Prizes &
Recognition
We are very proud of the achievements of members of the Centre which have been recognised with the following prizes and awards:
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Angelina Andreeva was awarded the 2026 Curriers'/London Journal London History Essay Prize for "Fragile Urban World: Samuel Pepys's Experience of London after the Great Fire of 1666"
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Angelina Andreeva was awarded a Doctoral Fellowship at the Institute for Historical Research in 2025/26
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Murray Seccombe won the 2023 Gordon Foster Essay Prize for his essay 'My charges about the highways': Constables and Infrastructure, Sowerby, 1629–1694
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Ruth Byrne won the 2018 Gale Dissertation Research Fellowship in Nineteenth Century Media
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Patricia Murrieta-Flores (with Howard Williams) was awarded the 2017 Martyn Jope Award by the Society of Medieval Archaeology for their paper Placing the Pillar of Eliseg: Movement, Visibility and Memory in the Early Medieval Landscape
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Amelia Joulain-Jay won the 2016 Gale Dissertation Research Fellowship in Nineteenth Century Media
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The ERC-funded Spatial Humanities Project won the 2015 British Library Labs Research Prize
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Members of the Centre were part of the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science which won the 2015 Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education.
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Murrieta-Flores P., Cooper D., Gregory I., Rupp C.J., Hardie A. and Rayson P. (2013) “Digital Literary Geographies: A spatial analysis of Lake District writing” University of Liverpool won the prize for Best Poster at the GIS Research UK 2013