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Midland History Annual Essay Prize

Created 01 Jan 2017| Updated 15 Jun 2023 | 6 articles

The Midland History Essay Prize worth £400 is offered each year for the best essay submitted to the academic journal Midland History on an historical subject relating to midland England.

Winners

  • 2022 winner: Denise Greany, MA in English Local and Family History, University of Leicester

  • 2021 winner: Sarah Jordan, Independent Researcher

  • 2020 winner: Ginny Hartley, PhD student, Department of History and Cultures, University of Birmingham

  • 2018 winner: Diane Strange, PhD student, Centre for English Local History, University of Leicester

  • 2017 winner: Nicola Blacklaws, PhD student, School of History, Politics and International Relations, University of Leicester

Browse the prize-winning articles below.

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Article
‘We Did Not Go’; Domestic Sociability in Early Nineteenth-Century Lutterworth, Leicestershire
Denise Greany

Originally published in Midland History, Volume: 48, Number: 1 (02 Jan 2023)

Published online: 20 Feb 2023
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Edward Bindon Marten: Sanitation Engineering and Industrial Safety in the Black Country
Sarah Jordan

Originally published in Midland History, Volume: 47, Number: 2 (04 May 2022)

Published online: 09 Jun 2022
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Industrial Politics, Technological Expertise and Scientific Knowledge: The Birmingham Metal Button Dispute, 1795-1800
Ginny Hartley

Originally published in Midland History, Volume: 46, Number: 3 (02 Sep 2021)

Published online: 14 Sep 2021
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From Private Sin to Public Shame: Sir John Digby and the use of Star Chamber in Northamptonshire and Bedfordshire, 1610
Midland History Essay Prize, 2018
Diane Strange

Originally published in Midland History, Volume: 44, Number: 1 (02 Jan 2019)

Published online: 05 Mar 2019
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‘Old’ and ‘New’ Welfare: The Poor Law and Social Housing in Leicestershire, c.1925-1929
Midland History Essay Prize 2017
Nicola Blacklaws

Originally published in Midland History, Volume: 43, Number: 1 (02 Jan 2018)

Published online: 25 May 2018
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Doctors, Druggists and Patients: The End of the Medical Marketplace in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Gloucester
David Peter Helm

Originally published in Midland History, Volume: 43, Number: 1 (02 Jan 2018)

Published online: 25 May 2018
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