Senior Hume Brown Prize in Scottish History

Dr Gordon Pentland wins prestigious prize for first book

Dr Gordon Pentland, Lecturer in British History, has been awarded the Senior Hume Brown Prize 2010 for his book Radicalism, Reform and National Identity in Scotland 1820 - 1833 (RHS Studies in History, 2008).

The prize is the most valuable and prestigious award in Scottish History writing and commemorates the life and work of Peter Hume Brown FBA, the first Sir William Fraser Professor of Scottish History and Palaeography in the University of Edinburgh, itself the world's first ever Chair in the subject. The Senior Hume Brown Prize 2010 is given for the best first book on any aspect of Scottish History published in 2008 or 2009 by a graduate of a Scottish university. The panel of judges consists of the holders of the established Chairs of Scottish History at Edinburgh, Glasgow and St Andrews universities.

Professor Tom Devine, current chair of the panel, commented: ' The 2010 competition attracted a significant number of high-quality entries, testifying to some of the excellent work being done by the new generation of Scottish historians. The judges therefore had a challenging task but in the end agreed that Gordon Pentland's outstanding study of radicalism and identity in the early decades of the nineteenth century was a very worthy winner.'

Previous Winners of the Senior Hume Brown Prize in Scottish History

2010 - Gordon Pentland, Radicalism, Reform and National Identity in Scotland, 1820-1833 (Royal Historical Society, 2008)

2008 - Douglas Watt, The Price of Scotland, Darien, Union and the Wealth of Nations (Edinburgh, 2007)

1999 - Dauvit Broun, The Irish Identity of the Kingdom of the Scots in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries (Woodbridge, 1999)