1983 North American Conference on British Studies Prizes

The North American Conference on British Studies is pleased to announce the winners of its three prizes:

The John Ben Snow Foundation Prize of $750 went in 1983 to Robert O. Collins, for Shadow in the Grass: Britain in the Southern Sudan, 1918-1956. The prize is awarded annually to a North American author for the best book in history and the social sciences in the field of British studies. Books in the social sciences must be strongly oriented toward contributing to an understand­ing of the development or character of British civilization in one or more of its aspects. The book may be published anywhere in the world.

The winner of the Walter D. Love Prize in 1983 was Professor Gary DeK­rey, for “Political Radicalism in London after the Glorious Revolution,” the Journal of Modern History, Vol. 55, December 1983. This prize of $150 is awarded to the author of the best journal article, or published paper of similar length and scope, in any field of British history from the Anglo-Saxon conquest to the present, including the history of the Empire and the Commonwealth. The prize article or paper should exhibit a humane and compassionate under­standing of the subject, imagination, lit­erary grace, and  scrupulous scholar­ship, and should make a significant con­tribution to its field of study. Chapters from longer works are not eligible, but papers printed in Festschriften or printed in a book of conference papers are eligible.

The winner of the British Council Prize in the Humanities in 1983 was Professor Barbara Shapiro, for Probabil­ity and Certainty in Seventeenth Century England: A Study of the Relationships Be­tween Natural Science, Religion, History, Law, and Literature. The prize of $750 (supported by a grant from the British Council) is awarded annually for the best book published anywhere by a North American scholar in any aspect of British studies within the following humanistic disciplines: literary history, lit­erary criticism, history of art and archi­tecture, history of music, history of reli­gion and philosophy, history of ideas, and intellectual history.