After a very close-run competition, it was decided to award joint first prize to:
Anna Dorofeeva for ‘Miscellanies, Christian reform and early medieval encyclopaedism: a reconsideration of the pre-bestiary Physiologus manuscripts’
[Early Medieval Seminar]
and
Megan Webber for ‘Troubling Agency: Agency and Charity in Early Nineteenth-Century London’
[British History in the Long Eighteenth Century seminar]
The Runner-up was
Sam Drake for ‘Since the time of King Arthur: gentry identity and the commonalty of Cornwall c.1300-c.1420’
[Late Medieval seminar]
All three papers will be published in Historical Research in due course.