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The Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology annual dissertation prize

The Council of the Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology offers an annual prize for the best dissertation submitted for an undergraduate and taught postgraduate diploma or degree concerned with the post-medieval archaeology of Britain, Europe, or their colonies, from 1500 to the present day. The aim of the prize is to encourage new research in the field of post-medieval archaeology in British and Irish universities. The prize is offered in memory of Leslie Matthews, one of the Society’s founder members.

The award is £250, free membership of the Society for one year, and a conference bursary for the year of the award. In addition, all nominated candidates receive free membership for one year, in recognition of their achievement in producing a high-quality dissertation in the field of post-medieval archaeology.

We invite submissions from UK and Irish University and College departments in September to nominate not more than one dissertation submitted in the previous academic year. Submissions from individual students are not accepted. For further information, please contact the prize co-ordinator:

Dr Chris King, School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, cnk4@leicester.ac.uk

   
  Current winner  

 

2007
Sanne Roberts

Made in Sheffield: the buildings of the crucible steel industry
Department of Archaeology,
University of York

Recent winners  
2005
Judith Stanwell

Framing the picturesque. A new approach to understanding the role of buildings in eighteenth-century designed landscapes
Department of Archaeology, University of York
2003
Carter Hudgins

Old World industries and New World hope: the industrial role of scrap copper at Jamestown
Department of History, Royal Holloway, University of London
2001
Martin Roe

An integrated study of the underground and surface archaeology of Cononley lead mine, North Yorkshire
School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester
1999
Jocelyn Davis

Expressions of identity in a Welsh churchyard: a survey of the graveyard at St Peter’s, Lampeter
Department of Archaeology, University of Lampeter

Before 2005 the prize was awarded every two years

 
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