• 2025: Stuart Gibbs, "Lady Florence Dixie and the Football Girls". Florence Dixie and her relationship with the British Ladies Football Club.
  • 2022: Alec Hurley, "Concern in the Caribbean: Cold War Politics and National Sovereignty at the 1966 Central American and Caribbean Games".
  • 2021: Isaac Avery, "A Grass Ceiling: An examination of the history of women's football in England 1881-2019.
  • 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'