The Transport History Research Trust, based in York, England, will be
financially supporting a new prize to be awarded by the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T2M). Subject to agreement by the T2M Executive Council, the award, to be called
the Barker and Robbins Prize, will be given to the best paper delivered
at the T2M meeting by a recent entry to the profession. The Trust's
commitment is for GBP150 annually, initially for four years.
Andrew Scott, Director of the Trust, said: 'I'm really pleased that the
Trust is able to support the Association and scholars in this way. T2M
is rapidly becoming central to the reinvigoration of the discipline of
transport history around the world, and thus chimes perfectly with the
Trust's mission to encourage research in the field.'
The Prize is named after the late Theo Barker and the late Michael
Robbins, perhaps best known for their jointly authored two-volume
history of transport in London.
The Trust also financially supports the annual John Scholes Essay Prize, administered jointly by T2M and the Journal of Transport History.
T2M: www.t2m.org
Scholes Prize: www.york.ac.uk/inst/irs
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