Book by Aberdeen academic wins prestigious history prize

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A book by a University of Aberdeen historian has been named as the joint winner of the 2021 Whitfield Prize.

Run by the Royal Historical Society, the award celebrates the best in historical writing from authors publishing in their sole name for the first time.

Dr Jackson Armstrong has shared the 2021 prize for his first monograph, England’s Northern Frontier: Conflict and Local Society in the Fifteenth-century Scottish Marches.