Best paper in Scottish Local History winners announced
Two papers about 17th-century Scotland have won a new prize for Scottish history writing sponsored by Birlinn Limited.
John Harrison and Allan Kennedy (’s consultant editor) were each awarded a £100 prize, after the judging panel repeatedly reached deadlock. Their papers, about a 1674 climate crisis and Oliver Cromwell’s Inverness garrison respectively, were judged the best published in the journal of the Scottish Local History Forum in the previous twelve months.
