The Royal Historical Society’s Alexander Prize is awarded for a journal article or essay based on original historical research – written by a doctoral candidate or those recently awarded their doctorate – and published in a journal or an edited collection. The 2023 Prize recognises original research published in 2022.
The 2023 Shortlist recognises the scholarly contribution of six articles and essays published in 2022
- Ross Brooks, ‘Bounds of Diversity: Queer Zoology in Europe from Aristotle to John Hunter’, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 195/1 (2022), 1-32
- Jake Dyble, ‘General Average, Human Jettison, and the Status of Slaves in Early Modern Europe’, Historical Journal, 65/5 (2022), 1197-1220
- Nicole Gipson, ‘Making the Third Ghetto: Race, Gender, and Family Homelessness in Washington, DC, 1977–1989’, Journal of American Studies, 56/5 (2022), 699-728
- Abbey Rees-Hales, ‘The Woman Thoroughly Dominates’: Lene Schneider-Kainer (1885-1971) and Weimar Lesbian Erotica’ in Artemis Alexiou and Rose Roberto (eds.), Women in Print 1: Design and Identities (Peter Lang Verlag, 2022)
- Harry Spillane, ‘”A Matter Newly Seene”: The Bishops’ Bible, Matthew Parker, and Elizabethan Antiquarianism’, Reformation, 27/2 (2022), 107-24
- Roseanna Webster, ‘Women and the Fight for Urban Change in Late Francoist Spain’, Past and Present (October 2022)
The Prize offers £250 to the winning author.
THE WINNER OF THIS YEAR’S ALEXANDER PRIZE WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON FRIDAY 21 JULY, ALONG WITH RECIPIENTS OF THE SOCIETY’S OTHER 2023 AWARDS
About the Prize
The Alexander Prize is the Royal Historical Society’s longest-running award, endowed in 1897 by L.C. Alexander, RHS Secretary at the Society’s foundation in 1868.
Authors eligible the Prize must be doctoral students in a historical subject at a UK institution, or be within two years of having a submitted a corrected thesis in a historical subject in a UK institution at the time of the closing date for entries.
Also available: 2023 Whitfield and Gladstone Book Prize Shortlists
The RHS Whitfield Prize is awarded to a first monograph in the field of British and Irish History. This year’s shortlist of six titles is also now available, with the winner announced in late June / early July.
The RHS Gladstone Prize is awarded to a first monograph in the field of European or World History. This year’s shortlist of six titles is also now available, with the winner announced in late June / early July.
