Frank Watson Book Prize

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

Frank Watson Book Prize winners[4]
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

  1. ^ a b c Frank Watson Book Prize 2021, University of Guelph, retrieved 2024-10-15
  2. ^ International book prize for 'beautifully written' story of Northumbria's 'Golden Age', University of Lancaster, retrieved 2024-10-15
  3. ^ "Frank Watson Book Prize in Scottish History", International Review of Scottish Studies, 45, 2020, retrieved 2024-10-15, p. 130.
  4. ^ "1993-2023". The Frank Watson Book Prize. Retrieved 2024-10-15.