BAC Wadsworth Prize - Past Winners

2009 - PETER M JONES, Industrial Enlightenment (Manchester University Press).

2008 - JOCK McCULLOCH and GEOFFREY TWEEDALE, Defending the Indefensible: The Global Asbestos Industry and its Fight for Survival (Oxford University Press).

2007 - PETER SCOTT, Triumph of the South: A Regional Economic History of Early Twentieth Century Britain (Ashgate).

2006 - DR TERRY GOURVISH, The Official History of Britain and the Channel Tunnel, (Routledge and part of the Cabinet Office's official history series).

2005 - GEOFFREY JONES, Renewing Unilever: Transformation and Tradition, (Oxford University Press).

2004 - PROFESSOR ROBIN PEARSON, Insuring the Industrial Revolution. Fire Insurance in Great Britain, 1700-1850 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004).

2003 - PROFESSOR J FORBES MUNRO, Maritime Enterprise and Empire: Sir William Mackinnon and his Business Network, 1823-1893 (The Boydell Press, 2003).

2002 - MARTIN FRANSMAN, Telecoms in the Internet Age. From Boom to Bust to...? (Oxford: Oxford University Press)

2001 MARGRET ACKRILL and LESLIE HANNAH, Barclays: the business of banking 1690-1966. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)

2000 GEOFFREY JONES, Merchants to multinationals: British trading companies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. (Oxford: Oxford University Press)

1999 DAVID KYNASTON, City of London, volume 3: illusions of gold, 1914-45. (London: Chatto & Windus)

1998 NIALL FERGUSON, The worlds banker: the history of the house of Rothschild. (London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson)

1997 YOUSEFF CASSIS, Big business: the European experience in the twentieth century. (Oxford; Oxford University Press)

1996 RICHARD SAVILLE, Bank of Scotland: a history 1695-1995. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press)

1995 GEOFFREY TWEEDALE, Steel city: entrepreneurs of strategy and technology in Sheffield1743-1993. (Oxford: Clarendon Press)

1994 T. R. GOURVISH and R. G. WILSON, British brewing industry 1830-1980. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)

1993 JOHN HATCHER, The history of the British coal industry. Volume 1. Before 1700: towards the age of coal. (Oxford: Oxford University Press)

1992 OLIVER WESTALL, The Provincial Insurance Company, 1903-1938: family markets and competitive growth. (Manchester: Manchester University Press)

1991 CHARLES HARVEY and JON PRESS, William Morris: design and enterprise in VictorianEngland. (Manchester: Manchester University Press)

1990 SIR PETER THOMPSON, Sharing the success: the story of NFC. (London: Collins)

1989 MARTIN CAMPBELL KELLY, ICL: a business and technical history. (Oxford: Clarendon Press)

1988 CHRISTINE MACLEOD, Inventing the industrial revolution. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)

1987 STEVEN TOLLIDAY, Business, banking and politics: the case of British Steel 1918-1939. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press)

1986 ROY CHURCH, The history of the British coal industry. Volume 3: Victorian preeminence. (Oxford: Clarendon Press)

1985 RICHARD DAVENPORT-HINES, DudleyDocker. The life and times of a trade warrior. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)

1984 MICHAEL W. FLINN, The history of the British coal industry. Volume 2. 1700-1830: the industrial revolution. (Oxford: Clarendon Press)

1983 D. J. ROWE, Lead manufacturing inBritain: a history. (London, Croon Helm)

1982 R. W. FERRIER, The history of the British Petroleum Company. Volume 1: the developing years (1901-1932). (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)

1981 CHARLES E. HARVEY, The Rio Tinto Company: an economic history of an leading international mining concern. (Penzance: Alison Hodge)

1980 D. C. COLEMAN, Courtaulds: an economic and social history. (Oxford: Clarendon Press)

1979 PETER PAYNE, Colvilles and the Scottish steel industry. (Oxford: Clarendon Press)

1978 D. K. FIELDHOUSE, Unilever overseas: the anatomy of a multinational. (London: Croon Helm)

(Listed by year of publication. The award is generally made the following year)