Kirsty Peacock (DPhil) received the New Researcher Poster Prize for her research, ‘“Men must fight, and women must work – and weep”: New opportunities for women clerks in wartime City of London Banks? 1914-1918’. Her research, supported by the OOC-DTP Collaborative Doctoral Award, explores the history of women’s employment in London’s banking sector from 1870 to 1939.
Robert Yee (JRF) was awarded the annual Thirsk-Feinstein PhD Dissertation Prize for the best doctoral thesis in economic and social history. His dissertation, ‘The rise of expert opinion: The Bank of England and interwar economic governance, 1914-1940’, uses material from the archives of central banks, international organisations, and private corporations to demonstrate the influence of economic experts in shaping policy in interwar Britain.
Mattia Bertazzini (University of Nottingham, Oxford ESH Affiliate) has won the T.S. Ashton Prize for the best article published in the Economic History Review over the past two years. His article, ‘The effect of settler farming on indigenous agriculture: Evidence from Italian Libya’ (2022), examines the effects of European immigration and settlements in colonial Libya.
