The Morris D. Forkosch Prize is offered annually in recognition of the best book in English in the field of British, British imperial, or British Commonwealth history. It replaces the Robert Livingston Schuyler Prize covering the same fields. Submission of books relating to the shared common law heritage of the English-speaking world are particularly encouraged in memory of the late Professor Forkosch's contributions to the field of legal studies and legal history.

2023
Steven King, Paul Carter, Natalie Carter, Peter Jones, and Carol Beardmore, In Their Own Write: Contesting the New Poor Law, 1834–1900 (McGill-Queen’s Univ. Press)

2022
Paul R. Deslandes, The Culture of Male Beauty in Britain: From the First Photographs to David Beckham (Univ. of Chicago Press)

2021
Jeffrey R. Collins, In the Shadow of Leviathan: John Locke and the Politics of Conscience (Cambridge Univ. Press)

2020
Tawny Paul, The Poverty of Disaster: Debt and Insecurity in 18th-Century Britain (Cambridge Univ. Press)

2019
Robert Saunders, Yes to Europe! The 1975 Referendum and Seventies Britain (Cambridge Univ. Press)

2018
Paul Ocobock, An Uncertain Age: The Politics of Manhood in Kenya (Ohio Univ. Press)

2017
Laura Stewart, Rethinking the Scottish Revolution: Covenanted Scotland, 1637-51 (Oxford Univ. Press)

2016
Roy Foster, Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890-1923 (W.W. Norton & Co.)

2015
Gregory O'Malley, Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807 (Univ. of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Inst. of Early American History and Culture)

2014
Deborah Cohen, Family Secrets: Shame and Privacy in Modern Britain (Oxford Univ. Press)

2013
Jordanna Bailkin, The Afterlife of Empire (Univ. of California Press)

2012
Geoffrey Field, Blood, Sweat and Toil: Remaking the British Working Class, 1939-45 (Oxford Univ. Press)

2011
Philip Stern, The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundation of the British Empire in India (Oxford Univ. Press)

2010
Steven Pincus, 1688: The First Modern Revolution (Yale Univ. Press)

2009
Christopher Otter, The Victorian Eye: A Political History of Light and Vision in Britain, 1800-1910 (Univ. of Chicago Press)

2008
Barbara Donagan, War in England 1642-49 (Oxford Univ. Press)

2007
Deborah Cohen, Household Gods: The British and Their Possessions (Yale Univ. Press)

2006
Christopher Brown, Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism (Univ. of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Inst. of Early American History and Culture)

2005
Bernard Porter, The Absent-Minded Imperialists: Empire, Society, and Culture in Britain (Oxford Univ. Press)

2004
Robert Bickers, Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai, (Columbia Univ. Press)

2003
Ethan Shagan, Popular Politics and the English Reformation, (Cambridge Univ. Press)

2002
Catherine Hall, Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination, 1830-67 (Univ. of Chicago Press)

2001
Richard Drayton, Nature's Government: Science, Imperial Britain, and the 'Improvement' of the World (Yale Univ. Press)

2000
Alexandra Walsham, Providence in Early Modern England (Oxford Univ. Press)

1999
Kathleen Paul, Whitewashing Britain: Race and Citizenship in the Postwar Era (Cornell Univ. Press)

1997
Margaret Hunt, The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780 (Univ. of California Press)

1995
Peter Cain and Antony Hopkins, British Imperialism, 2 vols. (Longman)

1993
Robert Brenner, Merchants and Revolution: Commercial Change, Political Conflict, and London's Overseas Traders, 1550-1653 (Princeton Univ. Press)