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Department Prize Winners

Celebrating Student Success

Winners of Economic History student prizes from 2015 to the current academic year

The Baines Prize in Economic History - EH101 candidate with the highest overall exam mark.

  • 2017 Maximilian Puchta
  • 2016 Sam Woolston
  • 2015 Myles Pittam

The Lilian Knowles Prize - for the student studying economic history who achieves the best set of marks in the first year

  • 2017 Mathilde Durazzano
  • 2016 Georgia Lourandos and Matthew Walton
  • 2015 Oliver Hinkin

The Altorfer-Ong Prize in British Business History - for best performance in EH240 exams.

  • 2017 Jake Hallam
  • 2016 Bethany Bloomer & Manavi Mehra
  • 2015 Alexander Pettinga & Ayman Boulos

EH204 'Golden Bottle' Prize - best essay

  • Winner 2016-17 George Pickering (runners up Houqian Tong, Gigi Choi)

  • Winner 2015-16: Oliver Hinkin (runners up Kevin Steyer, Nicolas Vecchioli)

Lilian Knowles Prize - For the student of economic history who achieves the best set of marks in the final year

  • 2017: Emilie Maret
  • 2016 Bethany Bloomer and Joshua Carson
  • 2015 Maximilian Johnson

EH390 (Dissertation) prize for highest mark awarded for a dissertation

    • 2017: Emilie Maret
    • 2016 Alexandra Esteve Santos
    • 2015 Peter Leighton

Masters Prizes

Hunt Prize: For the best dissertation marks on the MSc Economic History (Research).

  • 2017 Ian McLennan
  • 2016 Jennifer Koehler
  • 2015 Ramachandran Memon