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Award-winning and shortlisted books

Award-winning books

Many of our books have been recognised with awards for the quality and importance of their scholarship. Find out more about our award-winning open access books below.

2024

Winner: Best Edited Book 2024, American Energy Society

Winner: 2024 London Archaeological Prize for the best book about London archaeology ​

Winner: 2024 Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) Academic Award

2023

Winner: 2023 Royal Television Society’s Scotland Student Award for Best Animation (Gregor Forbes’s animation that accompanies ‘An Unusual Period of Unspecified Length’: A Creative Oral History of the Covid-19 Pandemic.”

One of Choice’s Outstanding Academic Titles of 2023​

Winner: 2023 Certificate of Merit in Research on Record Labels or General Recording Topics by the Association for Recorded Sound Collections

2021

Cover of How and Why to Read and Create Children's Digital Books: A guide for Primary Practitioners

Winner: 2021 UKLA Academic book award

Winner: 2021 English PEN Award

2018

Winner: 2018 European Association of Social Anthropology (EASA) Early Career Award

Shortlisted books

2026

Shortlisted: 2026 BARS First Book Prize

Shortlisted: 2026 EAA Book Prize

Shortlisted: 2026 Pushkin House Book Prize

Shortlisted: 2026 Royal Historical Society First Book Prize

Honourable Mention: 2026 Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) Amaury Talbot Prize

2025

Commendation: 2025 World Architecture Book of the Year Award – Technology category

Shortlisted: 2024 Colvin Prize

2024

Cover of A History of Scientific Journals: Publishing at the Royal Society 1665-2015

Shortlisted: 2024 BSHS Pickstone Prize

2021

Finalist: 2021 National Urban Design Awards 2021

2020

Shortlisted: 2020 Royal Town Planning Institute Awards 2020

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