T.S. Ashton Prize
The T.S. Ashton Prize, established with funds donated by the late Professor T.S. Ashton (1889-1968), will be awarded, at every other Annual Conference, to the author of the best article accepted for publication in the Economic History Review in the previous two calendar years, who satisfies one of the following conditions at time of submission:
- The author is within five years of receipt of her/his PhD.
OR
- The author normally has no previous publication in the field of economic and/or social history, or a closely related field.
The prize is currently £1,500.
Recent Winners:
- 2009 Jordi Domenech (University of York), 'Labour market adjustment a hundred years ago: the case of the Catalan textile industry, 1880-1913', Economic History Review, 61 (1) February 2008, pp.1-25. AND Nick Draper (University College London), 'The city of London and slavery: evidence from the first dock companies, 1795-1800', Economic History Review, 61 (2) May 2008, pp.432-466.
- 2007 Samantha Williams (University of Cambridge), 'Poor relief, labourers' households and living standards in rural England c.1770-1834: a Bedfordshire case study', Economic History Review, 58 (3) May 2005, pp. 485-519.
- 2005 Ben Dodds (University of Durham), 'Estimating arable output using Durham Priory tithe receipts, 1341-1450', Economic History Review, 57 (2) May 2004, pp.245-85.
- 2003 Byung-Yeon Kim (University of Essex), 'Causes of repressed inflation in the Soviet consumer market, 1965-1989', Economic History Review, 55 (1) February 2002, pp.105-27.
- 2001 Evan Jones (University of Bristol), 'Illicit business: accounting for smuggling in mid-sixteenth-century Bristol’, Economic History Review, 54 (1) February 2001, pp.17-38.
Previous winners since 1972
