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From: [log in to unmask] (Dave Postles)
Subject: John Nichols Prize in Local History
Once again, the Centre for English Local History on behalf of the
University of Leicester, invites submissions for the John Nichols Prize
in English and Welsh Local History, which is awarded annually. The
invitation for submissions follows below.
The John Nichols Prize
(Local History in England and Wales)
It is hoped that intending competitors for this annual prize will be
broadly sympathetic to the approaches of this Centre, or will be working
in some other way constructively to advance scholarship in the subject.
Essays on local or regional societies, cultures, and/or landscapes are
eligible for submission. The local society or theme studied may be
regional or rural or urban, but it should display an identifiable entity
of its own. The remit of the Centre covers both England and Wales, and
essays on either country are welcome. The Centre is especially concerned
to illuminate questions of general historical significance through the
intensive study of the particular. Whatever aspects or thematic
combinations of the subject the essay concentrates on, it is hoped that
it will show significant variations from the general picture in
textbooks. Entries throwing new light in some other way on an aspect of
national history, through the study of a locality or region, will also
be considered.
If you feel that your subject is relevant to these concerns, you are
invited to submit an essay on it. Compositions which have already been
published, or which have been awarded any other prize, are not eligible.
The value of the prize is £100. The University reserves the right to
make no award if no essay of sufficient merit is submitted. The
University also reserves the right, but does not bind itself, to publish
the winning essay in printed form.
Essays must be submitted on or before 31 December. They must be
typewritten, on one side of the paper only, with double spacing for the
text, and single or double spacing for the footnotes or endnotes (either
form of notes is acceptable). They must not exceed 20,000 words in
length, including notes. Communications, marked John Nichols Prize,
should be addressed to John Nichols Prize, Centre for English Local
History, University of Leicester, Marc Fitch House, 5 Salisbury Road,
Leicester, LE1 7QR. A stamped addressed envelope must accompany the
typescript for return.
You may be interested in the following:
English local history: the Leicester approach: a departmental
bibliography and history 1948-1998 compiled and edited by Margery
Tranter... [et al.] ; introduced by Charles Phythian-Adams (Leicester,
1999)
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