Previous John Armstrong Prize Winners
2018
Stephen Gadd ‘Illegal quays: Elizabethan customs reforms and suppression of the coastal trade of Christchurch, Hampshire’, published in Economic History Review, 2018, volume 71, No. 3, pages 727-746
2019
Nicholas Guoth ‘Advancing trade with China: the Eastern and Australian Mail Steam Company and the 1873 Mail Contract’, published in the International Journal of Maritime History, 2019, volume 31, No. 2, pages 263-284
2020
Madeleine Mant ‘For those in peril on and off the sea: merchant marine bodies in nineteenth-century St. John’s, Newfoundland’. Published in the International Journal of Maritime History, 2020, volume 32, No 1
2021
Dr Aaro Sahari of the University of Helsinki and Dr Saara Matala of Chalmers University of Technology, Stockholm. Their paper, Of a titan, winds and power: Transnational development of the icebreaker, 1890-1954 looks at the concept of technology transfer between nations. In this case, what they dub ‘technology carriers’ enabled three nations who needed icebreakers to share their design experience to overcome common problems in building this class of ship. Read news item.
2022 winner
Professor Václav Horčička, Professor of History at the Charles University, Prague, Faculty of Arts, for "Austro Hungarian merchant ships in the United States during the First World War", published in the International Journal of Maritime History, Volume 34, Issue 2. You can access an abstract here.
