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Previous Winners

2023 lewis wade

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

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2022

Ian Jones

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

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


Akram Beniamin

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

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2020


Joseph Lane

‘Networks, innovation and knowledge: the North Staffordshire Potteries, 1750-1851’ London School of Economics and Political Science

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

2019


2018

Ghassan Moazzin

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

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


2017

Christopher Corker

‘The business and technology of the Sheffield Armaments Industry, 1900-1930’
The York Management School, University of York

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


2016

Christopher Phillips

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

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


2015

David Singerman

'Inventing Purity in the Sugar World, 1860-1930'
Massachusetts Institute of Technology


2014

Emily Buchnea

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


2012

Michael Pritchard

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


2011

Xavier Duran

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


2010

Aashish Velkar

’Markets, Standards and Transactions: Measurements in Nineteenth-Century British Economy’
London School of Economics


2009

Stefan Schwarzkopf

'Respectable Persuaders: The Advertising Industry and British Society, 1900–1939'
Birkbeck, University of London


2008

Valerie Johnson

'British Multinationals, Culture and Empire in the Early Twentieth Century'
Kings College, University of London


2007

Stephanie DeckeR

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


2006

Lisa Jack

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


2005

Alan Carroll

'Re-ealuating the Performance of a Nationalised Industry: The National Freight Corporation 1947-1982'
Manchester Metropolitan University


2004

Giuliano Maielli

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


2003

Teresa da Silva Lopes

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


2002

Gerben Bakker

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


Janet Greenless

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

2001


Andrew PopP

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

2000