The Julia Wood Prize 2011
St Hugh's College, Oxford and History Review.
The Principal and Fellows of St Hugh's College, in association with History Review, offer the Prize, worth up to £500, for the best historical essay submitted by a schoolboy or girl who, at the closing date, has been in the Sixth Form of any school or college for a period of not more than two years.
A version of the winning essay will be published in History Review. Candidates should state whether they are in the Lower or the Upper Sixth, and should give a home and a school address. Essays should be submitted by a school, and no school should submit more than four essays. Essays should be of not less than two thousand words and not more than four thousand words.
The choice of historical subject is left to candidates. Essays should be typed, or clearly hand-written, on one side of the paper only. Two copies of each essay should be sent; they will not be returned. The closing date is Friday 10 June 2011, and it is hoped to make an award on or before Saturday 20 August 2011.
Essays should be sent to-
The Julia Wood Prize Committee,
St Hugh's College,
Oxford,
OX2 6LE
In 2010, the prize was Nicholas Dixon of Chigwell School. Two further awards were made to Olivia Elder of Oxford High School for Girls and Robert Wilson of the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe.