Manchester University Press author Katie Barclay, is the recipient of the 2012 Women’s History Network UK Book Prize for Love, Intimacy and Power: Marriage and Patriarchy in Scotland, 1650-1850 (Manchester University Press, 2011). The Women’s History Network (UK) Book Prize is awarded for an author’s first single-authored monograph which makes a significant contribution to women’s history or gender history and is written in an accessible style. The book must be written in English and be published the year prior to the award being made.

The panel of judges said

‘Congratulations to Katie for a book that the judges commend as an important and original study, intellectually ambitious, impressive in its confidence and maturity, sophisticated in its conceptual approach and written with clarity and conviction.’

The prize will be presented at the WHN conference in Cardiff on Saturday 8 September 2012.