{"id":47523,"date":"2025-07-03T14:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T13:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/?p=47523"},"modified":"2025-07-04T05:55:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T04:55:47","slug":"winners-of-the-societys-2025-early-career-article-and-first-book-prizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/winners-of-the-societys-2025-early-career-article-and-first-book-prizes\/","title":{"rendered":"Winners of the Society&#8217;s 2025 Early Career Article and First Book Prizes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/\">Royal Historical Society<\/a> is very pleased to announce the winners of its 2025 prizes, for <a href=\"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/prizes\/royal-historical-society-early-career-article-prize\/\">early career articles<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/prizes\/royal-historical-society-first-book-prize\/\">first books<\/a> written by early career historians. This year&#8217;s winners were announced at the Society&#8217;s annual <a href=\"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/peter-gatrell-gives-the-societys-2025-prothero-lecture\/\">Prothero Lecture<\/a> which took place on 2 July and was attended by all four of this year&#8217;s recipients.<\/p>\n<p>The two winners for each category are as follows:<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #003366;\">Early Career Article Prize<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>William Jones<\/strong>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/25785648.2024.2363682\"><strong>\u201cYou are going to be my\u00a0<em>Bettman<\/em>\u201d: Exploitative Sexual Relationships and the Lives of the\u00a0<em>Pipels<\/em>\u00a0in Nazi Concentration Camps\u2019<\/strong><\/a>, published in <strong><em>The Journal of Holocaust Research<\/em><\/strong> (2024)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Michaela Kalcher<\/strong>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/hwj\/article\/doi\/10.1093\/hwj\/dbae026\/7916608\"><strong>\u2018The Self in the Shadow of the Guillotine: Revolution, Terror and Trauma in a Parisian Diary<\/strong><\/a>\u2018, published in<em>\u00a0<\/em><strong><em>History Workshop Journal <\/em><\/strong>(2024)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Society&#8217;s Early Career Article Prize is awarded for an article published in 2024 by an early career historian who is either studying for a doctorate or is within three years of completing a PhD at a university in the UK or Republic of Ireland. Both winners receive a prize of \u00a3250.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #003366;\">First Book Prize<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/books\/royal-justice-and-the-making-of-the-tudor-commonwealth-14851547\/121FE04192C3A1CEDD909F6772CA3218\"><em><strong>Royal Justice and the Making of the Tudor Commonwealth, 1485-1547<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, by <strong>Laura Flannigan<\/strong> (Cambridge University Press, 2024)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.press.jhu.edu\/books\/title\/12873\/segregated-species?srsltid=AfmBOoqB8L2jnAMDgOO1E9HhnSMMzfvCy9E6oJRh-UNS6UQwZ-Ee4Hoc\"><strong><em>Segregated Species: Pests, Knowledge, and Boundaries in South Africa, 1910\u20131948<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, by <strong>Jules Skotnes-Brown<\/strong> (Johns Hopkins University Press 2024)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Society&#8217;s First Book Prize is awarded for a first history monograph, published in 2024, written by a PhD graduate of a university in the UK or Republic of Ireland. Both winners receive a prize of \u00a31,000.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>This year&#8217;s prizes invited eligible authors to submit an article or monograph for consideration. More than 65 titles were submitted for each category.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In their citation for Michaela Kalcher\u2019s article,<strong> \u2018The Self in the Shadow of the Guillotine&#8217;<\/strong>, this year&#8217;s\u00a0judges praised:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A beautifully written, psychologically rich analysis of trauma, identity, and diary writing. Combining microhistory with theoretical depth, this compelling article will likely become a key part of the historiography of the French Revolution on account of its provocations and highly intelligent construction.<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Commenting on William Jones\u2019s article, <strong>&#8216;\u201cYou are going to be my\u00a0<em>Bettman<\/em>\u201d&#8217;<\/strong>, the judges commended:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #003366;\">A groundbreaking and sensitive study of sexual violence during the Holocaust. This is an article that balances theoretical nuance with survivor testimony, offering a new conceptual framework that is both meaningful and analytically sharp. In the extensive historiography of the Holocaust, William Jones has something new and important to say.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In their citation for Laura Flannigan\u2019s monograph, <em><strong>Royal Justice and the Making of the Tudor Commonwealth<\/strong>, <\/em>the judges congratulated:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #003366;\">An impressive, conceptually adept and ambitiously argued book. This is a study grounded in extraordinarily deep archival research on a previously neglected judicial court that was established in the late fifteenth century.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #003366;\">The rich quantitative data yields intriguing vignettes that give wonderful colour to institutional history. <em>Royal Justice and the Making of the Tudor Commonwealth<\/em>\u00a0is clearly written and structured, as well as being cleverly and convincingly argued.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In their citation for Jules Skotnes-Brown\u2019s book, <em><strong>Segregated Species<\/strong>, <\/em>the panel praised:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A fascinating, original, highly engaging, conceptually smart and extremely well-written interdisciplinary study that combines the history of science with its much wider social, political and racial context.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This rich book is impressively researched, nimble in its analysis, successfully experimental at times in its approach and superbly written.<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Full citations for our two early career article prizes are <a href=\"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/prizes\/royal-historical-society-early-career-article-prize\/\">available here<\/a>; those for the winners of this year&#8217;s book prize are <a href=\"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/prizes\/royal-historical-society-first-book-prize\/\">available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Our congratulations to the four winners in 2025, and the twelve additional authors whose work was shortlisted for this year&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.royalhistsoc.org\/2025\/05\/28\/royal-historical-society-early-career-article-prize-2025-shortlisted-titles\/\">early career article<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.royalhistsoc.org\/2025\/05\/28\/royal-historical-society-first-book-prize-2025-shortlisted-titles\/\">first book prizes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>IMAGE: left to right: William Ross Jones, Jules Skotnes-Brown, Laura Flannigan, Lucy Noakes (President of the Royal Historical Society), and Michaela Kalcher, 2 July 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Royal Historical Society is very pleased to announce the winners of its 2025 prizes, for early career articles and first books written by early career historians. This year&#8217;s winners were announced at the Society&#8217;s annual Prothero Lecture which took place on 2 July and was attended by all four of this year&#8217;s recipients. The <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/winners-of-the-societys-2025-early-career-article-and-first-book-prizes\/\">&#8230;Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20210,"featured_media":47524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","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":""},"categories":[1,113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-home"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47523"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47560,"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47523\/revisions\/47560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}