The Labour History Review essay prize 2025 is announced in Labour History Review (2024), 89, (3). Read more.

The editors of Labour History Review established this essay prize with the purpose of encouraging a high standard of scholarship amongst postgraduate research students in Britain and abroad.

The winner’s prize will consist of:

• Publication of the winning essay in Labour History Review

• A cash prize of £700

• One year’s free membership of the Society for the Study of Labour History, which includes subscription to Labour History Review

Other entries of sufficient quality may be invited to publish their submissions in the journal. If so, then they will be given one year’s free subscription to Labour History Review.

Full deails of the 2025 competition and an entry form can be found here.