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). Details of all past prizewinners appear below. 

Nominations of individual books for the 2007-2009 prize are invited from members of the Society and from publishers, and should be forwarded to the chair of the current panel:  Peter Cunningham (pjc36@cam.ac.uk)

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)

2004-2006 Rebecca Rogers From the Salon to the Schoolroom: Educating Bourgeois Girls in Nineteenth-Century France (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press)

HES (UK) Essay Prize

A national prize is awarded annually[1] for an original essay in the field of history of education. The essay, which may have been produced earlier as an assignment or conference paper, will be considered by a panel of judges appointed by the executive of the History of Education Society UK . A monetary prize is awarded of £100 and free attendance at the following History of Education Society annual conference (including travel in the UK to and from the conference), when the prize will be awarded. 

Past winners 

2005 Nicola Sheldon and Geert Thyssen (joint winners)

2006 Prize not awarded. 

2007 John Harte for his essay 'Contesting the Past in Mandate Palestine: History Teaching for Palestinian Arabs under British Rule, 1917-1948'.

2008 Prize not awarded

[1] The Society reserves the right not to award in any year if no submissions are deemed to reach an appropriate standard. They may also award more than one essay prize in a year in exceptional circumstances.