The winner of this year’s competition is Caroline Bressey, Empire, Race and the Politics of “Anti-Caste’ (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013). Congratulations to Caroline for a book that the judges though was an ‘excellent study of a remarkable episode in anti-racist…
Category: Prizes
Details of WHN prizes and entries
Winner Book Prize 2013
The winner of this year’s competition is Angela Davis’s Modern Motherhood: Women and Family in England, 1945-2000 (Manchester University Press, 2012). Congratulations to Angela for a book that the judges commend as ‘a fascinating survey of women’s experience of motherhood’, ’eminently readable’, ‘a solid and…
Winner of Book Prize 2012
The winning entry of the 2012 competition was Katie Barclay’sLove, Intimacy and Power: Marriage and Patriarchy in Scotland, 1650-1850 (Manchester University Press, 2011). Congratulations to Katie for a book that the judges commend as ‘an important and original study’, ‘intellectually ambitious’, ‘impressive in its…
Winner of Book Prize 2011
The WHN Book Prize was awarded at the Annual Conference at The Women’s Library in London in September 2011. Many congratulations to Victoria Harris for Selling Sex in the Reich: Prostitutes in German Society, 1914-1945 (OUP, 2010)
Book Prize Winner 2010
The 2010 WHN Book Prize was awarded to Claire G. Jones for Femininity, Mathematics and Science, c 1880-1914, which was published by Palgrave in November 2009. Claire was presented wiith her prize by Professor Ann Heilmann on September 10 2010 at the…
Book Prize Winner 2009
The annual WHN book prize was awarded at the annual conference held at St Hilda’s College Oxford in September 2009. The winner was Sarah Pearsall of Oxford Brookes University for her engaging history of transatlantic families and women’s lives: Sarah M.S. Pearsall, Atlantic…
Book Prize Winner 2008
This year, 10 books were submitted for the £500 Women’s History Network (UK) Book Prize and the field was particularly strong. The winner, announced at the annual WHN conference in Glasgow, is Lucy Delap for her book The Feminist Avant-Garde:…