Undergraduate prize winners 2025 announced

Posted: Thursday 4th December 2025

Prizes for Undergraduate Achievement in

Maritime History, 2025

The British Commission awards a small number of £75 prizes each year recognising excellence in undergraduate dissertations in the broad field of maritime history.

The Commission is delighted to announce that the following students have been awarded prizes in 2025:

John C. Beiner  (University of Edinburgh), ‘An Emblem of the Dire and Destructive Effects of War’, Sentimentalising the War at Sea, c.1780-1800

Abi Cunningham  (University of York), Rethinking Barbary Piracy: Trade Networks and Political Entanglements, 1619-1625

Claire Lacaden  (University College London), ‘Echoes across the Waves’, Maritime Mobility as a Legacy of Connectivity in the Philippines

Arran Mitchell  (University of Durham), Coal, Infrastructure, and Development during the Industrial Revolution: A Study of Seaham, c.1820-1900

Felix Nunneley  (University of Plymouth), The Perquisite of Wood Chips and its Abuses in Naval Dockyards in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Islwyn Phillips  (Keele University), Shipwrecks and Trade Networks: Maritime Archaeology in Gibraltar

Find out more about previous winners and how to apply here.