UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

The Scottish History Society
 

2008 Scottish History Society Prize winner

Postgraduate prize winner 2008: Siobhan Talbott, and Professor Dauvit Broun The 2008 Scottish History Society Prize winner was Siobhan Talbott, a postgraduate student at the University of St Andrews. Siobhan's entry was the Letterbook of John Clerk of Penicuik, 1644-45.
This year the panel again also chose to award another outstanding entry with a 'highly commended'. This was to Nathan Gray, a postgraduate at the University of Glasgow, for his transcription of David Home of Crossrig’s 1701 ‘Society for the Reformation of Manners’.


2007 Scottish History Society Prize winner

Steven Reid receiving his prize from Professor Dauvit BrounThe 2007 Scottish History Society Prize winner was Steven Reid, a postgraduate student at the University of St Andrews. Steven's entry was an oration given by Dr Robert Howie, Doctor of Theology, when he resigned from the Rectorate of St Andrews University in 1617, and an account of St Mary's College, St Andrews, written in 1585/6 by James Melville.
The panel also chose to award another outstanding entry with a 'highly commended'. This was to Alice Taylor, a postgraduate at St Peter's College, Oxford, for her edition of the Dunfermline Chronicle.