Aberdare Literary Prize 2011

Colleagues,

the announcement below contains details of the shortlist for the Aberdare Literary Prize, which will be presented at the Society's Annual Conference in London in September.

Thanks to Jason Wood for the details and thanks also to Jason, who steps down this summer after serving four years on the selection panel - the last two as its Chair.

Aberdare Literary Prize for Sports History

The short list for the Aberdare Prize for books published in 2010 is as follows (in alphabetical order): 

Duncan Hamilton, A Last English Summer (Quercus)

Tony Mason and Eliza Riedi, Sport and the Military: The British Armed Forces 1880-1960 (Cambridge University Press)

Kevin McCarthy, Gold, Silver and Green: The Irish Olympic Journey, 1896-1924 (Cork University Press)

Kay Schiller and Christopher Young, The 1972 Munich Olympics and the Making of Modern Germany (University of California Press)

Caroline Symons, The Gay Games: A History (Routledge)

Jonathan Wilson, The Anatomy of England: A History in Ten Matches (Orion)

The winner will be announced at the BSSH conference on 2-3 September 2011.