Longman–History Today Awards
The Longman–History Today Awards is the name of an annual awards ceremony, run by Longman and History Today magazine, in which prizes are presented in various categories "to promote the study, publication and accessibility of history to a wide audience." The awards, given in memory of one of the founding editors of History Today, Sir Peter Quennell, are announced at a gala event in London each January.
The award categories are:
- The Trustees Award: given to a person or organisation that has done most to promote history over the last year or years.
- Book of the Year: given for an author’s first or second book.
- Picture Researcher of the Year: given to a researcher who has done outstanding work to enhance a text with the creative, imaginative and wide-ranging selection of appropriate images.
- Undergraduate Dissertation of the Year: for the best dissertation presented by a final-year undergraduate at a British university.
Past winners
.The awards were apparently discontinued after 2019, though no formal announcement appears to have been made.
2019
| Prize | Winner | Runner-up | Highly commended | - |
| The Trustees Award | Claire Breay | - | ||
| Book of the Year Award | Our Boys: The Story of a Paratrooper by Helen Parr | - | ||
| Undergraduate Dissertation Prize | Ella Sbaraini for Rethinking Middle-Aged Women's Sexuality in England, 1700-1815 |
2018
| Prize | Winner | Runner-up | Highly commended | - |
| The Trustees Award | In Our Time | - | ||
| Book of the Year Award | Edmund Burke & the Invention of Modern Convervatism, 1830-1914 by Emily Jones | |||
| Undergraduate Dissertation Prize | Abigail Greenall for Magical Materials and Emotion in the Early Modern East Anglian Household |
2017
| Prize | Winner | Runner-up | Highly commended | - |
| The Trustees Award | David Olusoga | - | ||
| Book of the Year Award | Æthelred the Unready by Levi Roach | - | ||
| Historical Picture Researcher of the Year | Pauline Hubner | |||
| Undergraduate Dissertation Prize | Emma Marshall for Women's Domestic Medical Practice: Recipe Writing and Knowledge Networks in 17th Century England |
2016
| Prize | Winner | Runner-up | Highly commended | - |
| The Trustees Award | David Cesarani | - | ||
| Book of the Year Award | If This Is a Woman—Inside Ravensbruck: Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women by Sarah Helm | - | ||
| Historical Picture Researcher of the Year | Maria Ranuro |
2015
| Prize | Winner | Runner-up | Highly commended | - |
| The Trustees Award | Commonwealth War Graves Commission | - | ||
| Book of the Year Award | London Calling: the BBC World Service and the Cold War by Alban Webb | - | ||
| Historical Picture Researcher of the Year | Laura Canter | |||
| Digital History Award | Eleanor Parker | |||
| Undergraduate Dissertation Prize | Rebecca Pyne-Edwards Banks for Cutting Through the Gordian Knot: The British Military Service Tribunals During the Great War |
2014
| Prize | Winner | Runner-up | Highly commended | - |
| The Trustees Award | Norman Davies | - | ||
| Book of the Year Award | Empire of Secrets: British Intelligence, the Cold War and the Twilight of Empire by Calder Walton | - | ||
| Historical Picture Researcher of the Year | Cathie Arrington | |||
| Digital History Award | Historypin | |||
| Undergraduate Dissertation Prize | Anna Field for Masculinity and Myth: the Highway-woman in Early Modern England |
2013
| Prize | Winner | Runner-up | Highly commended | - |
| The Trustees Award | Pevsner Architectural Guides, published by Yale University Press. | - | ||
| Book of the Year Award | Memories of Empire. Vol. I The White Man’s World by Bill Schwarz | - | ||
| Historical Picture Researcher of the Year | Pauline Hubner | |||
| Undergraduate Dissertation Prize | Frederick Smith for Discerning Cheese from Chalke: Louvainist Propaganda and Recusant Identity in 1560s England |
2012
| Prize | Winner | Runner-up | Highly commended | - |
| The Trustees Award | Professor Gordon Campbell | - | ||
| Book of the Year Award | Evening’s Empire: A History of the Night in Early Modern Europe by Craig Koslofsky | - | ||
| Historical Picture Researcher of the Year | Caroline Hotblack and Cecilia Mackay | |||
| Undergraduate Dissertation Prize | Richard Lowe-Lauri for The Decline of the Stamford Bull-Running c. 1788-1840 |
2010
| Prize | Winner | Runner-up | Highly commended |
| The Trustees Award | Professor Tim Hitchcock and Professor Robert Shoemaker for and . | ||
| Book of the Year Award | Demobbed: Coming Home After the Second World War by Alan Allport | Pashas: Traders and Travellers in the Islamic World by James Mather |
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| Historical Picture Researcher of the Year | Julie McMahon | Steve Behan | |
| Undergraduate Dissertation Prize | Alexander Baggallay for Myths of Mau Mau Expanded: The Role of Rehabilitation in Detention Camps During the State of Emergency in Kenya, 1954-1960 | David Kenrick for Identity and the Politics of Survival: White Rhodesia, 1965-1980 |