The Longman-History Today Awards is the name of an annual awards ceremony, run by Longman

Longman

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 and History Today

History Today

History Today is an illustrated history magazine. Published monthly in London since January 1951, it is the world's leading, and possibly oldest, history magazine. Its successful mission has always been to present serious and authoritative history to as wide a public as possible...

magazine, in which prizes are presented in various categories "to promote the study, publication and accessibility of history to a wide audience." The Awards, given in memory of one of the founding editors of History Today

History Today

History Today is an illustrated history magazine. Published monthly in London since January 1951, it is the world's leading, and possibly oldest, history magazine. Its successful mission has always been to present serious and authoritative history to as wide a public as possible...

, Peter Quennell, are announced at a gala event in London each January.
The award categories are:

• The Trustees Award - given to a person or organisation that has done most to promote history over the last year or years.

• Book of the Year - given for an author’s first or second book.

• Picture Researcher of the Year - given to a researcher who has done outstanding work to enhance a text with the creative, imaginative and wide-ranging selection of appropriate images.

• Undergraduate Dissertation of the Year - for the best dissertation presented by a final-year undergraduate at a British university.

2010

Prize	Winner	Runner-up	Highly commended
The Trustees Award	Professor Tim Hitchcock (University of Hertfordshire) and Professor Robert Shoemaker (University of Sheffield) for The Old Bailey Proceedings Online and London Lives.
Book of the Year Award	Demobbed: Coming Home After the Second World War by Alan Allport Alan Allport Alan Allport is a British historian whose work looks at the relationship between war and society during the period of the two world wars. He was born in Whiston, Merseyside and moved to the United States in 1994. Allport received a Ph.D. in history from the University of Pennsylvania in 2007 and...  (Yale University Press Yale University Press Yale University Press is a book publisher founded in 1908 by George Parmly Day. It became an official department of Yale University in 1961, but remains financially and operationally autonomous.... )	Pashas: Traders and Travellers in the Islamic World by James Mather (Yale University Press Yale University Press Yale University Press is a book publisher founded in 1908 by George Parmly Day. It became an official department of Yale University in 1961, but remains financially and operationally autonomous.... )	Matters of the Heart: History Medicine and Emotion by Fay Bound Alberti (Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Oxford University Press is the largest university press in the world. It is a department of the University of Oxford and is governed by a group of 15 academics appointed by the Vice-Chancellor known as the Delegates of the Press. They are headed by the Secretary to the Delegates, who serves as... ) Selling Sex in the Reich: Prostitutes in German Society, 1914-45 by Victoria Harris (Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Oxford University Press is the largest university press in the world. It is a department of the University of Oxford and is governed by a group of 15 academics appointed by the Vice-Chancellor known as the Delegates of the Press. They are headed by the Secretary to the Delegates, who serves as... ) Bomber County: The Lost Airmen of World War Two by Daniel Swift (Hamish Hamilton Hamish Hamilton Hamish Hamilton Limited was a British book publishing house, founded in 1931 eponymously by the half-Scot half-American Jamie Hamilton . Confusingly, Jamie Hamilton was often referred to as Hamish Hamilton... )
Historical Picture Researcher of the Year	Julie McMahon (for Stalingrad by Antony Beevor Antony Beevor Antony James Beevor, FRSL is a British historian, educated at Winchester College and Sandhurst. He studied under the famous military historian John Keegan. Beevor is a former officer with the 11th Hussars who served in England and Germany for five years before resigning his commission... )	Steve Behan (for The Battle of Britain by Richard Overy Richard Overy Richard Overy is a British historian who has published extensively on the history of World War II and the Third Reich. In 2007 as The Times editor of Complete History of the World he chose the 50 key dates of world history.... )
Undergraduate Dissertation Prize	Alexander Baggallay (University of Edinburgh) for Myths of Mau Mau Expanded: The Role of Rehabilitation in Detention Camps During the State of Emergency in Kenya, 1954-1960	David Kenrick (University of Liverpool) for Identity and the Politics of Survival: White Rhodesia, 1965-1980

2009

Prize	Winner
The Trustees Award	Diarmaid MacCulloch Diarmaid MacCulloch Diarmaid Ninian John MacCulloch FBA, FSA, FR Hist S is Professor of the History of the Church at the University of Oxford and Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford...
Book of the Year Award	Hot Flushes, Cold Science: A History of the Modern Menopause by Louise Foxcroft (Granta Granta Granta is a literary magazine and publisher in the United Kingdom whose mission centers on its "belief in the power and urgency of the story, both in fiction and non-fiction, and the story’s supreme ability to describe, illuminate and make real." In 2007, The Observer stated, "In its blend of... )
Historical Picture Researcher of the Year	Alice Foster and Sally Paley (for Shakespeare’s London on Five Groats a Day by Richard Tames (Thames & Hudson Thames & Hudson Thames & Hudson is a publisher of illustrated books on art, architecture, design, and visual culture. With its headquarters in London, England it has a sister company in New York and subsidiaries in Melbourne, Singapore and Hong Kong... ))
Undergraduate Dissertation Prize	Eleanor Betts (Queen Mary, University of London) for Who Will Help? The Impact of the 1866 Cholera Epidemic on the Children of East London

2008

Prize	Winner	Runner-up	Highly commended
The Trustees Award	Simon Jenkins Simon Jenkins Sir Simon David Jenkins is a British newspaper columnist and author, and since November 2008 has been chairman of the National Trust. He currently writes columns for both The Guardian and London's Evening Standard, and was previously a commentator for The Times, which he edited from 1990 to 1992...
Book of the Year Award	The Forsaken: From the Great Depression to the Gulags – Hope and Betrayal in Stalin’s Russia by Tim Tzouliadis	The Pain and the Privilege: The Women in Lloyd George’s Life by Ffion Hague Pilgrims: New World Settlers and the Call of Home by Susan Hardman Moore	War in England, 1642-1649 by Barbara Donagan Richard II: Manhood, Youth and Politics by Christopher Fletcher The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution by Deborah E. Harkness Blessed Days of Anasthesia: How Anasthetics Changed the World by Stephanie J. Snow
Historical Picture Researcher of the Year	Melanie Haselden (for Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland’s Glory by Lisa Jardine)		Caroline Wood (for A History of Herbert Smith by Tom Philips) Alice Foster (for Discovery! Unearthing the New Treasures of Archaeology ed. Professor Brian M. Fagan)
Undergraduate Dissertation Prize	Catherine Martin, University of Greenwich University of Greenwich The University of Greenwich is a British university located in the London Borough of Greenwich, London, England. The main campus is located on the grounds of the Old Royal Naval College, a central location within the Maritime Greenwich UNESCO World Heritage Site.-History:The history of the...		Katherine McMullen, Oxford University Robbie Maxwell, University of Edinburgh University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1583, is a public research university located in Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The university is deeply embedded in the fabric of the city, with many of the buildings in the historic Old Town belonging to the university...

2007

Award	Winner	Highly commended
The Trustees Award	William Hague William Hague William Jefferson Hague is the British Foreign Secretary and First Secretary of State. He served as Leader of the Conservative Party from June 1997 to September 2001...
Book of the Year Award	Life on Air: A History of Radio 4 by David Hendy	Nazis and the Cinema by Susan Tegel God’s Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain by Rosemary Hill Mrs Woolf and the Servants: The Hidden Heart of Domestic Service by Alison Light
Picture Research Award	Juliet Brightmore (for A Little History of the English Country Church by Roy Strong)
Undergraduate Dissertation Prize	Morgan Daniels, Queen Mary, University of London Queen Mary, University of London Queen Mary, University of London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London...	Liz Homans, University of Wales, Bangor Dmitri Levitin, Selwyn College, Cambridge Selwyn College, Cambridge Selwyn College is a constituent college in the University of Cambridge in England, United Kingdom.The college was founded by the Selwyn Memorial Committee in memory of the Rt Reverend George Selwyn , who rowed on the Cambridge crew in the first Varsity Boat Race in 1829, and went on to become the...
Local History Project Award	Unheard Stories Unheard Stories Unheard Stories is a local history project exploring the history of deaf people in Wolverhampton. The project won the "Local History Project Award" at the 2008 Longman/History Today Awards....