA, PhD, ‘Catholic, Anglican or Puritan? Edward Sacksville, Fourth Earl of Dorset and the Ambiguities of Religion in Early Stuart England.’<\/p>\n

1992<\/strong> Giles Worsley, MA, PhD, ‘The Origins of the Gothic Revival: A Reappraisal’.<\/p>\n

1993<\/strong> Clifford J. Rogers, BA, MA, PhD, ‘Edward III and the Dialects of Strategy’.<\/p>\n

1994<\/strong> Joseph Charles Heim, BA, MA, PhD, ‘Liberalism and the Establishment of Collective Security in British Foreign Policy’.<\/p>\n

1995<\/strong> Rachel Gibbons, BA, ‘Isabeau of Bavaria, Queen of France: the creation of an historical villainess’.<\/p>\n

1996<\/strong> No award.<\/p>\n

1997<\/strong> Steve Hindle, MA, MA, PhD, ‘The Problem of Pauper Marriage in Seventeenth Century England’.<\/p>\n

1998<\/strong> Neil W. Hitchin, BA, MA, \u2018The Politics of English Bible Translation in Georgian Britain\u2019.<\/p>\n

1999<\/strong> Magnus Ryan, BA, MA, PhD, \u2018Bartolus of Sassoferrato and Free Cities\u2019.<\/p>\n

2000<\/strong> Helen Berry, BA, PhD, \u2018Rethinking Politeness in Eighteenth-Century England: Moll King\u2019s Coffee House and the Significance of Flash Talk\u2019.<\/p>\n

2001<\/strong> No award.<\/p>\n

2002<\/strong> Quintin Colville, BA, MA, ‘Jack Tar and the gentleman officer: the role of uniform in shaping class- and gender- related identities of British naval personnel, 1930-1939’.<\/p>\n

2003<\/strong> No award.<\/p>\n

2004<\/strong> Ian Mortimer, BA, MA, RMSA, FRHistS, ‘The Triumph of the Doctors: Medical Assistance to the Dying c.1570-1720’<\/p>\n

2005<\/strong> No award.<\/p>\n

2006<\/strong> Sethina Watson, \u2018The Origins of the English Hospital\u2019<\/p>\n

From this point the prize is awarded for the year of publication of the article, and presented in the year following publication.<\/em><\/p>\n

2007<\/strong> Alice Rio, \u2018Freedom and Unfreedom in Early medieval Francia: the Evidence of the LegalFormulae\u2019 in Past and Present<\/em> 193 (2006)<\/p>\n

2008<\/strong> Mary Partridge, \u2018Thomas Hoby\u2019s English Translation of Castiglione\u2019s Book of the Courtier\u2019 in The Historical Journal<\/em>, 50 (2007), pp. 769-786<\/p>\n

2009<\/strong> No award.<\/p>\n

2010<\/strong> George Molyneaux, \u2018The Old English Bede: English Ideology or Christian Instruction?\u2019 in English Historical Review<\/em>, 124 (2009), pp. 1289\u20131323<\/p>\n

2011<\/strong> Richard Huzzey, \u2018Free trade, free labour, and slave sugar in Victorian Britain\u2019 in Historical Journal<\/em>, 53, 2 (2010)<\/p>\n

2012<\/strong> Levi Roach, \u2018Public Rites and Public Wrongs: Ritual Aspects of Diplomas in Tenth- and Eleventh-Century England\u2019, in Early Medieval Europe<\/em>, vol. 19, (2011).<\/p>\n

2013<\/strong> Jasper Heinzen, \u2018Transnational Affinities and Invented Traditions: The Napoleonic Wars in British and Hanoverian Memory, 1815-1915\u2019 in English Historical Review<\/em>, vol. 27, no. 529 (2012)<\/p>\n

2013<\/strong> David Veevers, \u2018\u201dThe Company as their Lords and the Deputy as a Great Rajah\u201d: Imperial Expansion and the English East India Company on the West Coast of Sumatra, 1685-1740\u2019 in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History<\/em>, 41, 5 (2013), pp. 687-709<\/p>\n

From this point the prize is awarded for and presented in the year following publication.<\/em><\/p>\n

2015<\/strong> Ryan Hanley, \u2018Calvinism, Proslavery and James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw\u2019, Slavery & Abolition<\/em> 35:1 (2015) (published online Sep 2014).<\/p>\n

2016<\/strong> Mary Cox, \u2018Hunger Games: Or how the Allied Blockade in World War I Deprived German Children of Nutrition, and Allied Food Aid Subsequently Saved them\u2019, Economic History Review<\/em>, 68: 2, (2015), 600-31.<\/p>\n

2017<\/strong> Stephanie Mawson, \u2018Convicts or Conquistadores?: Spanish Soldiers in the Seventeenth Century Pacific\u2019, Past and Present<\/em>, 232:1 (2016), 87-125.<\/p>\n

2018<\/strong> Marcus Colla, \u2018Prussian Palimpsests: Architecture and Urban Spaces in East Germany, 1945-1961,\u2019 Central European History<\/em>, 50 (2017), 184-217.<\/p>\n

2019<\/strong> Jake Richards, \u2018Anti-Slave-Trade Law, \u201cLiberated Africans\u201d and the State in the South Atlantic World, c. 1839-1852\u2019, Past and Present<\/em>, 241 (2018), 170-219.<\/p>\n

2020<\/strong> Meira Gold,\u00a0\u2018Ancient Egypt and the Geological Antiquity of Man, 1847-1863\u2019,\u00a0<\/span>History of Science<\/em>,<\/span> 57:2 (2019), 194-230.<\/span><\/p>\n

2021 <\/strong>Matthew Birchall, \u2018History, Sovereignty, Capital: Company Colonisation in South Australia and New Zealand\u2018, Journal of Global History<\/em>, 16 (2020), 141-57.<\/p>\n

2022<\/strong> Tamara Fernando, \u2018\u201cSeeing Like the Sea\u201d: A Multispecies History of the Ceylon Pearl Fishery, 1800-1925\u2019, Past and Present<\/em> (February 2021), 127-60<\/p>\n

and<\/p>\n

Anna McKay, \u2018\u201dAllowed to Die?\u201d Prison Hulks, Convict Corpses and the Enquiry of 1847\u2019, Cultural and Social History<\/em> (May 2021), 163-81.<\/p>\n

2023<\/strong> Jake Dyble, ‘General Average, Human Jettison, and the Status of Slaves in Early Modern Europe’, Historical Journal<\/em>, 65 (2022), 1197-1220.<\/p>\n

and<\/p>\n

Roseanna Webster, ‘Women and the Fight for Urban Change in Late Francoist Spain’, Past & Present<\/em> (October 2022)<\/p>\n

2024<\/strong> Ellen Smith, \u2018Widows, Violence and Death: The Construction of Imperial Identity and Memory\u00a0across British India, 1857\u20131926\u2019,\u00a0Gender & History<\/i>\u00a0(2023).<\/p>\n

and<\/p>\n

\u2018Changing Queenships in Tenth-Century England: Rhetoric and (Self-)Representation in the Case of Eadgifu of Kent at Cooling\u2019,\u00a0Early Medieval Europe<\/i>\u00a0(2023).<\/p>\n

2025<\/strong> William Ross Jones, \u2018The Self in the Shadow of the Guillotine: Revolution, Terror and Trauma in a Parisian Diary\u2018, History Workshop Journa<\/em>l\u00a0<\/em>(2024)<\/p>\n

and<\/p>\n

Michaela Kalcher, \u2018The Self in the Shadow of the Guillotine: Revolution, Terror and Trauma in a Parisian Diary\u2018, History Workshop Journal <\/em>(2024)<\/p>\n

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1898 F. Hermia Durharn, ‘The relations of the Crown to trade under James I’. 1899 W.F. Lord, BA, ‘The development of political parties during the reign of Queen Anne’. 1900 No award. 1901 Laura M. Roberts, ‘The Peace of Luneville’. 1902 V.B. Redstone, ‘The social condition of England during the Wars of the Roses’. 1903 …Continue reading »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16346,"featured_media":0,"parent":43300,"menu_order":240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-25365","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16346"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25365"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47552,"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25365\/revisions\/47552"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}