Take a look at our recent and previous prize winning books and learn more about the awards below.
The ideal river – Winner of the 2024 ISA Harold and Margaret Sprout Award
Expatriate – Winner of the 2024 British Sociological Association Philip Abrams Memorial Book Prize
Carbon colonialism – Winner of the 2024 AAP PROSE Award for Economics
The Island Book of Records Volume I: 1959-68 – Nominated for the 2024 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research
The Value of a Whale – Longlisted for the 2023 Bread and Roses Award
Presence – Winner of the British Psychological Society 2023 Book Award for Popular Science
African football migration – North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS) Outstanding Book Award 2023 (Honourable Mention)
The violence of colonial photography – Shortlisted for the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2023
African football migration – Shortlisted for the British Society of Sports History’s Lord Aberdare Literary Prize 2023
Worrier state – Shortlisted for MeCCSA Monograph of the Year 2023
The ideal river – Winner of the BISA 2023 L.H.M. Ling Outstanding First Book Prize
The ideal river – 2023 Sussex International Theory Book Prize (Honourable Mention)
Africa 2.0 – Second runner up in the BCA African Business Book of the Year
Anti-racist scholar-activism – Winner of the 2023 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award
Bankruptcy, bubbles and bailouts – One of the FT‘s Best Books of 2022: Economics (chosen by Martin Wolf)
De-centering queer theory – Winner of the ALGCR Prize for Cultural and Literary Theory 2021
In and out of Bloomsbury – Longlisted for the William M.B. Berger British Art History Prize 2022
The Pan-African Pantheon – Winner of the 2022 ASR Prize for Best Africa-focused Anthology or Edited Collection
Practising shame – 34th Modern Language Association 2022 Prize for Independent Scholars (Honourable mention)
Crafting identities – Shortlisted for the 2022 Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion in Architectural History
Dying for the nation – Winner of the Social History Society Book Prize 2022
Personalised cancer medicine – Shortlisted for the Foundation for the 2022 Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize
Proscribing peace – Winner of the BISA 2022 L.H.M. Ling Outstanding First Book Prize
Capitalising on constraint – Shortlisted for the UACES Best Book Prize 2022
The shifting border – Shortlisted for the 2022 C.B. Macpherson Prize
The fringes of citizenship – ASN Rothschild Book Prize (Honorable Mention)
Painting Dublin – ACIS Michael J Durkan Prize for Books on Language and Culture (Honorable Mention)
Transplantation Gothic – Longlisted for the Allan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize
Bog bodies – Winner of Book of the Year 2022 at the Current Archaeology Awards
Germany’s Russia problem – One of the TLS’s Books of the year 2021 (chosen by Rachel Polonsky)
Imperial nostalgia – One of BBC History Magazine’s Books of the Year 2021 and The Guardian‘s Best Books of 2021 (chosen by Sathnam Sanghera)
The War on the Uyghurs – One of Foreign Affairs’ Best Books of 2021 and one of the Top 12 most-read new reviews on LSE Review of Books in 2021
Women art workers and the Arts and Crafts movement – Winner of the Historians of British Art Award for a single-authored book with a subject between 1800-1960
Sonic ethnography – Winner of the 2021 John Collier Jr. Award for Still Photography
Edmund Spenser and the romance of space – Winner of the of the 2020 University English Book Prize
Distant sisters – Winner of the Mander Jones Award from the Australian Society of Archivists (Best publication that uses features or interprets Australian archives, written or edited by a person in their own right)
Women art workers and the Arts and Crafts movement – Winner of the Women’s History Network Book Prize 2021
Britain’s ‘brown babies’ – Winner of the 2021 Social History Society Book Prize
Empires of light – Finalist for the Historians of British Art Book Prize 2021 (Exemplary Scholarship after 1800)
Victorian touring actresses – Shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize 2021
Higher Education in a Globalizing World – HESIG Best Book Award, honourable mention
Deporting Black Britons – BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize 2021
Memory and the future of Europe – Shortlisted for the UACES Best Book Prize 2021
Bordering Britain – SLSA 2021 Theory & History prize
Dramas at Westminster – WJM Mackenzie Book Prize, PSA
The Looking Machine – CHOICE’S Outstanding Books of 2020
Unfinished Business – runner up, WJM Mackenzie Prize, PSA
Transplantation Gothic – Shortlisted for the 2020 British Society for Literature and Science book award
Distant sisters – Winner of the inaugural Donna Coates Book Prize 2021
Tattoos in crime and detective narratives – Winner of the International Crime Fiction Association Book Prize for non-fiction books
Conservative Revolutionary – Winner of The Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2020
Women’s medicine – Winner of the 2020 Henry-E.-Sigerist-Prize for the History of Medicine and Science
Photographic Subjects – Co-winner of the Royal Studies Journal Book Prize for 2020
Photographic Subjects – Winner of the inaugural 2020 Asian Studies Association of Australia mid-career book prize
Writing the Welsh borderlands in Anglo-Saxon England – Winner of the 2020 SEMA award for best first book
Ideal homes, 1918-39 – Winner of the 2020 Historians of British Art Book Award for Exemplary Scholarship on the Period after 1800
Landscape of Words – Winner of the 2019 Murphy First Book Prize from the American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS)
Writing the Welsh borderlands in Anglo-Saxon England – Winner of the 2019 International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England’s Best Book
From Partition to Brexit – Winner of the Political Studies Association of Ireland’s 2019 Brian Farrell book prize
Unlimited action – Longlisted for the Historians of British Art Book Award for Exemplary Scholarship on the Period after 1800
Leonora Carrington and the international avant-garde – Longlisted for the Historians of British Art Book Award for Exemplary Scholarship on the Period after 1800
Building reputations – Winner of the Alice Davis Hitchcock medallion for 2019
Unearthing childhood – Winner of the 2019 Archaeology & Ancient History PROSE award from the Association of American Publishers (AAP)
Stacking the coffins – Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles Award
The gestures of participatory art – Winner of the 2019 ASCA Book Award
Transatlantic traumas – Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles Award
Performing women – Winner of the David Bevington Award 2019
Children born of war in the twentieth century – Runner up in the 2019 Social History Book Prize
The gothic novel in Ireland, c. 1760–1829 – Winner of the Rhodes Prize for Literature and Language 2019
The synthetic proposition – Winner of the 31st annual Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art
From Partition to Brexit – Winner of the PSAI Book of the Year for 2018
Environment, labour, and capitalism at sea – Winner of the Society for the Anthropology of Work Book Prize 2018
Women poets of the English Civil War – Winner of the 2018 Society for the Study of Early Modern Women Award for Best Teaching Edition
Polysituatedness – Winner of the 2018 Niall Lucy Award
Tea and empire – Shortlisted for the Saltire Society Research Book of the Year Award 2018
Noble society – Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2018
Ideal homes, 1918-39 – Shortlisted for the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion 2018
Dangerous bodies – Winner of the Alan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize in 2017
The extended self – CICA Bruno Zevi Book Award 2017
From empire to exile – RHS Gladstone Prize
Loud and proud – BBC Radio 4’s Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography 2017
Ephemeral city – 2017 Gladys Krieble Delmas Book Prize for the best book in Venetian Renaissance history
Spenser and Virgil – The Isabel MacCaffrey Award 2017
Shakespeare’s storms – 2016 Shakespeare’s Globe Book Award
Our fighting sisters – Women’s History Network Book Prize 2016
Health, medicine and the sea – Society for the History of Navy Medicine Book Prize 2016
Britain and the formation of the Gulf States – Japan Consortium for Area Studies Award (Toryu-sho category) 2016
Between earth and heaven – Southeastern Medieval Association Award for Best First Book 2016
Training minds for the war of ideas – PSA Group Prize