The Gladstone Book Prize is an annual prize awarded by the

Royal Historical Society The Royal Historical Society (RHS), founded in 1868, is a learned society of the United Kingdom which advances scholarly studies of history. Origins The society was founded and received its royal charter in 1868. Until 1872 it was known as the H ...

to debut authors for a history book published in

Britain Britain most often refers to: * Great Britain, a large island comprising the countries of England, Scotland and Wales * The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, a sovereign state in Europe comprising Great Britain and the north-eas ...

on any topic which is not primarily British history. The prize is named in honour of

William Ewart Gladstone William Ewart Gladstone ( ; 29 December 1809 – 19 May 1898) was a British politican, starting as Conservative MP for Newark and later becoming the leader of the Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party. In a career lasting over 60 years, he ...

and was made possible by a grant by the Gladstone Memorial Trust. It was first awarded in 1998, the centenary of Gladstone's death.

List of winners

Source: *1997 – Stuart Clark, ''Thinking With Demons: The Idea of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe'' *1998 – Patrick Major, ''The Death of the KPD: Communism and Anti-Communism in West Germany, 1945-1956'' *1999 –

Frances Stonor Saunders Frances Hélène Jeanne Stonor Saunders FRSL (born 14 April 1966) is a British journalist and historian. Early life Frances Stonor Saunders is the daughter of Julia Camoys Stonor and Donald Robin Slomnicki Saunders. Her father, who died in 1997, ...

, '' Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War'', *2000 –

Matthew Innes Matthew Innes is a British academic and university administrator who is Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London. Academic career Innes grew up in West Yorkshire and by "sheer brute luck" earned a place t ...

, ''State and Society in the Middle Ages: The Middle Rhine Valley, 400-1000'' *2001 – Nora Berend, ''At the Gate of Christendom: Jews, Muslims and 'Pagans' in Medieval Hungary, c.1000-c.1300'' *2002 **

David Hopkin David Isaac Hopkin (born 21 August 1970) is a Scottish professional football coach and former player who was most recently the manager of Ayr United. As a player he was a midfielder from 1989 until 2003, notably in the English Premier League ...

, ''Soldier and Peasant in French Popular Culture, 1766-1870'' ** Guy Rowlands, ''The Dynastic State and the Army Under Louis XIV'' *2003 **Norbert Peabody, ''Hindu Kingship and Polity in Precolonial India'' ** Michael Rowe, ''From Reich to State: the Rhineland in the Revolutionary Age, 1780-1830'' *2004 –

Nikolaus Wachsmann Nikolaus Daniel Wachsmann (born 1971) is a professor of modern European history in the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck College, University of London. Academic career Wachsmann was born in Munich. He graduated from the ...

, ''Hitler’s Prisons: Legal Terror in Nazi Germany'' *2005 – Robert Foley, ''German Strategy and the Path to Verdun: Erich von Falkenhayn and the Development of Attrition, 1870-1850'' *2006 – James E. Shaw, ''The Justice of Venice: Authorities and Liberties in the Urban Economy, 1550-1700'' *2007 – Yasmin Khan, ''The Great Partition: the Making of India and Pakistan'' *2008 – Dr Caroline Dodds Pennock, ''Bonds of Blood: Gender, Lifecycle and Sacrifice in Aztec Culture'' (Palgrave Macmillan: 2008) *2009 – Alice Rio, ''Legal Practice and the Written Word in the Early Middle Ages: Frankish Formulae, c.500-1000'' (Cambridge University Press: 2009) *2010 – Natalie A. Zacek, ''Settler Society in the English Leeward Islands, c. 1670-1776'' (Cambridge University Press: 2010) *2011 – Wendy Ugolini, ''Experiencing War as the ‘Enemy Other’: Italian Scottish Experience in World War II'', (Manchester University Press: 2011) *2012 – Joel Isaac, ''Working Knowledge: Making the Human Sciences from Parsons to Kuhn'', (Harvard University Press: 2012) *2013 – Sean A. Eddie, ''Freedom’s Price: Serfdom, Subjection, & Reform in Prussia, 1648-1848'' (Oxford University Press: 2013) *2015 **Andrew Arsan, ''Interlopers of Empire: The Lebanese Diaspora in Colonial French West Africa'' (Hurst, 2014) **Lucie Ryzova, ''The Age of the Efendiyya: Passages to Modernity in National-Colonial Egypt'' (Oxford University Press, 2014) *2016 – Emma Hunter, ''Political Thought and the Public Sphere in Tanzania'' (Cambridge University Press, 2015) *2017 – Claire Eldridge, ''From Empire to Exile: History and Memory Within the Pied-Noir and Harki Communities, 1962–2012'' (Manchester University Press, 2016) *2018 – Matthew S. Champion, ''The Fullness of Time: Temporalities of the Fifteenth-Century Low Countries'' (University of Chicago Press, 2017) *2019 – Duncan Hardy, ''Associative Political Culture in the Holy Roman Empire: Upper Germany, 1346-1521'' (Oxford University Press, 2018) *2020 – Caillan Davenport, ''A History of the Roman Equestrian Order'' (Cambridge University Press, 2019) *2021 – Tom Stammers, ''The Purchase of the Past: Collecting Culture in Post-Revolutionary Paris, c.1790-1890'' (Cambridge University Press, 2020). * 2023 - Jennifer Keating, ''On Arid Ground: Political Ecologies of Empire in Russian Central Asia'' (OUP, 2022)

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{{Reflist First book awards History awards British literary awards Awards established in 1998 1998 establishments in the United Kingdom Royal Historical Society

List of winners

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