Rachel Lane, winner in 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Rachel studied on the BA History course at the University of Gloucestershire from 2018. Over that period, she demonstrated a range of qualities that made her a strong student, and she progressed consistently from her first year. This is the result of enthusiasm for the subject combined with perseverance and her ability to learn, think critically, and work diligently. Rachel was very hard-working and conscientious who frequently brought her own ideas and findings to classroom discussions. With her dissertation project (which focussed on classical imagery during the Renaissance) Rachel demonstrated the dedication and stamina to complete a major research project, as well as her genuinely dedication to her scholarly and intellectual development.\u2019 Dr Erin Peters<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rhiannon Carter, winner in 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Rhiannon was an excellent student who demonstrated real enthusiasm for the subject, a commitment to the course and the University. She was able to develop her academic ability through hard-work, perseverance and full engagement with her studies, while also being a Course and Subject Representative. While obtaining a first-class honors degree, Rhiannon also submitted an excellent dissertation entitled \u2018Bletchley\u2019s Secret Heroines: an Investigation of the Women Working at Bletchley Park during the Second World War.\u2019 Overall, not only was she a great student, but she became an ambassador for the course and the University.\u2019 Dr Christian O\u2019Connell<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Historical Association (Gloucestershire Branch) prize for the best dissertation in History<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Marcie Jones, winner in 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Marcie\u2019s final year dissertation on the \u2018Betrayal of Bosnia\u2019 presented a detailed study of the impact of the military conflict in Srebrenica during the Balkan Wars of the 1990s. Marcie made a detailed examination of the evidence to support and contest the claim of the Serb-led attack on Bosnian Muslims as an act of genocide. The research required her to examine a broad range of historical materials. Amongst other sources, the dissertation referenced legal documentation, contemporary media reporting and oral testimonies. Marcie argued for the use of visual materials as a source of transitional justice.\u00a0It is a pleasure to be able to award Marcie this prize.\u2019 Professor Melanie Ilic<\/p>\n\n\n\n Owen Adams, winner in 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Owen\u2019s dissertation was entitled \u2018Conflicts over the 1612 establishment of the King\u2019s Ironworks in the Forest of Dean.\u2019 This was an excellent study in which Owen sought to \u2018contest a common perception of the Forest as an isolated economic backwater\u2019 and instead argues that \u2018in the 17th<\/sup> century the Forest of Dean was the beating heart of a circulatory system that helped to forge Great Britain and the proto-British Empire.\u2019 Dr Erin Peters: \u2018This is a very impressive research project. Its originality in terms of research, its contribution to knowledge, and the writing and presentation style is of publishable quality.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Gloucestershire branch on the Historical Association publish the winning dissertation on their website, which can be accessed here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Clare Southern Memorial Prize 2021 award for the student in the School of Education and Humanities who has demonstrated the most effective engagement with interdisciplinarity in their dissertation.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n James Woodcock, 2021 winner<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Throughout the three years of his Undergraduate degree at the University of Gloucestershire, James showed a wide-ranging curiosity in the past which moved beyond History to take in Philosophy and Literature. As his studies progressed, James\u2019 skill for moving across disciplines and drawing insights from a variety of primary sources culminated in his dissertation project. James\u2019 thesis confidently examined late nineteenth century novels which dealt with the \u2018New Woman\u2019 question. Situating the prose writing of, for example, Sarah Grand, against the burgeoning movement for women\u2019s rights, James\u2019 thesis was skilful and accomplished. It is our please to give James this award.\u2019 Dr Vicky Randall<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Conrad Tipping Memorial Prize for the best study\/dissertation of local history<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Richard Grace, 2021 winner<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018Richard chose a local dissertation topic with a clearly stated and defined central thread in its attempts to examine the role of the siege of Gloucester in the eventual outcome of the English Civil War. The dissertation offers an exploration of the strategic and economic importance of the city, the defensive stance taken by Gloucester supporters of the parliamentarian cause, and the wavering strategic decision-making of the Royalist forces that eventually resulted in defeat. He made good use of a range of primary source materials, including evaluative critique offered in the reading and interpretation of the contemporary eye-witness accounts, as well as of the later use of these sources by historians of the Civil Wars.\u2019 Dr Erin Peters <\/p>\n\n\n\n Rachel Lane and Sam Webber, joint winners in 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Rachel and Sam were awarded the prize for the local history project on the Life of Edward Wilson, the famous Cheltonian arctic explorer. The project was part of the History department\u2019s Cotswold Centre for History & Heritage, and was exhibited virtually as part of the Gloucester History in September 2020. 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1568, left, which features a woman with divining rods as Science and a man
with a hammer as Labour. The arms above the helmet hold calamine (zinc-bearing rock). There has been debate over the date of the Miners’ Brass,
right, one of the most well-known symbols of the Forest of Dean, which is an
embossment smaller than an A4 piece of paper on a stone tomb belonging
to two generations of the Lords of Dean and Abenhall – the latest was
Christopher Baynham, died 1557. Note the stylistic similarity of the helmet
and mantling to the 1568 arms.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n