Dr Rob Waters latest book nominated for major book prize

19 May 2020

Lecturer in Modern British History Dr Rob Waters' latest book Thinking Black: Britain, 1964-1985 has been nominated for the Royal Historical Society (RHS) Whitfield Book Prize 2020. One of the two annual RHS book prizes, the Whitfield Prize will be awarded to one of 6 nominated books on Irish or British History. The full list of nominations is below, with the winner being announced in July 2020.

• Black Handsworth: Race in 1980s Britain by Kieran Connell
• Inauguration and Liturgical Kingship in the Long Twelfth Century: Male and Female Accession Rituals in England, France and the Empire by Johanna Dale
• Ireland and the Great War: A Social and Political History by Niamh Gallagher
• The Veterans’ Tale. British Military Memoirs of the Second World War by Frances Houghton
• Sharing the Burden. The Armenian Question, Humanitarian Intervention, and Anglo-American Visions of Global Order by Charlie Laderman
• Thinking Black: Britain, 1964–1985 by Rob Waters

Full information is available on the RHS website.