Der Whitfield-Preis (engl. Whitfield Prize) war ein jährlich von der Royal Historical Society (RHS) verliehener Preis für das beste Buch zur britischen oder irischen Geschichte des Jahres. Es muss das erste Buch des Autors auf diesem Gebiet sein. Der Preis war (Stand 2015) mit 1000 Pfund dotiert und wurde seit 1976 verliehen.
Bis 2013 bezog sich das Jahr des Preises auf den jeweiligen Wettbewerbszeitraum, wenn auch der Preis erst im Folgejahr vergeben wurde. Seit 2015 wurde als Jahr des Preises das Vergabejahr angegeben.
Beginnend mit dem Jahr 2025 gibt die RHS die Trennung zwischen britisch/irischer (Whitfield-Preis) und nicht-britisch/irischer Geschichte (Gladstone-Preis) auf und vergibt nur noch einen First Book Prize mit jährlich zwei Preisträgern.
Preisträger 1977: K. D. Brown, John Burns 1978: Marie Axton, The Queen's Two Bodies: Drama and the Elizabethan Succession 1979: Patricia Crawford, Denzil Holles, 1598–1680: A study of his Political Career 1980: D. L. Rydz, The Parliamentary Agents: A History 1981: Scott M. Harrison, The Pilgrimage of Grace in the Lake Counties, 1536–7 1982: Norman L. Jones, Faith by Statute: Parliament and the Settlement of Religion, 1559 1983: Peter Clark, The English Alehouse: A social history, 1200–1830 1984: David Hempton, Methodism and Politics in British Society, 1750–1850 1985: K. D. M. Snell, Annals of the Labouring Poor 1986: Diarmaid MacCulloch, Suffolk and the Tudors: Politics and Religion in an English County, 1500–1600 1987: Kevin M. Sharpe, Criticism and Compliment: The politics of literature in the England of Charles I 1988: J. H. Davis, Reforming London, the London Government Problem, 1855–1900 1989: A. G. Rosser, Medieval Westminster, 1200–1540 1990: Duncan M. Tanner, Political change and the Labour party, 1900–1918 1991: Tessa Watt, Cheap Print and Popular Piety, 1550–1640 1992: Christine Carpenter, Locality and Polity: A Study of Warwickshire Landed Society, 1401 -1499 1993: Jeanette M. Neeson, Commoners: common right; enclosure and social change in England, 1700- 1820 1994: V. A. C. Gatrell, The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English people, 1770–1868 1995: Kathleen Wilson, The Sense of the People: Politics, Culture and Imperialism in England, 1715–1785 1996: Paul D. Griffiths, Youth and Authority Formative Experience in England, 1560–1640 1997: Christopher Tolley, Domestic Biography: the legacy of evangelicalism in four nineteenth-century families 1998: Amanda Vickery, The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England 1999: John Walter, Understanding Popular Violence in the English Revolution: The Colchester Plunderers 2000: Adam Fox, Oral and Literate Culture in England, 1500–1700 2001: John Goodall, God's House at Ewelme: Life, Devotion and Architecture in a Fifteenth Century Almshouse 2001: Frank Salmon, Building on Ruins: The Rediscovery of Rome and English Architecture 2002: Ethan H. Shagan, Popular Politics and the English Reformation 2003: Christine Peters, Patterns of Piety: Women, Gender and Religion in Late Medieval and Reformation England 2004: M. J. D. Roberts, Making English Morals: Voluntary Association and Moral reform in England, 1787–1886 2005: Matt Houlbrooke, Queer London 2006: Kate Fisher, Birth Control, Sex and Marriage in Britain, 1918–1960 2007: Stephen Baxter, The Earls of Mercia: Lordship and Power in Late Anglo-Saxon England Duncan Bell, The Idea of Greater Britain: Empire and the Future of World Order, 1860–1900 2008: Stephen M. Lee, George Canning and Liberal Toryism, 1801–1827 Frank Trentmann, Free Trade Nation: Commerce, Consumption and Civil Society in Modern Britain 2009: Nicholas Draper, The price of emancipation: slave-ownership, compensation and British society at the end of slavery 2010: Arnold Hunt, The Art of Hearing: English Preachers and their Audiences 1590-1640 2011: Jacqueline Elizabeth Rose, Godly Kingship in Restoration England: The Politics of The Royal Supremacy, 1660–1688 2012: Ben Griffin, The Politics of Gender in Victorian Britain. Masculinity, Political Culture and the Struggle for Women’s Rights 2013: Scott Sowerby, Making Toleration: The Repealers and The Glorious Revolution 2015: John Sabapathy, Officers and Accountability in Medieval England 1170–1300 2016: Aysha Pollnitz, Princely Education in Early Modern Britain 2017: William Cavert, The Smoke of London: Energy and Environment in the Early Modern City Alice Taylor, The Shape of the State in Medieval Scotland, 1124–1290 2018: Brian Hall, Communications and British Operations on the Western Front, 1914–1918 2019: Ryan Hanley, Beyond Slavery and Abolition: Black British Writing, c.1770–1830 2020: Niamh Gallagher, Ireland and the Great War: A Social and Political History 2021: Jackson Armstrong, England’s Northern Frontier: Conflict and Local Society in the Fifteenth-Century Scottish Marches 2022: Kristin D. Hussey, Imperial Bodies in London Empire, Mobility, and the Making of British Medicine, 1880–1914 2023: Síobhra Aiken, Spiritual Wounds. Trauma, Testimony & the Irish Civil War 2024: Sara Caputo, Foreign Jack Tars: The British Navy and Transnational Seafarers during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
Weblinks Prizes der Royal Historical Society (royalhistsoc.org) Recipients of the Royal Historical Society book prizes, 1977–2024 (royalhistsoc.org)
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