Whitfield-Preis

Der Whitfield-Preis (engl. Whitfield Prize) war ein jährlich von der Royal Historical Society (RHS) verliehener Preis für das beste Buch zur britischen oder irischen Geschichte des Jahres. Es muss das erste Buch des Autors auf diesem Gebiet sein. Der Preis war (Stand 2015) mit 1000 Pfund dotiert und wurde seit 1976 verliehen.

Bis 2013 bezog sich das Jahr des Preises auf den jeweiligen Wettbewerbszeitraum, wenn auch der Preis erst im Folgejahr vergeben wurde. Seit 2015 wurde als Jahr des Preises das Vergabejahr angegeben.

Beginnend mit dem Jahr 2025 gibt die RHS die Trennung zwischen britisch/irischer (Whitfield-Preis) und nicht-britisch/irischer Geschichte (Gladstone-Preis) auf und vergibt nur noch einen First Book Prize mit jährlich zwei Preisträgern.

Preisträger

1977: K. D. Brown, John Burns
1978: Marie Axton, The Queen's Two Bodies: Drama and the Elizabethan Succession
1979: Patricia Crawford, Denzil Holles, 1598–1680: A study of his Political Career
1980: D. L. Rydz, The Parliamentary Agents: A History
1981: Scott M. Harrison, The Pilgrimage of Grace in the Lake Counties, 1536–7
1982: Norman L. Jones, Faith by Statute: Parliament and the Settlement of Religion, 1559
1983: Peter Clark, The English Alehouse: A social history, 1200–1830
1984: David Hempton, Methodism and Politics in British Society, 1750–1850
1985: K. D. M. Snell, Annals of the Labouring Poor
1986: Diarmaid MacCulloch, Suffolk and the Tudors: Politics and Religion in an English County, 1500–1600
1987: Kevin M. Sharpe, Criticism and Compliment: The politics of literature in the England of Charles I
1988: J. H. Davis, Reforming London, the London Government Problem, 1855–1900
1989: A. G. Rosser, Medieval Westminster, 1200–1540
1990: Duncan M. Tanner, Political change and the Labour party, 1900–1918
1991: Tessa Watt, Cheap Print and Popular Piety, 1550–1640
1992: Christine Carpenter, Locality and Polity: A Study of Warwickshire Landed Society, 1401 -1499
1993: Jeanette M. Neeson, Commoners: common right; enclosure and social change in England, 1700- 1820
1994: V. A. C. Gatrell, The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English people, 1770–1868
1995: Kathleen Wilson, The Sense of the People: Politics, Culture and Imperialism in England, 1715–1785
1996: Paul D. Griffiths, Youth and Authority Formative Experience in England, 1560–1640
1997: Christopher Tolley, Domestic Biography: the legacy of evangelicalism in four nineteenth-century families
1998: Amanda Vickery, The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England
1999: John Walter, Understanding Popular Violence in the English Revolution: The Colchester Plunderers
2000: Adam Fox, Oral and Literate Culture in England, 1500–1700
2001: John Goodall, God's House at Ewelme: Life, Devotion and Architecture in a Fifteenth Century Almshouse
2001: Frank Salmon, Building on Ruins: The Rediscovery of Rome and English Architecture
2002: Ethan H. Shagan, Popular Politics and the English Reformation
2003: Christine Peters, Patterns of Piety: Women, Gender and Religion in Late Medieval and Reformation England
2004: M. J. D. Roberts, Making English Morals: Voluntary Association and Moral reform in England, 1787–1886
2005: Matt Houlbrooke, Queer London
2006: Kate Fisher, Birth Control, Sex and Marriage in Britain, 1918–1960
2007: Stephen Baxter, The Earls of Mercia: Lordship and Power in Late Anglo-Saxon England
2008: Duncan Bell, The Idea of Greater Britain: Empire and the Future of World Order, 1860–1900
2008: Stephen M. Lee, George Canning and Liberal Toryism, 1801–1827
2008: Frank Trentmann, Free Trade Nation: Commerce, Consumption and Civil Society in Modern Britain
2009: Nicholas Draper, The price of emancipation: slave-ownership, compensation and British society at the end of slavery
2010: Arnold Hunt, The Art of Hearing: English Preachers and their Audiences 1590-1640
2011: Jacqueline Elizabeth Rose, Godly Kingship in Restoration England: The Politics of The Royal Supremacy, 1660–1688
2012: Ben Griffin, The Politics of Gender in Victorian Britain. Masculinity, Political Culture and the Struggle for Women’s Rights
2013: Scott Sowerby, Making Toleration: The Repealers and The Glorious Revolution
2015: John Sabapathy, Officers and Accountability in Medieval England 1170–1300
2016: Aysha Pollnitz, Princely Education in Early Modern Britain
2017: William Cavert, The Smoke of London: Energy and Environment in the Early Modern City
2017: Alice Taylor, The Shape of the State in Medieval Scotland, 1124–1290
2018: Brian Hall, Communications and British Operations on the Western Front, 1914–1918
2019: Ryan Hanley, Beyond Slavery and Abolition: Black British Writing, c.1770–1830
2020: Niamh Gallagher, Ireland and the Great War: A Social and Political History
2021: Jackson Armstrong, England’s Northern Frontier: Conflict and Local Society in the Fifteenth-Century Scottish Marches
2022: Kristin D. Hussey, Imperial Bodies in London Empire, Mobility, and the Making of British Medicine, 1880–1914
2023: Síobhra Aiken, Spiritual Wounds. Trauma, Testimony & the Irish Civil War
2024: Sara Caputo, Foreign Jack Tars: The British Navy and Transnational Seafarers during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

Weblinks

Prizes der Royal Historical Society (royalhistsoc.org)
Recipients of the Royal Historical Society book prizes, 1977–2024 (royalhistsoc.org)