Longman–History Today Awards
The Longman–History Today Awards is the name of an annual awards ceremony, run by Longman and History Today magazine, in which prizes are presented in various categories "to promote the study, publication and accessibility of history to a wide audience." The awards, given in memory of one of the founding editors of History Today, Sir Peter Quennell, are announced at a gala event in London each January.
The award categories are:
- The Trustees Award: given to a person or organisation that has done most to promote history over the last year or years.
- Book of the Year: given for an author’s first or second book.
- Picture Researcher of the Year: given to a researcher who has done outstanding work to enhance a text with the creative, imaginative and wide-ranging selection of appropriate images.
- Undergraduate Dissertation of the Year: for the best dissertation presented by a final-year undergraduate at a British university.
Past winners
2013
| Prize | Winner | Runner-up | Highly commended | - |
| The Trustees Award | Pevsner Architectural Guides, published by Yale University Press. | - | ||
| Book of the Year Award | Memories of Empire. Vol. I The White Man’s World by Bill Schwarz | - | ||
| Historical Picture Researcher of the Year | Pauline Hubner | |||
| Undergraduate Dissertation Prize | Frederick Smith for Discerning Cheese from Chalke: Louvainist Propaganda and Recusant Identity in 1560s England |
2012
| Prize | Winner | Runner-up | Highly commended | - |
| The Trustees Award | Professor Gordon Campbell. | - | ||
| Book of the Year Award | Evening’s Empire: A History of the Night in Early Modern Europe by Craig Koslofsky | - | ||
| Historical Picture Researcher of the Year | Caroline Hotblack and Cecilia Mackay | |||
| Undergraduate Dissertation Prize | Richard Lowe-Lauri for The Decline of the Stamford Bull-Running c. 1788-1840 |
2010
| Prize | Winner | Runner-up | Highly commended |
| The Trustees Award | Professor Tim Hitchcock and Professor Robert Shoemaker for and . | ||
| Book of the Year Award | Demobbed: Coming Home After the Second World War by Alan Allport | Pashas: Traders and Travellers in the Islamic World by James Mather |
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| Historical Picture Researcher of the Year | Julie McMahon | Steve Behan | |
| Undergraduate Dissertation Prize | Alexander Baggallay for Myths of Mau Mau Expanded: The Role of Rehabilitation in Detention Camps During the State of Emergency in Kenya, 1954-1960 | David Kenrick for Identity and the Politics of Survival: White Rhodesia, 1965-1980 |