Gladstone Prize

The Gladstone Prize is an annual prize awarded by the Royal Historical Society to debut authors for a history book published in Britain on any topic which is not primarily British history.^[1] The prize is named in honour of William Ewart Gladstone and was made possible by a grant by the Gladstone Memorial Trust. It was first awarded in 1998, the centenary of Gladstone’s death.

List of winners

• 1997 - Stuart Clark, Thinking with Demons: the idea of witchcraft in early modern Europe
• 1998 - Patrick Major, The Death of the KPD: Communism and Anti-Communism in West Germany, 1945-1956
• 1999 - Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, ISBN 1-86207-029-6
• 2000 - Matthew Innes, State and Society in the Middle Ages: The Middle Rhine Valley, 400-1000
• 2001 - Nora Berend, At the Gate of Christendom. Jews, Muslims and 'Pagans' in Medieval Hungary, c.1000-c.1300
• 2002 - Shared - David Hopkin, Soldier and Peasant in French Popular Culture, 1766-1870 and Guy Rowlands, The Dynastic State and the Army Under Louis XIV
• 2003 - Shared - Norbert Peabody, Hindu Kingship and Polity in Precolonial India and Michael Rowe, From Reich to State: the Rhineland in the Revolutionary Age, 1780-1830
• 2004 - Nikolaus Wachsmann, Hitler’s Prisons: Legal Terror in Nazi Germany
• 2005 - Robert Foley, German Strategy and the Path to Verdun: Erich von Falkenhayn and the Development of Attrition, 1870-1850
• 2006 - James E. Shaw, The Justice of Venice. Authorities and Liberties in the Urban Economy, 1550-1700 ^[2]
• 2007 - Yasmin Khan, The Great Partition: the Making of India and Pakistan
• 2008 - Dr Caroline Dodds Pennock, Bonds of Blood: Gender, Lifecycle and Sacrifice in Aztec Culture

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