Florencia D’Uva of Universidad de Bueons Aires has been awarded the Labour History Review Post-Graduate Essay Prize for 2025. James Squires of Sheffield Hallam University has been named runner up.

LHR editor Professor Peter Gurney presented Dr Uva with her winner’s cheque for £700 at an event held by the Society for the Study of Labour History at the Marx Memorial Library on Saturday 29 November. Her winning essay, titled ‘Beyond mourning: widows, subsistence strategies and union solidarity in the world of railway labour. Argentina, early twentieth century’, will appear in a future issue of Labour History Review.

Professor Gurney also presented the runner’s up award to Dr Squires for his essay, titled ‘Widespread disbelief in the immediate danger of war’: The Communist Party of Great Britain and the Soviet War Scare, 1927-9’.

Find out more about the Labour History Review Essay Prize 2025.