RHN 140/2021 | Opportunity
British Agricultural History Society (BAHS)
Closing date for submissions: 10 January 2022
The Joan Thirsk Memorial Prize 2022
Submissions are invited for the Joan Thirsk Memorial Prize offered by the British Agricultural History Society in memory of Joan Thirsk (1922–2013). The Thirsk prize is an annual award for the best book in British and Irish rural or agrarian history employing broadly historical methodology (so works of social anthropology, archaeology or of contemporary rural sociology will not be eligible). There is a single prize of £500 (which may be split) and the committee are allowed to commend other submissions. The prize was first awarded in 2017 and is now offered for books published in the calendar year 2021.
To be eligible for consideration, the work needs to
- be single-authored or jointly authored
- be concerned with British or Irish agrarian or rural history either as its central focus or with substantial treatment of the British or Irish experience in a comparative context
- bear a (first) publication date of 2021.
There are no limits on the age or nationality of the author, nor their place of residence. Collections of essays by multiple authors, unrevised theses or works previously issued in hardback but reissued in paperback in 2021 will not be eligible. The winner of the prize will be announced in April 2022.
The rules for the 2022 prize can be found at the BAHS Website: https://www.bahs.org.uk/ThirskPrize.html
Source: BAHS