- 2020: Prize not offered due to Covid-19
- 2019: Amanda Callan-Spenn, '"It is quite impossible to adequately conceal oneself in a bucket": Judo in the early twentieth century – a case study of Sarah Mayer'
- 2018: Luise Elsaesser, ‘"Dashing about with the greatest gallantry": polo in India and the British metropole, 1862–1914'
- 2017: Conor Heffernan, 'Selling strength or selling dreams? Eddie O’Callaghan and Sandow’s Irish Empire'