# Gladstone Book Prize

The Gladstone Book Prize is an annual prize awarded by the Royal Historical Society to debut authors for a history book published in Britain on any topic which is not primarily British history. The prize is named in honour of William Ewart Gladstone and was made possible by a grant by the Gladstone Memorial Trust. It was first awarded in 1998, the centenary of Gladstone's death.

## List of winners

Source:
* 1997 – Stuart Clark, Thinking With Demons: The Idea of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe
* 1998 – Patrick Major, The Death of the KPD: Communism and Anti-Communism in West Germany, 1945-1956
* 1999 – Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, ISBN 1-86207-029-6
* 2000 – Matthew Innes, State and Society in the Middle Ages: The Middle Rhine Valley, 400-1000
* 2001 – Nora Berend, At the Gate of Christendom: Jews, Muslims and 'Pagans' in Medieval Hungary, c.1000-c.1300
* 2002
** David Hopkin, Soldier and Peasant in French Popular Culture, 1766-1870
** Guy Rowlands, The Dynastic State and the Army Under Louis XIV
* 2003
** Norbert Peabody, Hindu Kingship and Polity in Precolonial India
** Michael Rowe, From Reich to State: the Rhineland in the Revolutionary Age, 1780-1830
* 2004 – Nikolaus Wachsmann, Hitler’s Prisons: Legal Terror in Nazi Germany
* 2005 – Robert Foley, German Strategy and the Path to Verdun: Erich von Falkenhayn and the Development of Attrition, 1870-1850
* 2006 – James E. Shaw, The Justice of Venice: Authorities and Liberties in the Urban Economy, 1550-1700
* 2007 – Yasmin Khan, The Great Partition: the Making of India and Pakistan
* 2008 – Dr Caroline Dodds Pennock, Bonds of Blood: Gender, Lifecycle and Sacrifice in Aztec Culture (Palgrave Macmillan: 2008)
* 2009 – Alice Rio, Legal Practice and the Written Word in the Early Middle Ages: Frankish Formulae, c.500-1000 (Cambridge University Press: 2009)
* 2010 – Natalie A. Zacek, Settler Society in the English Leeward Islands, c. 1670-1776 (Cambridge University Press: 2010)
* 2011 – Wendy Ugolini, Experiencing War as the ‘Enemy Other’: Italian Scottish Experience in World War II, (Manchester University Press: 2011)
* 2012 – Joel Isaac, Working Knowledge: Making the Human Sciences from Parsons to Kuhn, (Harvard University Press: 2012)
* 2013 – Sean A. Eddie, Freedom’s Price: Serfdom, Subjection, & Reform in Prussia, 1648-1848 (Oxford University Press: 2013)
* 2015
** Andrew Arsan, Interlopers of Empire: The Lebanese Diaspora in Colonial French West Africa (Hurst, 2014)
** Lucie Ryzova, The Age of the Efendiyya: Passages to Modernity in National-Colonial Egypt (Oxford University Press, 2014)
* 2016 – Emma Hunter, Political Thought and the Public Sphere in Tanzania (Cambridge University Press, 2015) ISBN 978-1-107-08817-7
* 2017 – Claire Eldridge, From Empire to Exile: History and Memory Within the Pied-Noir and Harki Communities, 1962–2012 (Manchester University Press, 2016)
* 2018 – Matthew S. Champion, The Fullness of Time: Temporalities of the Fifteenth-Century Low Countries (University of Chicago Press, 2017)
* 2019 – Duncan Hardy, Associative Political Culture in the Holy Roman Empire: Upper Germany, 1346-1521 (Oxford University Press, 2018)
* 2020 – Caillan Davenport, A History of the Roman Equestrian Order (Cambridge University Press, 2019)
* 2021 – Tom Stammers, The Purchase of the Past: Collecting Culture in Post-Revolutionary Paris, c.1790-1890 (Cambridge University Press, 2020).
* 2023 - Jennifer Keating, On Arid Ground: Political Ecologies of Empire in Russian Central Asia (OUP, 2022)