Outstanding Book in Economic History Prize

The Economic History Society awards a prize of £1,000, on a biennial basis, for an outstanding book in Economic and/or Social History.

The winner of the Outstanding Book Prize will be announced at the annual conference.

Eligibility

Nominations are normally restricted to books published by authors who are more than 10 years beyond the award of their PhD, or who have previously published a monograph and are therefore no longer eligible for the First Monograph Prize. Current Officers of the Society (President, Secretary and Treasurer) cannot be nominated. The authors of the nominated book do not need to be current members of the Society.

Only monographs published in English and published during 2025 and 2026 will be eligible for the 2027 prize.

Books published by 31 December 2026 will be eligible for consideration, however, the nomination must be made by the 30 September deadline and copies of the books must be reach the judges by 31 December 2026. The book’s date of publication, not the date of copyright, will define eligibility. If a book is a translation of a book previously published in another language, it will be eligible based on its date of publication in English.

Nomination Procedure

Nominations may be made by any member of the Economic History Society, including the author. To nominate a book:

1. The details of the book and a copy of the author’s full CV should be submitted via application form below
2. A physical copy of the book should be sent to each member of the judging Committee. Electronic editions of books can only be submitted if no print edition exists, and access should be provided to each member of the Committee directly. The books cannot be returned to the author.

Deadline – 30 September 2026

Books should please be mailed to:

Professor Emma Griffin 
C/O Professor David Milne,
School of History
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
University of East Anglia
Norwich, England
NR4 7TJ

Professor Paolo Di Martino
Scuola di Economia e Management
Corso Unione Sovietica, 218 Bis – 10134
Torino, Italy

Professor Jean-Laurent Rosenthal
228-77  H&SS
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
(if possible, dispatch copies to Professor Rosenthal from US warehouses)

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