Congratulations to Ann Hale who has won the Sally Mitchell Dissertation Prize for her project "Business Matter: Legal Structures, Roles, People and Places in the Nineteenth Century Press - A Case Study of George Newnes Limited."
The awards also saw recognition across the Greenwich research community for their support and contribution to Ann's research and Andrew's contribution to other work recognised at the awards.
Prof Andrew King is connected to both the volumes which - unusually - jointly won the 2021 Robert and Vineta Colby Book Prize for the best book on the nineteenth-century press that came out last year. Andrew contributed a substantial chapter on the trade and professional press to the David Finkelstein volume and with Elizabeth Tilley (and another Greenwich graduate, Fiona Snailham) and is currently co-editing a volume on our conceptions and practices of “work” and their roots in the nineteenth-century periodical press.
He also shared that one of the PhD thesis runners up - Stephan Pigeon from McGill - is also a contributor to the work volume (along with Ann Hale herself, and another of our Greenwich graduates who has recently won a Caird fellowship at the Maritime Museum, Deborah Canavan). In previous years, Dr John Morton and Prof Andrew King won the Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly book prize two years in a row (2017 and 2018).
I’d like to take this opportunity to thank from the bottom of my heart, Ann’s co-supervisor Dr John Morton, of course, and also RETI’s wonderful staff for their all-too-often forgotten but essential labour.
Ann’s victory is very much a community effort. Collectively, we made the space for her to complete her “comprehensive and compelling study,” a true contribution of knowledge that opens new windows into the stories of who we are where we thought none existed, so as to reveal new vistas and, even more importantly, new ways of seeing and narrating.
Thank you to Prof Andrew King for sharing this news, and congratulations Ann from everyone at Greenwich.
