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The Curriers’ Company London History Essay Prize

Created 01 Jan 2014| Updated 12 Apr 2023 | 9 articles

The Curriers' Prize London Journal Essay Prize is awarded annually to the best essay on London life, past or present, submitted by an early career scholar. Details of this year's competition can be found here. The deadline for entries is 28 February 2023.

Past Prize Winners

  • 2019 Winner: Kirstin A. Barnard

  • 2017 Winner: Emily Vine

  • 2016 Winner: Charlotte Berry

  • 2015 Joint Winners: Eleanor Bland and Jack Brown

  • 2014 Winner: Ian Stone

Browse the prize-winning essays and runners-up in the collection below.

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The Mercers’ Company, London, and St Thomas Becket During the Reformation
Kirstin A. Barnard

Originally published in The London Journal, Volume: 45, Number: 3 (01 Sep 2020)

Published online: 02 Oct 2020
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Women, Guilds and the Tailoring Trades: The Occupational Training of Merchant Taylors’ Company Apprentices in Early Modern London
Sarah Birt

Originally published in The London Journal, Volume: 46, Number: 2 (04 May 2021)

Published online: 02 Sep 2020
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‘Those Enemies of Christ, if They are Suffered to Live Among us’: Locating Religious Minority Homes and Private Space in Early Modern London
Emily Vine

Originally published in The London Journal, Volume: 43, Number: 3 (09 Nov 2018)

Published online: 24 Sep 2018
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The Watchdogs of Georgian London: Non-human Agency, Crime Prevention and Control of Urban Space
Tom Almeroth-Williams

Originally published in The London Journal, Volume: 43, Number: 3 (09 Nov 2018)

Published online: 05 Oct 2018
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‘To Avoide All Envye, Malys, Grudge and Displeasure’: Sociability and Social Networking at the London Wardmote Inquest, c.1470–1540
Charlotte Berry

Originally published in The London Journal, Volume: 42, Number: 3 (02 Sep 2017)

Published online: 26 Sep 2017
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‘We Care Not a Fig, Who is Lord Mayor of London, or Tory or Whig’: Popular Political Culture in the City of London, c.1725–1746
Eleanor Bland

Originally published in The London Journal, Volume: 42, Number: 1 (02 Jan 2017)

Published online: 24 Oct 2016
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If You Build it, They Will Come: The Role of Individuals in the Emergence of Canary Wharf, 1985–1987
Jack Brown

Originally published in The London Journal, Volume: 42, Number: 1 (02 Jan 2017)

Published online: 01 Dec 2016
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Arnold Fitz Thedmar: Identity, Politics and the City of London in the Thirteenth Century
Ian Stone

Originally published in The London Journal, Volume: 40, Number: 2 (01 Jul 2015) 40th Anniversary of The London Journal

Published online: 10 Jun 2015
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Redressing Reform Narratives: Victorian London's Street Markets and the Informal Supply Lines of Urban Modernity
Peter T. A. Jones

Originally published in The London Journal, Volume: 41, Number: 1 (02 Jan 2016)

Published online: 23 Feb 2016
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