Carol Adams Prize
An annual £100 prize for the best AS, A2 or Scottish Highers or Advanced Highers essay on women’s history.
The Women’s History Network will award a £100 prize for the best AS, A2 or Scottish Highers or Advanced Highers essay on women’s history. This award was set up in honour of the late Carol Adams (first Chief Executive of the General Teaching Council) who helped pioneer women’s history in schools.
Essays
- can focus on any aspect of women’s history
- should be no longer than 1,000 words
- should include a bibliography
- be word processed
- the front page should include your name, the name of your school and the title of the essay
If you require any further information please contact Dr Paula Bartley at jandpdudley@t-online.hu. Essays should be sent to this email address.
Deadline: The deadline for submission is 31 May 2011. The Prize will be awarded in September at the WHN Annual Conference.
Winner 2009
Rachel Young from Portsmouth Grammar School was awarded the 2009 Carol Adams essay prize, it was announced at the WHN annual conference held in Oxford in September. Rachel's essay was titled 'What was the real role of gender in the Early Modern European witch hunts?'
In a strong year, other entries included essays on women's suffrage, women in Nazi Germany, an exploration of the Victorian notion of 'the angel in the house' and the position of women in the 1960s.
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Winner 2008
The Women’s History Network has awarded a £100 prize to Cara Brennan (pictured below), of Harrogate Grammar School, for the best essay on women’s history. The award was set up in honour of the late Carol Adams (first Chief Executive of the General Teaching Council) who helped pioneer women’s history in schools. The prize is aimed at students studying for their AS/A2 levels or their Higher Nationals.
Cara’s essay was ‘To what extent were the natures of the suffragists and the suffragettes different in the years 1903 to 1914?’ Cara studied for History, Politics and English Literature at ‘A’ level and received a Grade A in each of her subjects. She is now studying English Literature at the University of Newcastle. Cara was awarded the prize because her essay was well structured, analytic and historiographically aware. Her essay was a lucid exploration of the main differences — and some of the similarities — between the two major organizations. The judges were impressed with Cara’s knowledge of the subject and her historical flair.
