Postgraduates are encouraged to submit articles for consideration for the 2023 essay prize to the editors of Labour History Review. This annual prize awards £500 for the best essay, which will be published in the LHR. 

The essay prize is open to anyone currently registered for a higher research degree, in Britain or abroad, or to anyone who completed such a degree no earlier than February 2020.

The 2022 prize was awarded to Gregory Billam for his essay entitled ’Breakdown in the Communist Anglosphere? The Communist Party of Great Britain and Communist Party of Australia debate, 1947-1948’. Find out more.

The deadline for the 2023 prize is the 31 March 2023. Download the rules and entry form.