Clare Evans Prize
An annual £500 prize for a new essay in the field of “Gender and History”.
This national prize worth £500 has been awarded annually in memory of Dr Clare Evans, for an original essay in the field of women’s history or gender and history. Essays are considered by a panel of judges set up by the Women’s History Network and the Trustees of the Clare Evans Memorial Fund. Subject to the normal refereeing criteria, the winning essay is published in Women’s History Review.
The operation of this prize essay is at present under discussion. Please contact Ann Hughes before 31st May 2015 for further information if you are considering submitting an entry. Email Ann Hughes hia21@keele.ac.uk.
Clare Evans Prize Winner 2012
The 2012 winner of the Clare Evans prize is Rachel Ritchie from Brunel University with her essay ‘Beauty isn’t all a matter of looking glamouress’: attitudes to glamour in the Women’s Institute and Women’s Cooperative Guild magazines during the 1950s. Below: left Rachel Ritchie, with Merlin Evans.
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Clare Evans Prize Winner 2011
The 2011 Clare Evans Prize winner is Ruth Davidson for her essay ‘Dreams of Utopia’: Female Agency within civic Society and its impact on the Scope and Ideology of the Infant Welfare Movemnet in Croyden, 1914-39.
Ruth was presented with her prize at the WHN Conference at The Women’s Library in London in September. (Pictured below: Ruth left, Katherine Holden centre, Clare’s daughter Merlin right.)
Clare Evans Prize Winner 2010
The 2010 Clare Evans Prize was awarded to Linda Jauch at the WHN annual conference at the University of Warwick. Linda, a postgraduate student at Christs College Cambridge, is completing a PhD on women, power and political discourse in 15th century Italy. Her winning essay was titled ‘Even though I am a woman, I want to lose like a man: Caterina Sforza and her battle for Forli. Renaissance political history reconsidered’.
Linda Jauch receiveing her prize from Clare’s daughter Merlin.
Two further essays were highly commended:
Elaine Farrell [2009 PhD at Queens University, Belfast, on infanticide in Ireland]: for ‘The fellow said it was not harm and only tricks”: The father in suspected cases of infanticide and concealment of birth in Ireland, 1850 -1900.
Clare Russell [recent PhD in American Studies at Nottingham University] for ‘Uncommon activist: Rethinking Bernice Robinson, citizenship schools and women in the civil rights movement’’
Previous winners:
The Clare Evans Prize 2009 was awarded to Jennifer Evans of Exeter University at the annual conference of the WHN at Oxford in September. Jennifer’s winning essay was titled ‘Its caused of the womans part or of the mans part’: the role of gender in the diagnosis and treatment of sexual dysfunction in early modern England’.
Leonie Hannan (Royal Holloway, University of London) was highly commended for ‘Reconsidering the Intellectual: Women, letters and the life of the mind’. There were seven very good entries on topics ranging from the medieval period to the twentieth century and including the history of medicine, of photography and of crime.
The 2008 Clare Evans prize was awarded to Laura Schwartz, a research student at the University of East London, for her essay ‘Secularism and Sexual Freedom? Freethinking Feminist Attitudes to Marriage, Birth Control and Sexual Morality in England c.1850-1877’. Schwarz’s essay is based on the work she is undertaking for her PhD on ‘Infidel Feminism: Secularism, religion and Women’s Rights in England. c. 1830-1889’.
Laura Schwarz (right) receiving her prize
from Gerry Holloway at the WHN 2008 Annual Conference
in Glasgow.