Awards & Prizes
HES (UK) Research Fellowship Award, 2008-09
The History of Education Society (UK) invited applications for a Research Fellowship to be held in 2008-09. The value of the Research Fellowship is £5,000. The purpose of the Research Fellowship is to support high quality research in the field of history of education. The Research Fellowship is expected to result in published work based on the research funded by the Fellowship and it is an expectation that a report on the research will be submitted for publication to the History of Education Researcher. The Research Fellowship may be held individually or jointly by one or more researchers and is open to new and established researchers at any stage of their career.
The Society is pleased to announce that the inaugural Fellowship is awarded to John Harte for a project entitled 'Counterpoint: music education in Palestine, c. 1900-1948'.
HES (UK) Anne Bloomfield Book Prize
Initiated in 1989, and, since 2007 re-named the Anne Bloomfield Book Prize, in memory of Anne's chairing of the 2003 and 2007 panels, this triennial prize will be awarded in 2010 for books published in the years 2007-9. The most recent prizewinner for 2004-2006 was Rebecca Rogers From the Salon to the Schoolroom: Educating Bourgeois Girls in Nineteenth-Century France (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press), and details of all past prizewinners can be found below.
Eligible for nomination are single authored books on any aspect of the field published in English anywhere in the world. Nominations of individual books for the 2007-2009 are invited (author, title, publisher, date), and should be forwarded to the chair of the current panel: Peter Cunningham (pjc36@cam.ac.uk). Deadline for nominations: 31 January 2010.
Past winners
1986-1988: Margaret Bryant, The London Experience of Secondary Education (London: Athlone, 1986)
1989-1991: David Vincent, Literacy and Popular Culture: England 1750-1914 (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1989)
1992-1994: R.J.W.Selleck, James Kay-Shuttleworth: Journey of an Outsider (Ilford: Woburn Press, 1994)
1995-1997: Kathryn Castle, Britannia’s Children: Reading Colonialism through children’s books and magazines (Manchester : Manchester University Press, 1996)
1998-2000: Jane Martin, Women and the Politics of Schooling in Victorian and Edwardian England (Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1999)
2001-2003 Harold Silver, Higher Education and Opinion Making in Twentieth Century England (London: Woburn Press, 2003)
