Longman-History Today Awards

By Peter Furtado | Published in History Today Volume: 55 Issue: 3 2005

Peter Furtado announces the winners of the 2005 Longman-History Today Awards.

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography juggernaut continued to sweep all before it, when it carried off the Longman-History Today Trustees award for the promotion of history in 2004. This award, and others for Book of the Year, New Generation Book, Undergraduate Dissertation, and Picture Researcher were announced on January 6th, at the Royal Geographical Society. The Trust was set up to commemorate the long relationship between History Today and Longman publishers, and it prizes the creation and popular dissemination of serious history in all its forms. The Book of the Year award, which this year was shared between two authors, the modern German historian Nikolaus Wachsmann and medievalist Joanna Laynesmith, is intended to encourage new writers and is given for an author’s first or second book only. Other prizes were awarded to Ruth Brocklehurst forVictorians, a picture book published by Usborne for secondary school children; Sally Nicholls and Suzanne Bosman for their picture research; and, in an award made jointly by the magazine and the Royal Historical Society, Andrew Arsan of Cambridge for his undergraduate dissertation on Lebanese and Syrian politics in the early twentieth century. The prizes are described in more detail below. We are offering all UK readers the chance to win a set of all the books shortlisted below. Click here to enter the prize draw online. Trustees Award This is given to an individual or organization that has done outstanding work to promote history. The publication of the vast, and vastly useful, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography was undoubtedly the outstanding event in history in 2004, with its famous 62 million words, 60 volumes, and 15,000 contributors covering 55,000 subjects.
Book of the Year Prize For an author’s first or second book in English, published October 2003-September 2004.
Judges: Jeremy Black (University of Exeter), Julian Jackson (Queen Mary, London), Miri Rubin (Queen Mary, London).
Joint winners:

Nikolaus Wachsmann
Hitler’s Prisons: Legal Terror in Nazi Germany (Yale University Press) J. L. Laynesmith
The Last Medieval Queens: English Queenship 1445-1503 (Oxford University Press) Both books are reviewed in our Book Reviews section. Proxime Accessit:

Rana Mitter
A Bitter Revolution: China’s Struggle with the Modern World (Oxford University Press)

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