The panel decided to award the prize for 2016 to Natalya Vince, Our Fighting Sisters: Nation, Memory and Gender in Algeria, 1954– 2012 published by Manchester University Press. Between 1954 and 1962, Algerian women played a major role in the struggle to end French rule in one of the twentieth century’s most violent wars of decolonisation. This fascinating book provides the first in-depth exploration of what happened to these women after independence in 1962, offering an important insight into an area of women’s history which has until now remained hidden.

http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9780719091070/

The panel also specially commended Laura King’s Family Men. Fatherhood and Masculinity in Britain 1914-1960 published by Oxford University Press. For more about this book see the Reviews in History https://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/1778