PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 6 (2007) Winner
Vic Gatrell
ヴィック・ギャトレル
Vic Gatrell
Aliases:
V. A. C. Gatrell
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- South Africa
- Nationality
- British
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- South Africa (childhood) → Cambridge, England (since 1970) → University of Essex (2003-2009)
Career
- Occupations
- historian, Professor of British History
- Active Years
- 1971-2024
- Affiliations
- Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, University of Essex
- Nominations
- Authors' Club Banister Fletcher Award (shortlisted), Samuel Johnson Prize (listed), PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2014 (finalist, The First Bohemians), Duff Cooper Prize 2022 (shortlisted)
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rhodes University | — | History | first-class honours | — | South Africa |
| St John's College, Cambridge | — | History | Ph.D. | — | United Kingdom |
| Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge | — | — | — | — | United Kingdom |
Rhodes University
History
Degree:
first-class honours
Country:
South Africa
Elsie Ballot scholarship
St John's College, Cambridge
History
Degree:
Ph.D.
Country:
United Kingdom
Ph.D. on 'The Commercial Middle Class in Manchester 1820–1857'
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Country:
United Kingdom
research fellow, teaching fellow, tutor
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | T.S. Ashton Prize | Labour Power and the Size of Firms in the Lancashire Cotton Industry | — | Economic History Society | winner |
| 1994 | Whitfield Prize | The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People 1770-1868 | — | Royal Historical Society | winner |
| 2006 | Wolfson History Prize | City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in Eighteenth-century London | — | — | co-winner |
| 2006 | PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize | City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in Eighteenth-century London | — | — | winner |
T.S. Ashton Prize
1976
Work:
Labour Power and the Size of Firms in the Lancashire Cotton Industry
Organization:
Economic History Society
Result:
winner
Whitfield Prize
1994
Work:
The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People 1770-1868
Organization:
Royal Historical Society
Result:
winner
Wolfson History Prize
2006
Work:
City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in Eighteenth-century London
Result:
co-winner
PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize
2006
Work:
City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in Eighteenth-century London
Result:
winner
Awards & Nominations
Wolfson History Prize
1 appearances
Works
Major Works
The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People 1770-1868
1994 History of crime and punishmentA seminal study of changing attitudes to and emotions about capital punishment in England from 1770-1868.
capital punishmentemotionscultural change
City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in Eighteenth-century London
2006 History of satire and societyStudy of satirical caricature and manners in London 1780-1830.
satiresexeighteenth-century London
The First Bohemians: Life and Art in London's Golden Age
2013 Art history and bohemian cultureHistory of proto-bohemian Covent Garden and lower art world in 18th-century London.
bohemianismartreal life
Conspiracy on Cato Street: Liberty and Revolution in Regency London
2022 History of revolutionThe Cato Street Conspiracy in Regency London.
conspiracylibertyrevolution
Bibliography
- Robert Owen: A New View of Society and Report to the County of Lanark (ed., 1971)
- Crime and the Law: the Social History of Crime in Western Europe since 1500 (ed., 1980)
- The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People 1770-1868 (1994)
- City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in Eighteenth-century London (2006)
- The First Bohemians: Life and Art in London's Golden Age (2013)
- Conspiracy on Cato Street: Liberty and Revolution in Regency London (2022)
- Farewell the Jacarandas: Growing up in Apartheid South Africa: A Cambridge Historian's Memoir (2024)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- focus on common peopledetailed social and economic history
- Recurring Motifs
- crimepunishmentemotionsvisual satireimpolite art
Legacy
Prize-winning British historian pioneering studies on 18th-19th century crime, punishment, emotions, and impolite art/visual satire.
In Popular Culture
- Underpinned BBC4 'Rude Britannia' TV series
Trivia
- Born to working-class immigrant Londoners in apartheid South Africa
- Self-published memoir 'Farewell the Jacarandas' in 2024