Gladstone Prize
Encyclopedia
The Gladstone Prize is an annual prize awarded by the Royal Historical Society
to debut authors for a history book published in Britain
on any topic which is not primarily British history. The prize is named in honour of William Ewart Gladstone
and was made possible by a grant by the Gladstone Memorial Trust. It was first awarded in 1998, the centenary of Gladstone’s death.
Royal Historical Society
The Royal Historical Society was founded in 1868. The premier society in the United Kingdom which promotes and defends the scholarly study of the past, it is based at University College London...
to debut authors for a history book published in Britain
Great Britain
Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...
on any topic which is not primarily British history. The prize is named in honour of William Ewart Gladstone
William Ewart Gladstone
William Ewart Gladstone FRS FSS was a British Liberal statesman. In a career lasting over sixty years, he served as Prime Minister four separate times , more than any other person. Gladstone was also Britain's oldest Prime Minister, 84 years old when he resigned for the last time...
and was made possible by a grant by the Gladstone Memorial Trust. It was first awarded in 1998, the centenary of Gladstone’s death.
List of winners
- 1997 - Stuart Clark, Thinking with Demons: the idea of witchcraft in early modern Europe
- 1998 - Patrick Major, The Death of the KPD: Communism and Anti-Communism in West Germany, 1945-1956
- 1999 - Frances Stonor SaundersFrances Stonor SaundersFrances Hélène Jeanne Stonor Saunders is a British journalist and historian.A few years after graduating with a first-class Honours degree in English from St Anne's College, Oxford, she embarked on a career as a television film-maker...
, Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, ISBN 1-86207-029-6 - 2000 - Matthew Innes, State and Society in the Middle Ages: The Middle Rhine Valley, 400-1000
- 2001 - Nora Berend, At the Gate of Christendom. Jews, Muslims and 'Pagans' in Medieval Hungary, c.1000-c.1300
- 2002 - Shared - David Hopkin, Soldier and Peasant in French Popular Culture, 1766-1870 and Guy RowlandsGuy RowlandsGuy Rowlands is a British academic and historian specialising in the history of France. In 2002 he was the winner of the Gladstone Book Prize awarded annually by the Royal Historical Society...
, The Dynastic State and the Army Under Louis XIV - 2003 - Shared - Norbert Peabody, Hindu Kingship and Polity in Precolonial India and Michael Rowe, From Reich to State: the Rhineland in the Revolutionary Age, 1780-1830
- 2004 - Nikolaus Wachsmann, Hitler’s Prisons: Legal Terror in Nazi Germany
- 2005 - Robert Foley, German Strategy and the Path to Verdun: Erich von Falkenhayn and the Development of Attrition, 1870-1850
- 2006 - James E. Shaw, The Justice of Venice. Authorities and Liberties in the Urban Economy, 1550-1700
- 2007 - Yasmin Khan, The Great Partition: the Making of India and Pakistan
- 2008 - Dr Caroline Dodds Pennock, Bonds of Blood: Gender, Lifecycle and Sacrifice in Aztec Culture