The Julia Wood Prize 2011 - Winners
This year there were 142 entries. The standard at the top was higher than in some recent years, and it was particularly pleasing that several of the best essays were written by candidates who were still in the Lower Sixth.
One of these is the winner, Jean-Andre Prager, of King’s College School, Wimbledon. His essay, entitled ‘The Religious, Political, and Social Accommodation and Appropriation of Darwinism’, will be published in History Review.
The judges awarded three second prizes: to Emily Brewer of The Thomas Hardye School, for an essay on the Malleus maleficarum; to William Perry of Marlborough College, for an essay on how concepts of English liberty were defined in reaction to perceptions of the French during the eighteenth century; and to Nicholas Wright of Monmouth School, for an essay on the demise of the western Roman Empire.