The Frank Watson Book Prize is an international, biennial academic book award, grant "for the best monograph, edited collection and/or book-length original work on Scottish History published in the previous two years."[1] It has been awarded since 1993,[1] It is awarded by a panel of experts organised by the entre for Scottish Studies at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada.[2][1] and comes with an invitation to deliver a plenary lecture.[3]
List of winners
edit| Year | Author | Title | Publisher | Publication Year | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | David Allen | Virtue, Learning and the Scottish Enlightenment: Ideas of Scholarship in Early Modern History | Edinburgh University Press | 1993 | |
| 1995 | Carol Eddington | Court and Culture in Renaissance Scotland: Sir David Lindsay of the Mount | University of Massachusetts Press | 1994 | |
| 1997 | Allan I. Macinnes | Clanship, Commerce, and the House of Stuart, 1603-1788 | Tuckwell Press | 1996 | |
| 1999 | Callum G. Brown | Up-helly-aa: Custom, Culture and Community in Shetland | Manchester University Press | 1998 | |
| 2001 | Keith Brown | Noble Society in Scotland: Wealth, Family, and Culture from the Reformation to the Revolution | Edinburgh University Press | 2000 | |
| 2003 | Richard Rodger | The Transformation of Edinburgh: Land, Property and Trust in the Nineteenth Century | Cambridge University Press | 2001 | |
| 2005 | David Stevenson | The Hunt for Rob Roy: The Man and the Myths | John Donald/Birlinn | 2004 | |
| 2007 | Richard B. Sher | The Enlightenment & the Book: Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, & America | University of Chicago Press, | 2006 | |
| 2009 | John J. McGavin | Theatricality and Narrative in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland | Ashgate | 2007 | |
| 2011 | Diarmid A. Finnegan | Natural History Societies and Civic Culture in Victorian Scotland | Pickering and Chatto Press | 2009 | |
| 2013 | Marjory Harper | Scotland No More? The Scots who Left Scotland in the 20th Century | Luath Press | 2012 | |
| 2015 | Allan Kennedy | Governing Gaeldom: The Scottish Highlands and the Restoration State, 1660-1688 | Brill | 2014 | |
| 2017 | David G. Barrie and Susan Brommhall | Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland | Ashgate | 2015 | |
| 2019 | Tim Shannon | Indian Captive, Indian King: Peter Williamson in America and Britain | Harvard University Press | 2018 | |
| 2021 | Fiona Edmonds | Gaelic Influence in the Northumbrian Kingdom: The Golden Age and the Viking Age | Boydell | 2019 |
References
edit- ^ a b c Frank Watson Book Prize 2021, University of Guelph, retrieved 2024-10-15
- ^ International book prize for 'beautifully written' story of Northumbria's 'Golden Age', University of Lancaster, retrieved 2024-10-15
- ^ "Frank Watson Book Prize in Scottish History", International Review of Scottish Studies, 45, 2020, retrieved 2024-10-15, p. 130.
- ^ "1993-2023". The Frank Watson Book Prize. Retrieved 2024-10-15.