Announcements

Ralph Gomory Prize

We are delighted to announce and congratulate Mark Freeman, University of Glasgow, Robin Pearson, University of Hull, and James Taylor, University of Lancaster on winning the 2013 Ralph Gomory Prize for their book, Shareholder Democracies? Corporate Governance in Britain and Ireland before 1850 (University of Chicago Press, 2012).

IHA Bursary

The Institute for the History of Aluminium based in Paris offers each year bursaries amounting to 2,300 Euros to students wishing to undertake Masters research or a doctoral thesis using its material.  The projects are selected by the quality of the question and the interest of the proposed subject of study.  All approaches are envisaged: industrial history, economic history, human geography, sociology, history of management, history of art etc.

Students also receive scientific support: access to the firm archives and documentation, integration into the permanent research of the association, meetings with witness participants in the aluminium industry etc.

For more information: www.histalu.org, section 'bourses d'etudes'.

ESRC PhD Case Award, three years full fees - Profiting from Pauperism