Recent EHS Fellowship Award Holders
2012/13
Power Fellowship: Jennifer Aston (Birmingham)
Feckless fraudsters or feeble failures? Female bankruptcy in Victorian and Edwardian England
Postan Fellowship: Alex Brown (Durham)
Estate management and institutional constraints in rural economic development in the north of England, 1400-1640
Tawney Fellowship: James Bowen (Lancaster)
Contrasting commons: cottagers, common land and common right in pre-industrial England and Wales
Anniversary Fellowship: James Boyd (Cardiff)
The costs of German economic unification
2011/12
Power Fellowship: Justin Colson (RHUL)
Neighbourhoods, networks and trades: local society in London, c.1400-1540
Postan Fellowship: Katerina Galani (Oxford)
From Constantinople to the City of London: Greek merchant bankers, 1820-80
Tawney Fellowship: Carry van Lieshout (KCL)
The eighteenth-century water market: natural resources, market institutions and mediating distance
Anniversary Fellowship: Eric Golson (Oxford)
Dictatorship over food? The causes of the Spanish famine, 1939-59
EHS Fellowship: David Pretel (Cambridge)
Crossing empires: foreign patenting activities in the Spanish Caribbean plantation economy, 1850-1902
2010/11
Power Fellowship: Ceri-Anne Fidler (Cardiff)
Lascars, c.1850-1950: The lives and identities of Indian seafarers in Imperial Britain
Postan Fellowship: Niels van Manen (York)
The Climbing Boy Campaigns: new perspectives on governance, medicine and childhood in Britain, c.1770-1840
Tawney Fellowship: Siobhan Talbott (St Andrews) (Until December 2010)
'Every man lives by exchanging': The British commercial dynamic on the French Atlantic Coast, c.1603-1707
Tawney Fellowship: Mark Hailwood (Warwick) (From April 2011)
Alehouses and sociability in seventeenth-century England
Anniversary Fellowship: Alison Gilmour (Glasgow)
Examining the 'hard-boiled bunch': Work culture and industrial relations at the Linwood car plant, c.1963-81
2009/10
Power Fellowship: Rebecca Oakes (Winchester)
Mortality and life expectancy: Winchester College and New College, Oxford c. 1393 - c. 1540
Postan Fellowship: Alexandra Sapoznik (Cambridge)
English peasant agriculture in the fourteenth century
Tawney Fellowship: Koji Yamamoto (York)
The culture of projecting in seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England: distrust, innovations, and public service
Anniversary Fellowship: Amy Lloyd (Cambridge)
Popular perceptions of emigration in Britain
2008/9
Power Fellowship: Bronach Kane (York)
Memory and gender in the late medieval church courts of York
Postan Fellowship: Aashish Velkar (LSE)
Markets, standards and transactions: measurements in the nineteenth century British economy
Tawney Fellowship: Henry Meier (Birkbeck)
Smallpox in Stuart London: causes and effects of an emerging disease
Anniversary Fellowship: Stuart Sweeney (Oxford)
Indian railways in the period of high imperialism, 1875-1914: war, famine and gentlemanly capitalism
2007/8
Power Fellowship: Ayowa Afrifa Taylor (LSE)
An economic history of the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation, 1895-2004: land, labour, capital, enterprise
Postan Fellowship: Mark Smith (School of Slavonic and East European Studies)
Rubble to Communism: the urban housing programme in the Soviet Union, 1944-64
Tawney Fellowship: Jonathan Healey (Oxford)
Marginality and misfortune: poverty and social welfare in Lancashire, c.1630-1760
Anniversary Fellowship: Katie Barclay (Glasgow)
Marital relationships in Scotland, 1650-1850
2006/7
Power Fellowship: Gagan Sood (Paul Mellon Centre)
Eurasia and the transition to modernity: the framework of mercantile relations; a cross-cultural trade in the Arabian Sea region, c.1730-90
Postan Fellowship: Natalya Chernyshova (KCL)
Shopping with Brezhnev: Soviet urban consumer culture, 1964-85
Tawney Fellowship: Nicole Robertson (Nottingham)*
The impact of the co-operative movement on communities in the Midlands, 1914-60
*Monograph published 2010: The Cooperative Movement and Communities in Britain, 1914-60
2005/6
Power Fellowship: Matthew Stevens (Aberystwyth)
Race, gender and wealth in a medieval Welsh borough: access to capital, market participation and status in Ruthin, 1312-22
Postan Fellowship: Emma Jones (RHUL)
Abortion in England, 1861-1967
Tawney Fellowship: Miatta Fahnbulleh (LSE)
The elusive quest for industrialisation in Africa: a comparative study of Ghana and Kenya, c.1950-2000
2004/5
Power Fellowship: Philadelphia Ricketts (Liverpool)
A comparison of widows’ power, property and family strategies in Iceland and Yorkshire in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
Postan Fellowship: Mark Rothery (Exeter)
The social transformation of a traditional elite in modern England: the landed gentry of Devon, Lincolnshire and Hertfordshire c.1870-1939
Tawney Fellowship: Abigail Wills (Cambridge)
Making citizens: reforming the juvenile delinquent, England 1950-70
2003/4
Postan Fellowship: Tracy Denison (Cambridge)
The extent of commerce and the land market within Russian serfdom, a detailed case study
Power Fellowship: James Walker (LSE)
The decline of the British motor industry: product design, advertising and gender
Tawney Fellowship: Matteo Rizzo (SOAS)
Re-evaluation of the long term influence of the Ground Nuts Scheme in southern Tanzania
Anniversary Fellowship: Christopher Beauchamp (Cambridge)
The institutional and legal framework constituting the politics of the telephone industry in Britain and the US
2002/3
Power Fellowship: Julie Marfany (Cambridge)
Industrialisation and demographic change in Catalonia, 1680-1829
Postan Fellowship: Ben Dodds (Durham)
Using tithe evidence to consider shifts in agrarian output between the peasant and demesne sectors between the Tyne and Tees, 1350-1450
Tawney Fellowship: James Taylor (Kent, Canterbury)
‘Wealth makes worship’: attitudes to joint stock enterprise in British law, politics, and culture, c.1800-c.1870
Anniversary Fellowship: Sakis Gekas (Essex)
The merchant elite of the Ionian Islands under British rule, 1815-64
2001/2
Power Fellowship: Rosemary Elliot (Glasgow)
Smoking and social identity among women in the twentieth century
Postan Fellowship: Martin Rorke (Edinburgh)
Scottish overseas trade, 1275/86-1597
Tawney Fellowship: James Davis (Cambridge)
The perceptions and reality of traders and commercialisation in medieval Suffolk, 1350-1450
2000/1
Power Fellowship: Susan Wright (Sheffield Hallam)
Mass tourism as an individual experience: a history of package tourism, 1950-90
Postan Fellowship (split between 2 candidates):
(1) Ilaria Meliconi (Oxford)
From tools to machines and from workshop to factory: industrialisation in British scientific instruments, 1862-1900
(2) Mar Rubio (LSE)
The inclusion of resource depletion into measures of economic performance. Oil depletion in Mexico and Venezuela along the twentieth century
Tawney Fellowship: Jerome Destombes (LSE)
Inherited deprivation in a changing savanna. Poverty traps in north-eastern Ghana, c.1930-90
1999/2000
Power Fellowship: Helen Macnaughtan (LSE)
The female workforce in post-war Japan 1955-75: the case of the cotton textile industry
Postan Fellowship: Tanya Evans (Goldsmiths, London)
Unmarried motherhood in eighteenth century London
Tawney Fellowship: Mark Freeman (Glasgow)
The history of social investigation in Britain 1870-1914, with special reference to rural life
