Student Awards and Prizes
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The History Department annually awards prizes to students with the best academic performance, either for an individual piece of work, or for overall performance in an academic year, or for the most promising research. The recipients represent the very best academic work being conducted by students in the Department, many of whom go on to further academic research and study, and academic careers. Please also see the list of all University student awards and prizes. |
2017-18
- First Year UG 'Beaumanoir-Hart' History Prize for Best Overall Performance - Zoe Nobileau (History)
- First Year Historian's Toolkit Project Prize - Zoe Nobileau (History)
- Final Year History Long Essay Prize – Audrey Marti (History & Politics)
- Felix Dennis Dissertation Prize – joint winners Ronan Love (History Honours, Modern stream) and Matthew Guy (History Honours with Year Abroad)
- Final Year ‘Iain Smith’ History single-honours prize, inc. Year Abroad students (best overall performance) – joint winners Dan Formston (History Honours, Modern stream) and Laura Martin-Akroyd (History Honours, Modern stream)
- Final Year ‘Roger Magraw’ History joint-honours prize (best overall performance) – Matthew Allen (History & Politics)
- Final Year ‘Chris Clark’ CAS prize (best overall performance) – Sebastian Modos (History, Literature and Cultures of the Americas)
2016-17
- First Year UG 'Beaumanoir-Hart' History Prize for Best Overall Performance Stephen Clifford (French and History)
- First Year Making History Project Prize Bethany Hewlett (History Honours) for the project 'Evaluate the Changing Portrayal of the 1984-5 Miner's Strike in Popular Culture'.
- Second Year UG History Prize for Best Overall Performance Charlotte Rothnie (French and History)
- Second Year UG CAS Prize for Best Overall Performance Jointly awarded to Phoebe Studdert-Kennedy and Mallory Thorpe
- Final Year UG 'Iain Smith' History Single-Honours Prize for Best Overall Performance Eleanor Webb (History, Renaissance and Modern stream)
- Final Year UG 'Roger Magraw' History Joint-Honours Prize for Best Overall Performance Michael Barton (History and Politics)
- Final Year UG 'Chris Clark' CAS Prize for Best Overall Performance Will Britton-Minney (CAS)
- Final Year UG Long Essay Prize Elisabeth Lambrou (History, Modern stream) for the essay 'Your Body Belongs to You': The British Women's Liberation Movement and the Struggle for Female Autonomy
- Felix Dennis UG Dissertation Prize Emma Buchanan (History, Modern stream) for the dissertation 'Lero, Lilliaburlero': An Invitation to Engage with the Music of our Past
- MA Dissertation Prize - Joshua Patel (MA in Global and Comparative History) for his dissertation "Telling the ‘truth’ about the ‘biological turn’? Sociocultural history and pragmatism"
- Sir John Elliott Prize for Best Overall Performance in an MA
- Angela Hu Gui, MA in the History of Medicine
- Best Overall Performance in the MA in Global & Comparative History: Maria Reyes Baztan
- Best Overall Performance in the MA in Early Modern History: Cameron Collard
- Best Overall Performance in the MA in Modern History: Connor Woodman
2015-16
- First Year UG 'Beaumanoir-Hart' History Prize for Best Overall Performance
William Gaby (History, Modern History stream) - First Year Making History Project Prize
Samir Modi (History, Modern History stream) for the project 'To What Extent did the 'New Hollywood Movement' of the 1960's and 1970's Reflect the Attitudes of Society at the Time?' - First Year UG CAS Prize for Best Overall Performance
Phoebe Studdert-Kennedy (CAS) - Second Year UG History Prize for Best Overall Performance
Emma Buchanan (History, Modern History stream) - Second Year UG CAS Prize for Best Overall Performance
Michal Murray (CAS) - Final Year UG 'Iain Smith' History Single-Honours Prize for Best Overall Performance
Hope Priddle (History, Modern History stream) - Final Year UG 'Roger Magraw' History Joint-Honours Prize for Best Overall Performance
Thomas Gennoy (German and History) - Final Year UG 'Chris Clark' CAS Prize for Best Overall Performance
Ella Passingham (CAS) - Final Year UG Long Essay Prize
Ben-Kilian Fleuss (History, Renaissance and Modern History stream) for the essay 'Kaitai Shinsho and the Introductionof dutch Medical Knowledge to Japan' - Felix Dennis UG Dissertation Prize
Tom Gennoy (German and History) for the dissertation 'The Makings of a Miracle: Pacifism and Paralysis in the East German Revolution' - Sir John H. Elliott Prize for Best Overall Performance in an MA
Ally Lee, MA in History & Film - MA Dissertation Prize
David Civil, for his dissertation 'The Birth of Meritocracy: Michael Young and The Labour Party, 1945-1958'. - Best Overall Performance in the MA in the History of Medicine
Fabiola Creed - Best Overall Performance in the MA in Modern History
David Civil - Best Overall Performance in the MA in History & Film
Ally Lee - Dr Joan Lane Memorial Bursary
David Civil
2014-15
- First Year UG 'Beaumanoir-Hart' History Prize for Best Overall Performance
Oliver Buckley-Mellor (History) - First Year Making History Project Prize
Christina Kerr (French and History) for the project 'To what Extent were Discussions about Maternal Health Care and Midwifery a Reflectionof the Changing Position of Women in Society in the Interwar Period?' - First Year UG CAS Prize for Best Overall Performance
Samuel Blurton (CAS) - Second Year UG History Prize for Best Overall Performance
Lewis Holden (History and Politics) - Second Year UG CAS Prize for Best Overall Performance
Will Britton-Minney (CAS) - Final Year UG 'Iain Smith' History Single-Honours Prize for Best Overall Performance
Alexander Green (History with Year Abroad) - Final Year UG 'Roger Magraw' History Joint-Honours Prize for Best Overall Performance
Julia Dobson (French and History) - Final Year UG 'Chris Clark' CAS Prize for Best Overall Performance
Joseph Watt (CAS) - Final Year UG Long Essay Prize
Harvey Day (History, Modern stream) for the essay 'Queer in the Camp: Questioning Normativity in Holocaust Survivor Narratives.' - Felix Dennis UG Dissertation Prize
Jordan Flynn (History, Modern stream) for the dissertation 'The Vail of Innocence: Problems with Child Protagonists in Cinematic Representation of the Holocaust.' - Sir John H. Elliott Prize for Best Overall Performance in an MA
Lewis Smith (MA in History) - MA Dissertation Prize
Andrew Burchell (MA in the History of Medicine) for his dissertation 'An "educational" or "parental" relationship: psycho-pathology, pedagogy and corporal punishment in English schools, c.1945-1986' - Dr Joan Lane Memorial Bursary
Sarah Jane Bodell
2013-14
- First Year UG 'Beaumanoir-Hart' History Prize for Best Overall Performance
Joanne Young (History) - First Year Making History Project Prize
Anna Wilson (History and Politics) for the project 'How Present was the Threat of Nuclear War in the Everyday Lives of British Children in the Early to Mid-1960s?' - First Year UG CAS Prize for Best Overall Performance
Will Britton-Minney (CAS) - Second Year UG History Prize for Best Overall Performance
Reece Decastro (History) - Second Year UG CAS Prize for Best Overall Performance
Ella Passingham (CAS) - Final Year UG 'Iain Smith' History Single-Honours Prize for Best Overall Performance
Alice Bennington (History with Year Abroad) - Final Year UG 'Roger Magraw' History Joint-Honours Prize for Best Overall Performance
Holly Winter (History and Politics) - Final Year UG 'Chris Clark' CAS Prize for Best Overall Performance
Sam Underwood (CAS) - Final Year UG Long Essay Prize
Lewis Smith (History and Politics Year Abroad), for the essay 'A Vast Stage of the Possible: Space and Radical Protest in Western Europe, 1960-1982' - Felix Dennis UG Dissertation Prize
Oliver Hirst (History with Year Abroad), for the dissertation 'Mapping the Unknown: the Geographical and Iconographical Representation of the New World in Sixteenth-century European Cartography' - Sir John H. Elliott Prize for Best Overall Performance in an MA
Patrick Fleming (MA in History) - MA Dissertation Prize
Daniel Patterson (MA in Religious, Social & Cultural History), for the dissertation 'Becoming a man in Early Modern Britain: personal experiences of masculinity, c1660-1700'. - Dr Joan Lane Memorial Bursary
Sophie Greenway
2012-13
- First Year UG 'Beaumanoir-Hart' History Prize for Best Overall Performance
Harriet Roberts (History) - First Year UG Prize for Exceptional Performance
Eleanor Barnett (History) - Second Year UG History Prize for Best Overall Performance
Jointly awarded to Imogen Rome-Hall (History) and Charles Beirouti (French and History) - Second Year UG CAS Prize for Best Overall Performance
Joseph Watt (CAS) - Final Year UG 'Iain Smith' History Single-Honours Prize for Best Overall Performance
Matthew Jenkins (History with Year Abroad) - Final Year UG 'Roger Magraw' History Joint-Honours Prize for Best Overall Performance
Colin Adams (History and Culture and Italian) - Final Year UG 'Chris Clark' CAS Prize for Best Overall Performance
Matthew Lumley (CAS) - Final Year UG Long Essay Prize
Bertram Vidgen (History and Politics), for the essay 'Is the Term "Totalitarianism" Useful for Understanding Stalin's Russia' - Felix Dennis UG Dissertation Prize
Gregory Bond (History with Year Abroad), for the dissertation 'The Death of Lin Weixi: Legal Ritual and the Politics of Difference in the First Opium War, 1839-1842' - Sir John H. Elliott Prize for Best Overall Performance in an MA
Mara Gregory (MA in the History of Medicine) - MA Dissertation Prize
Mara Gregory (MA in the History of Medicine), for the dissertation ‘Beamed directly to the children’: School Broadcasting and Sex Education in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s'. - Dr Joan Lane Memorial Bursary
Stephen Bates
2011-12
- First Year UG 'Beaumanoir-Hart' History Prize for Best Overall Performance
Thomas Papworth (History) - Second Year UG History Prize for Best Overall Performance
Alice Bennington (History) - Second Year UG CAS Prize for Best Overall Performance
Sam Underwood (CAS) - Final Year UG Prize for Exceptional Performance
Varvara-Vera Pratikaki (History) - Final Year UG 'Iain Smith' History Single-Honours Prize for Best Overall Performance
Frederick Smith (History) - Final Year UG 'Roger Magraw' History Joint-Honours Prize for Best Overall Performance
Mikko Toivanen (History and Politics) - Final Year UG 'Chris Clark' CAS Prize for Best Overall Performance
Jointly awarded to Charlotte Milligan (CAS) and Beth Walton (CAS) - Final Year UG Long Essay Prize
Jack Gould (History and Politics), for the essay 'The War in the North: Assessing the Relationship between Identity, Conflict and the State in Musevini's Uganda' - Felix Dennis UG Dissertation Prize
Frederick Smith (History), for the dissertation 'Discerning Cheese from Chalke: Louvainist Propaganda and Recusant Identity in 1560s England' - Sir John H. Elliott Prize for Best Overall Performance in an MA
John Morgan (MA in Religious, Social and Cultural History, 1500-1750) - MA Dissertation Prize
Anna Dawson (MA in History) - Dr Joan Lane Memorial Bursary
Matthew Jackson
2010-11
- First Year UG 'Beaumanoir-Hart' History Prize for Best Overall Performance
Alice Bennington (History) - Second Year UG History Prize for Best Overall Performance
Frederick Smith (History) - Final Year UG 'Iain Smith' History Single-Honours Prize for Best Overall Performance
Joseph Francombe (History) - Final Year UG 'Roger Magraw' History Joint-Honours Prize for Best Overall Performance
Nicola Hemmings (History and Culture) - Final Year UG 'Chris Clark' CAS Prize for Best Overall Performance
Lucy Bollington (CAS) - Felix Dennis UG Dissertation Prize
Lucy Bollington (CAS), for the dissertation 'A frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every fork: Perceiving Mechanisms of Social Control through William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch' - Sir John H. Elliott Prize for Best Overall Performance in an MA
Ellen Filor (MA in Global History) - MA Dissertation Prize
Jointly awarded to Grace Huxford (MA in Modern History), Denise Lim (MA in History), and Laure Philip (MA in Eighteeth-Century Studies) - Dr Joan Lane Memorial Bursary
Jessica Wain
2009-10
- First Year UG 'Beaumanoir-Hart' History Prize for Best Overall Performance
Thomas Duckmanton (History) - Second Year UG History Prize for Best Overall Performance
Joseph Francombe (History) - Final Year UG 'Iain Smith' History Single-Honours Prize for Best Overall Performance
Grace Huxford (History) - Final Year UG 'Roger Magraw' History Joint-Honours Prize for Best Overall Performance
Thomas Bray (History and Culture) - Final Year UG 'Chris Clark' CAS Prize for Best Overall Performance
Jointly awarded to Francesca Doggart (CAS) and Ben Darlington (CAS) - Felix Dennis UG Dissertation Prize
Sophie McKechnie (History), for the dissertation 'What was the significance of clothing in the Mutiny and Rebellion of 1857-58?' - Sir John H. Elliott Prize for Best Overall Performance in an MA
Anne Thompson (MA in Religious and Social History, 1500-1700) - Dr Joan Lane Memorial Bursary
William Rupp
2008-09
- First Year UG 'Beaumanoir-Hart' History Prize for Best Overall Performance
Varvara-Vera Pratikaki (History) - Second Year UG History Prize for Best Overall Performance
Grace Huxford (History) - Final Year UG 'Iain Smith' History Single-Honours Prize for Best Overall Performance
Grace Allen (History) - Final Year UG 'Roger Magraw' History Joint-Honours Prize for Best Overall Performance
Benjamin Gibert (History and Politics) - Final Year UG 'Chris Clark' CAS Prize for Best Overall Performance
Joni Lewis (CAS) - Felix Dennis UG Dissertation Prize
Grace Allen (History), for the dissertation 'What was the influence of Aristotle’s Nicomacean Ethics on the works of Dante?' - Sir John H. Elliott Prize for Best Overall Performance in an MA
Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin (MA in Religious and Social History, 1500-1700) - Dr Joan Lane Memorial Bursary
Judith Flint
2007-08
- First Year UG 'Beaumanoir-Hart' History Prize for Best Overall Performance
Grace Huxford (History) - Second Year UG History Prize for Best Overall Performance
Grace Allen (History) - Final Year UG 'Iain Smith' History Single-Honours Prize for Best Overall Performance
Luke Johnson (History) - Final Year UG 'Roger Magraw' History Joint-Honours Prize for Best Overall Performance
Johanna Hughes (History and Sociology) - Final Year UG 'Chris Clark' CAS Prize for Best Overall Performance
Laurence Wilkes (CAS) - Felix Dennis UG Dissertation Prize
Timothy Davies (History), for the dissertation 'What did Indian merchants do? Gujarat and the trade to East Africa in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries' - Sir John H. Elliott Prize for Best Overall Performance in an MA
Celia Hughes (MA in History) - Dr Joan Lane Memorial Bursary
William Rupp
2006-07
- First Year UG 'Beaumanoir-Hart' History Prize for Best Overall Performance
Emily New (History) - Second Year UG History Prize for Best Overall Performance
Johanna Hughes (History and Sociology) - Final Year UG 'Iain Smith' History Single-Honours Prize for Best Overall Performance
Brandon Ovington (History) - Final Year UG 'Roger Magraw' History Joint-Honours Prize for Best Overall Performance
Robyn Sherwell (History and Politics) - Felix Dennis UG Dissertation Prize
Eirwen Pierrot (History), for the dissertation 'From saintly virgin to pious wife: picturing the female ideal in Reformation and post-Reformation Northern Europe' - Sir John H. Elliott Prize for Best Overall Performance in an MA
Mark Hailwood (MA in Religious and Social History, 1500-1700) - Dr Joan Lane Memorial Bursary
Sian Thurgood