The prize for the best book published in 2025 and 2026 by a member of PCCBS will be awarded at the annual meeting in 2027. Authors, publishers, and other interested persons may make nominations. The book prize submission deadline is TBD. The books are judged by a three-person committee composed of PCCBS members.
Copies of the book, in hard copy or PDF, should be sent to all three committee members.
Winners
- 2025 Sam Fullerton, Sexual Politics in Revolutionary England (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2024)
- 2024 (co-winners) Simon Devereaux, Execution, State and Society in England, 1660-1900 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023) and Michelle Tusan, The Last Treaty: Lausanne and the End of the First World War in the Middle East (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023) and Honorable mention to Radhika Natarajan and Chao Tayiana, Hear Our Voices: A Powerful Retelling of the British Empire Through 20 True Stories (Wide Eyed Publishing, 2023)
- 2022-23 Micah Alpaugh, Friends of Freedom: The Rise of Social Movements in the Age of Atlantic Revolution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022)
- 2020-21 Priya Satia, Time’s Monster: How History Makes History (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020) and Honorable Mention to Susan M. Cogan, Catholic Social Networks in Early Modern England: Kinship, Gender, and Coexistence (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021)
- 2019 David Como, Radical Parliamentarians and the English Civil War (Oxford University Press, 2018) and Priya Satsa, Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution (Penguin, 2018)
- 2018 Erika Rappaport, A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World (Princeton, 2017) and Honorable mention to Susan D. Amussen & David E. Underdown, Gender, Culture and Politics in England, 1560- 1640: Turning the World Upside Down (Bloomsbury, 2017)
- 2016 Alastair Bellany and Thomas Cogswell, The Murder of King James I (Yale University Press, 2015) and Marc Matera, Black London: The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century (University of California Press, 2015)
- 2014 Jordanna Bailkin, The Afterlife of Empire (UC Press, 2012) and Honorable Mention to Michele Tusan, Smyrna’s Ashes: Humanitarianism, Genocide, and the Birth of the Middle East (UC Press, 2012)
- 2012 Reba Soffer, History, Historians, and Conservatism (Oxford, 2010)
- 2010 Priya Satia, Spies in Arabia: The Great War and the Cultural Foundations of Britain’s Covert Empire in the Middle East (Oxford, 2008)
- 2008 Deborah Harkness, The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution (Yale, 2008) James Vernon, Hunger: A Modern History (Belknap Press, 2007)
- 2006 Victoria Kahn, Wayward Contracts: The Crisis of Political Obligation in England, 1640-1674 (Princeton, 2004)