Ellen McArthur Prize Recipients 1933–2021

Prize for the best PhD dissertation in Economic History             

2022

Owen Thomas WestlandAgriculture and industry in the process of economic growth and inequality in Senegal, c.1848-1979

2021

Rosa Hodgkin, Public attitudes to taxation, c.1945-1992

Sabine Schneider, Imperial Germany and the Politics of the International Gold Standard, 1834-1879 *

*In 2021 an additional prize was awarded for this dissertation which, owing to an administrative mistake, had not been considered for a prize when it was examined a few years previously.

2020

Emiliano Barrios Travieso, Resources, environment, and rural development in Uruguay, 1779-1913 

 

Prize for the best MPhil dissertation in Economic History

This prize was first awarded in 2017

2022

Alexander MarshallCompetition versus rationalisation: Industrial Policy and the Monopolies Commission, 1964-70

2021     

Yassar Al-Sharaf, The Federal Reserve and the Monetary Aggregates in the 1970s

Jintong Yu, ‘Forty Years of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway: Profitability, Debt and Demographic Impact’

2020      

Zijing Shen, The Occupational Structure of Dongguan in the Pearl River Delta 1949-2010: A Reconstruction from the High School Survey

Ziming Zhu, Occupational Mobility of Irish Migrants in England, 1851-1911

 

Prize for the best BA dissertation in Economic History

This prize was first awarded in 2018

2022

Edward StoppardCoalmining and infant mortality in the parish of Shirebrook, 1891-1913 

2021      

Natasha May, Investment and the Nazi economic recovery

Fiona Mitchell, Women's Employment in Northern England 1767-1851

2020

Emma Taylor, Spatial autocorrelation and its impact on the validity of persistence studies

Prize for the best PhD dissertation in Economic History             

Aditya Balasubramanian, Free economy and opposition politics in India, c.1940-70 (Awarded 2019)

Walter Jansson, The finance-growth nexus in Britain, 1850-1913(Awarded 2018)

Craig McMahon, The regulation and development of the British moneylending andbpawnbroking markets, 1870-2016(Awarded 2018)

Sebastiaan Keibek, The male occupational structure of England and Wales 1600-1850. (Awarded 2017)

Anjali Bhardwaj-Datta, Rebuilding lives and redefining spaces: women in post-colonial Delhi, 1945-1980 (awarded 2016).

Xuesheng You, Women’s employment in England and Wales, 1851-1911 (awarded 2016).

Adrian Leonard, The origins and development of London Marine Insurance, 1547-1824 (awarded 2015).

Jagjeet Lally, Indo-Central Asian trade c1600-1900 (awarded 2015).

Sean Bottomley, The British patent system during the Industrial Revolution, 1700-1852 (awarded 2014; book published CUP 2014)).

Jocelyn Betts, The business enterprise in mid-Victorian social thought (awarded 2013).

Stephen Thompson, Census taking, political economy and state formation in Britain c1790-1840 (awarded 2011).

Sarah Louise Walters, Fertility, morality and marriage in Northwest Tanzania 1920-1970: a demographic study using parish registers (awarded 2010).

 

Prize for the best MPhil dissertation in Economic History

This prize was first awarded in 2017

2019 

Udayan Mukherjee, Transparency and constraint in New Zealand’s macroeconomic reforms,1984-1994

2018      

Fiona Garrahan, How did British Savings Bank develop between 1850 and 1870

Auriane Terki-Mignot, Patterns of female employment in the Pays de Caux and the Perche, 1792-1901

2017      

Laura Channing, Colonial taxation policy and the introduction of direct taxation in Sierra Leone, 1896-1914

Beth Kitson, The working lives of Irish women in late nineteenth-century England

 

Prize for the best BA dissertation in Economic History

This prize was first awarded in 2018

2019      

Martha Gartside-Mitchell, Sex-work, surveillance and everyday life in New York City, c.1916-1930

2018     

Joseph Hill, Domesday Book as evidence for sheep farming in later eleventh-century Essex

Blaise Sadler, Derivatives, secondary markets and credible commitment in the City of London, 1688-1734

 

 

 

 

 

J Laite, Common Prostitutes and Ordinary Citizens: Commercial Sex in London, 1885-1960 (awarded 2008; Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) .

C Beauchamp, Invented by Law: Alexander Graham Bell and the Patent That Changed America (awarded 2007; Harvard University Press, 2015).

Mark Roodhouse, Black Market Britain (awarded 2004; OUP 2013).

L.K Lahiri Choudhury, A Social and Political History of the Telegraph in the Indian Empire, circa 1850-1920 (awarded 2004; Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) .

Felicitas Becker, A social history of southeastern Tanzania c1900-1950 (awarded 2002; unpublished).

J Davis, Perceptions and reality of merchants, trade regulation and commercialisation: case studies of medieval Suffolk, 1200-1500 (awarded 2002; unpublished).

David Stone, The management of resources on the demesne farm of Wisbech Barton, 1314-1430 (awarded 1999; CUP 1998).

T.J Lockley, Lines in the Sand: Race and Class in Lowcountry Georgia, 1750-1860 (awarded 1996; University of Georgia Press, 2001).

A.L. Erickson, Women and property in early modern England (awarded 1993; Routledge, 1993).

Steven Epstein, An island for itself: Economic development and social change in late medieval Sicily (awarded 1992; CUP 2003).

Ina Maria Zweininger-Bargielowska, Industrial relationships and nationalisation in the South Wales coalmining industry (awarded 1990; unpublished).

Simon Szreter, The decline of marital fertility in England and Wales c. 1870-1914 (awarded 1985; CUP, 1996).

M.J Stephenson, Wool yields in medieval England (awarded 1984; Economic History Review, Volume 41, issue 3, August 1988, Pages 368–391). 

S. Prakash, The Impact of the Market on the Evolution of Agrarian Economy in (British) Gujarat 1850-1940 (awarded 1983; unpublished).

H. James, The Reichsbank and Public Finance in Germany 1924-1933. A Study of the Politics of Economics during the Great Depression (awarded 1983; Frankfurt am Maim, 1985).

J.K. Fedorowicz, England’s Baltic trade in the early 17th century (awarded 1977; Cambridge Studies in Economic History, 1980).

Susan Howson, Domestic monetary management in Britain, 1919-38 (awarded 1975; CUP 1975).

Edmund King, Peterborough Abbey 1086-1310 (awarded 1973; CSEH, with aid of E. M. Fund, 1973).

Heinz Kent, War and trade in the northern seas: Anglo-Scandinavian economic relation in the mid-18th century (awarded 1973; CSEH, with aid of E. M. Fund, 1973).

J.Z. Titow, Winchester yields: A study in mediaeval agricultural productivity (awarded 1970; CSEH, with aid of E.M. Fund, 1971).

Michael Drake, Population and society in Norway 1735-1865 (awarded 1967; CSEH, with aid of E. M. Fund, 1969).

David Grigg, The agricultural revolution in south Lincolnshire (awarded 1966; CSEH, with aid of E. M. Fund, 1966).

H.E. Hallam, Settlement and society (awarded 1965; CSEH, with aid of E. M. Fund, 1965).

L. Jayawardena, The supply of Sinhalese labour to Ceylon plantations (awarded 1963; unpublished).

Dharma Kumar, Land and caste in south India: agricultural labour in Madras presidency in the 19th century (awarded 1962; CSEH 1965).

E.A. Wrigley, Industrial growth and population change (awarded 1957; CSEH, with aid of E. M. Fund, 1961).

W.G. Rimmer, Marshalls of Leeds, flax-spinners 1788-1886 (awarded 1957; CSEH, with aid of E. M. Fund, 1960).

Ian W.  Macpherson, British investment in Indian Guaranteed Railways, 1845-1875 (awarded 1956; unpublished).

G.S.L. Tucker, Progress and profit in British economic thought 1650-1850 (awarded 1955; CSEH, with aid of E. M. Fund, 1960).

B.E. Supple, Commercial crisis and change in England 1600-1642 (awarded 1959; CSEH, with aid of E. M. Fund, 1959).

G.A. Holmes, The estates of the higher nobility in 14th-century England (awarded 1957; CSEH, with aid of E. M. Fund, 1957).

Harold Wright, Free trade and protection in the Netherlands 1816-30 (awarded 1955; CSEH, with aid of E. M. Fund, 1955).

Andre J. Bourde, The influence on England of French agronomes 1750-89 (awarded 1953; CSEH, with aid of E. M. Fund, 1953).

Michael Greenberg, British trade and the opening of China 1800-42 (awarded 1951; CSEH, with aid of E. M. Fund, 1951).

E. Victor Morgan, The theory and practice of central banking 1797-1913 (awarded 1943; CSEH, with aid of E. M. Fund, 1943).

R.A.L. Smith, Canterbury Cathedral priory (awarded 1943; CSEH, with aid of E. M. Fund, 1943).

Charles H. Wilson, Anglo-Dutch commerce and finance in the eighteenth century (awarded 1941; CSEH, with aid of E. M. Fund, 1941).

H.C. Darby, The medieval Fenland (awarded 1940; CSEH, with aid of E. M. Fund, 1940; reprinted 1970).

W.O. Henderson, The Zollverein (awarded 1939; CSEH, with aid of E. M. Fund, 1939).

Arthur Hope-Jones, Income taxes in the Napoleonic wars (awarded 1939; CSEH, with aid of E. M. Fund, 1939).

E.E. Rich, The ordinance book of the Merchants of the Staple (awarded 1937; CSEH, with aid of E. M. Fund, 1937).

Ethel Mary Hampson, The treatment of poverty in Cambridgeshire 1597-1834 (awarded 1934; CSEH, with aid of E. M. Fund, 1934).

Frances M. Page, The estates of Crowland Abbey (awarded 1934; CSEH, with aid of E. M. Fund, 1934).

H.M. Robertson, Aspects of the rise of economic individualism (awarded 1933; CSEH, with aid of E. M Fund, 1933).