The North American Conference on British Studies wishes to report the following items:
Current officers of the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS) are C. Warren Hollister (University of California at Santa Barbara), President; Lois G. Schwoerer (George Washington University), Vice-President; Diane Willen (Georgia State University), Executive Secretary: Ronald Berger (State University of New York College at Oneonta), Associate Executive Secretary, and John F. Naylor (State University of New York at Buffalo), Treasurer. Dale Hoak (College of William and Mary) serves as Program Chair.
The NACBS awards three annual prizes for scholarly publications. Recipients of the 1985 prizes were announced at the joint meeting of the NACBS and Southern Conference on British Studies in Houston, November 14, 1985:
The Walter D. Love Prize in History ($150) is awarded each year for the best journal article by a North American scholar in any field of British or Empire Commonwealth history. The 1985 prize for an article published in 1984 was awarded to Lois G. Schwoerer for her essay “Seventeenth Century English Women Engraved in Stone?” published in Albion, 16 (Winter 1984). Honorable mention was given to Linda Calley’s article “The Apotheosis of George III: Loyalty, Royalty, and the British Nation” which appeared in Past and Present (February 1984).
The British Council Prize in the Humanities ($750) is supported by the British Council and is awarded each year by the NACBS for the best book published anywhere by a North American scholar in any aspect of British Studies within the following disciplines: literary history, literary criticism, history of art and architecture, history of religion and philosophy, the history of music, history of ideas, and intellectual history. The 1985 prize was awarded to V. A. Kolve for his book Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative (Stanford, 1984), Honorable mention went to Bernard Semmel, J. S. Mill and the Pursuit of Virtue (New Haven, 1984).
The John Ben Snow Foundation Prize in History and the Social Sciences ($750) is awarded annually to a North Ameri can author for the best book in history and the social sciences in the field of British Studies, The 1985 prize was awarded to John F. Naylor for his book A Man and an Institution: Sir Maurice Hankey, the Cabinet Secretariat and the Custody of Cabinet Secrecy (Cambridge, 1984). Honorable mention was given to Norma Laundau for her book Justices of the Peace 1679-1760 (Berkeley, 1984).
