A list of the current and previous winners of the Library History Essay Award from 2011.

 

Library History Essay Award 2024

Winner: Eve Lacey, 'The role of Halkevi libraries in the early Turkish Republic', Library and Information History, 39.2 (2023), 92-109.

 

Library History Essay Award 2023

No award was made in 2023

 

Library History Essay Award 2022

Winner: Matthew Sangster, Karen Baston and Brian Aitken, 'Reconstructing student reading habits in eighteenth-century Glasgow: Enlightenment systems and digital  reconfigurations', Eighteenth-Century Studies, 54.4 (2021), 935-55.

 

Library History Essay Award 2021

This year we had two winners:

Joshua Ehrlich, 'Plunder and prestige: Tipu Sultan's library and the making of British India', South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 43.3 (2020), 478-92. 

John R. Hodgson, ‘"Spoils of many a distant land": the Earls of Crawford and the collecting of oriental manuscripts in the nineteenth century', Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 48.6 (2020), 1011-47.

  

Library History Essay Award 2019

Winner: Sophie Defrance for ‘“He was always fond of books”: John Couch Adams’s genesis as an academic collector’, in A. Bautz and J. Gregory (eds), Libraries, Books, and Collectors of Texts, 1600-1900 (Routledge, 2018), ch. 7, pp. 119–36. 

Highly Commended: Karen Attar for ‘Folios in context: Collecting Shakespeare at the University of London’, The Library, 7^th series, 19.1 (March 2018), 39–62.

  

Library History Essay Award 2018

Winner: Lauren Weiss for '"All are instructive if read in a right spirit": Reading, religion, and instruction in a Victorian reading diary', Library & Information History, 33.2 (2017), 97–122.

 

Library History Essay Award 2017

Winner: Nicolas K. Kiessling for 'James Molloy and sales of recusant books to the United States', The Catholic Historical Review, 102.3 (2016), 545–80.

 

Library History Essay Award 2016

Winner: Craig Robertson for 'Paper, Information and Identity in 1920s America', Information & Culture, 50.3 (2015), 392–416.

 

Library History Essay Award 2015

Winner: Sterling J. Coleman for '"No room for her here!". The numerical feminization of public librarianship in England, 1871–1914’, Library & Information History, 30.2 (May 2014), 90–109. 

 

Library History Essay Award 2014

Winner of the 1st prize of £200 (sponsored by Emerald Publishing): Michael Riordan for '"The King's Library of Manuscripts": The State Paper Office as Archive and Library', Information & Culture, 48.2 (2013), 181–93.

Winner of the 2nd prize of £100 (sponsored by LIHG): Michelle Johansen for ‘“The Father and Mother of the Place”: Inhabiting London’s public libraries, 1885–1940’. Chapter 8, in Residential Institutions in Britain, 1725–1970 (Pickering and Chatto, 2013), pp. 125–39. 

 

Library History Essay Award 2013

Winner:  Alistair Black for ‘Organizational learning and home-grown writing: The library staff magazine in Britain in the first half of the twentieth century’, Information & Culture, vol. 47.4 (2012), 487–513.

 

Library History Essay Award 2012

Winner:  Gerard G. Moate for ‘The “lost” library of William Burkitt, 1650-1703’, The Library, 7th series, 12.2 (2011), 119–41.

Highly Commended:  Robyn Adams for ‘Sixteenth-century intelligencers and their maps’, Imago Mundi: The International Journal for the History of Cartography, 63.2 (2011), 201–18.

Library History Essay Award 2011

Winner:  Karen McAulay for ‘From “anti-Scot”, to “anti-Scottish sentiment”: Cultural nationalism and Scottish song in the late eighteenth to nineteenth centuries’, Library & Information History, 26.4 (2010), 272–88.

Highly Commended:  Peter Hoare for ‘The library world of Nottinghamshire in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century’, Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire, 114 (2010), 113–33.