Abigail Ann Young (Dr), Associate Editor/ Records of Early English Drama/ Victoria College/ 150 Charles Street W/ Toronto Ontario Canada Phone (416) 585-4504/ FAX (416) 813-4093/ [log in to unmask] List-owner of REED-L <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/reed-l.html> http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/reed.html => REED's home page http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~reed/stage.html => our theatre resource page http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~young => my home page ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 15:53:49 -0000 From: "Postles, Dr D.A." <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: [log in to unmask] To: "H-Albion (E-mail)" <[log in to unmask]> Cc: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>, "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>, "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>, "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>, "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]> Subject: John Nichols Prize: announcement From: [log in to unmask] Subject: John Nichols Prize Just to remind subscribers to the list that the John Nichols Prize is again available, the closing date being the end of the calendar year. Submissions should be sent to me, Dave Postles, at the Centre for English Local History, 5, Salisbury Road, Leicester, UK, LE1 7QR. You can discuss intending submissions with me ([log in to unmask]). The value of the Prize is one hundred pounds. Usually a decision is made about the award in February and the cheque sent in the early summer. Below is the text of the requirements for submissions which was drafted by a previous Head of Department. Please contact me informally if you are interested. Thanks, Dave Postles URL: http://www.le.ac.uk/elh/pot/nich.html It is hoped that intending competitors for this annual prize will be broadly sympathetic to the approaches of this Department or will be working in some other way constructively to advance scholarship in the subject. By "English local history" (which may also be taken to embrace Wales) we understand the historical study of two inter-related matters: local society and local landscape. In the former case the society may be regional or rural or urban, but it should display an identifiable character of its own. Such a "community" may be studied as a whole or thematically with respect, for example, to its institutions, its economy or its culture. In the latter case, the landscape in question may range from the topography of an individual settlement, or the characteristic of an identifiable district ( for example, woodland or fen) to the nature of a region. In all such instances the emphasis should be on the relationship between man and the environment and the marks he has left upon it. Whether entrants concentrate on one or other of these aspects of the subject, or on a combination of the two, it is hoped that such investigations will illustrate significant variations from the general picture presented in the textbooks. The Department is especially concerned to illuminate questions of general historical significance through the intensive study of the particular. Entries from those who wish to throw new light in some other way on an aspect of national history, through the study of a locality, therefore, will also be closely considered. If you feel that the subject you have proposed, falls within one of these categories, you are welcome to submit an essay on it. and may take this letter as signifying that your subject has been formally approved. However, compositions which have already been published, or which have been awarded any other prize, are not eligible. In judging the entries, account will be taken of form as well as substance. Between two essays of equal value as contributions to knowledge, preference will be given to the one with the more attractive literary presentation. The value of the prize is £100. The University reserves the right to make no award if no essay of sufficient merit is submitted. The University also reserves the right, but does not bind itself, to publish the winning essay in printed form. Essays must be submitted on or before 31 December. They must be typewritten, on one side of the paper only, with double spacing for the text, and single or double spacing for the footnotes. They must not exceed 20,000 words in length, excluding footnotes. References should be given at the foot of the page, and preferably in the forms adopted as standard in the publications of the Department. Communications, marked John Nichols Prize, should be addressed to Dave Postles, Department of English Local History, University of Leicester, Marc Fitch House, 5 Salisbury Road, Leicester, LE1 7QR. A stamped addressed envelope must accompany the typescript for return.