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COLEMAN PRIZE

Previous Winners

2026 Zane Jennings (London School of Economics)

‘The Political Economy of Permanent Capital: The English East India Company, 1657-1721’

Thesis summary

2025 kondwani happy ngoma (University of Gothenburg)

‘Disentangling Empire and Decolonisation: State and Business Relations in Southern Africa, 1923-1975’

2024 Juan-jOSE RIVAS MORENO (London School of Economics)

‘An Alternative Institutional Approach to Early Modern Long-Distance Trade Finance: The Capital Market of Manila, 1668-1838’

https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-capital-market-of-manila-and-the-pacific-trade-1668-1838

2023 lewis wade (University of Exeter)

‘Privilege at a Premium: Insurance, Maritime Law and Political Economy in Early Modern France, 1664-c.1710’

https://newbooksnetwork.com/privilege-economy-and-state-in-old-regime-france

2022

Ian Jones (University of Liverpool)

‘Using the past: Authenticity, reliability and the role of archives in Barclays.’

https://newbooksnetwork.com/civilian-specialists-at-war

Akram Beniamin (Henley Business School)

‘Cotton, Finance and Business Networks in a Globalised World: The Case of Egypt during the first half of the Twentieth century.’

https://overcast.fm/+s3EsfpgdU

2020

2019 Joseph Lane (London School of Economics and Political Science)

‘Networks, innovation and knowledge: the North Staffordshire Potteries, 1750-1851’

https://newbooksnetwork.com/joe-lane-networks-innovation-and-knowledge-the-north-staffordshire-potteries-1750-1851-lse-2023

2018 Ghassan Moazzin (University of Cambridge )

‘Networks of Capital: German Bankers and the Financial Internationalisation of China (1885-1919)’

https://newbooksnetwork.com/foreign-banks-and-global-finance-in-modern-china

2017

Christopher Corker (University of York )

‘The business and technology of the Sheffield Armaments Industry, 1900-1930’

https://newbooksnetwork.com/christopher-corker-the-business-and-technology-of-the-sheffield-armaments-industry-1900-1930-u-of-york-2016

2016

Christopher Phillips (University of Leeds)

'Managing Armageddon: Britain’s Transport Experts and the First World War'

https://newbooksnetwork.com/civilian-specialists-at-war

2015

David Singerman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

'Inventing Purity in the Sugar World, 1860-1930'

2014

Emily Buchnea (University of Nottingham)

'Bridging the Middle Atlantic: The Liverpool-New York Trading Community, 1763-1833'

2012

Michael Pritchard (De Montfort University)

'The Development and Growth of British Photographic Manufacturing and Retailing, 1839-1914'

2011

Xavier Duran (London School of Economics)

'Was the Pacific Railroad expected to be profitable? Evidence from entrepreneur's declared expectations, an empirical entry model and ex-post information'

2010

Aashish Velkar (London School of Economics)

’Markets, Standards and Transactions: Measurements in Nineteenth-Century British Economy’

2009

Stefan Schwarzkopf (Birkbeck, University of London)

'Respectable Persuaders: The Advertising Industry and British Society, 1900–1939'

2008

Valerie Johnson (Kings College, University of London)

'British Multinationals, Culture and Empire in the Early Twentieth Century'

2007

Stephanie DeckeR (University of Liverpool)

'Building up Goodwill: British business, development and economic nationalism in Ghana and Nigeria, 1945 to 1977'

2006

Lisa Jack (University of Essex)

'The Persistence of Post War Accounting Practices in UK Agriculture'

2005

Alan Carroll (Manchester Metropolitan University)

'Re-evaluating the Performance of a Nationalised Industry: The National Freight Corporation 1947-1982'

2004

Giuliano Maielli (London School of Economics)

'Managerial Culture and Company Survival: Technological Change and Output-mix Optimisation at Fiat, 1960 - 1987'

2003

Teresa da Silva Lopes (University of Reading)

'The Growth and Survival of Multinationals in the Global Alcoholic Beverages Industry'

2002

Gerben Bakker (European Institute, Florence)

'Entertainment Industrialised: The Emergence of the International Film Industry, 1890-1940'

Janet Greenless (University of York)

'Women's Impact on Capitalist Development: A Comparative Study of the Lancashire and American Cotton Industries, 1790-1860'

2001

2000 Andrew PopP (Sheffield Hallam UNIVERSITY)

'Business Structure, Business Culture and the Industrial District: The Potteries, c.1850-1900'