The Social History Society’s Book Prize设立于2018年，主要颁发给社会史和文化史领域的创新性研究，书目由各出版社推荐。该奖项2023年度主要由Pat Thane, Lucy Noakes, Phillipp Schofield和Naomi Tadmor担任评审。以下是历年获奖名单：

2023年

WINNER: Laura Gowing for Ingenious Trade: Women and Work in Seventeenth-Century London (Cambridge University Press, 2021).

作者感言：

I’m delighted and honoured to receive this prize. It also recognises all the important new feminist research on early modern women’s work, demonstrating the centrality of labour, business, employment, training and skill to women’s lives. Alongside the compelling stories of legal records, I drew heavily on digitised data to uncover women’s part in the economic and social networks of early modern communities. Thinking about the human relationships involved in skilled work, and the overlap of household and labour relations, was particularly pointed during the isolations of the pandemic.

RUNNER UP: Simon Morgan for Celebrities, Heroes and Champions: Popular Politicians in the Age of Reform, 1810-67 (Manchester University Press, 2021).

作者感言：

The idea for this book came when I realised that by the nineteenth-century, popular political culture overlapped with and fed into broader practices of celebrity and hero worship that had been little studied. I decided that the only way to examine these connections properly was to look across a diverse range of extra-parliamentary causes usually studied in isolation, and I’m thrilled that the prize committee enjoyed the result.

2022年

WINNER: Lucy Noakes for Dying for the Nation. Death, Grief and Bereavement in Second World War Britain (Manchester University Press, 2020).

作者感言：

It wasn’t always an easy book to research and write. It is important that we do all that we can to have empathy with those who suffer in war and conflict today, and I hope that history can help us to develop this through an understanding of the lives, and deaths, of those who experienced past wars.

2021年

WINNER: Lucy Bland for Britain’s Brown Babies: The stories of children born to black GIs and white women in the Second World War (Manchester University Press, 2019)

作者感言：

A lot of people often hadn’t even told their children or their husbands or their wives about their childhoods…It could be quite difficult for them, but here I was: a very sympathetic stranger who wanted to hear what they had to say. So it poured out. And many have said that it was so important: at last, their story was being told; at last, someone was hearing about their lives.

COMMENDATION: John Henderson for Florence under Siege: Surviving Plague in an Early Modern City (Yale University Press, 2019)

COMMENDATION: Suzannah Lipscomb for The Voices of Nimes: Women, Sex and Marriage in Reformation Languedoc (Oxford University Press, 2019)

2020年

WINNER: Khaled Fahmy for In Quest of Justice. Islamic Law and Forensic Medicine in Modern Egypt (University of California Press, 2018)

RUNNER UP: Ian Forrest for Trustworthy Men: How Inequality and Faith made the Medieval Church (Princeton University Press, 2018)

2019年

WINNER: Hannah Barker for Family & Business during the Industrial Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2017)

作者感言：

I’m thrilled to be awarded this prize. In common with many monographs, Family and Business During the Industrial Revolution was a long time in the making and, like the family businesses which the book describes, involved the input and hard work of more than one person. Thanks to AHRC funding, I was fortunate to be able to call on a team of research assistants who provided valuable help in the latter stages of the project including Nathan Booth, Stephen Connolly, Katherine Davies, Marci Freedman, and Lucinda Matthews-Jones. During the early research I was lucky to work with two postdoctoral research associates who did much of the heavy lifting in the archives and who also co-authored two of the book’s chapters with me: Jane Hamlett and Mina Ishizu.

RUNNER UP: Sabine Lee for Children Born of War in the Twentieth Century (Manchester University Press, 2017)

2018年

WINNER: Sasha Handley for Sleep in Early Modern England (Yale University Press, 2016)

RUNNER UP: Jon Stobart and Mark Rothery for Consumption and the Country House by (Oxford University Press, 2016)

详情可见：https://socialhistory.org.uk/prizes/book-prize/