Royal Historical Society First Book Prize, 2025 – Shortlisted Titles | Historical Transactions
I am extremely proud and humbled to have my book on the Capital Market of Manila shorlisted for the First Book Prize of the @royalhistsoc.org among so many interesting titles. Just the mention feels like an incredible validation of all those years of PhD work with my mentors.
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Image of the eight titles shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society's First Book Prize for early career historians, 2025.
Royal Justice and the Making of the Tudor Commonwealth, 1485-1547, by Laura Flannigan (Cambridge University Press)
Intimate Subjects: Touch and Tangibility in Britain’s Cerebral Age, by Simeon Koole (University of Chicago Press)
Female Servants in Early Modern England, by Charmian Mansell (British Academy / Oxford University Press)
The Capital Market of Manila and the Pacific Trade, 1668-1838: Institutions and Trade during the First Globalization, by Juan Jose Rivas Moreno (Palgrave MacMillan)
Segregated Species: Pests, Knowledge, and Boundaries in South Africa, 1910–1948, by Jules Skotnes-Brown (Johns Hopkins University Press)
The Quislings. The Trials of Norwegian Wartime Collaborators, 1941–1964, by Anika Seemann (Cambridge University Press)
Pistols in St Paul’s: Science, Music, and Architecture in the Twentieth Century, by Fiona Smyth (Manchester University Press)
Desire and Disunity: Christian Communities and Sexual Norms in the Late Antique West, by Ulriika Vihervalli (Liverpool University Press)
The shortlist for the Society's 2025 First Book Prize for early career historians is now available bit.ly/4kkm4lW
Eight titles have been selected, following an open call for submissions of books published in 2024. Two winners of the 2025 prize will be announced in July.
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thank you for the warm welcome Lewis!
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