Recent Winners

See also the Restoration Grants page for restoration awards.

See 2010 to 2019 or up-to-2009 for earlier awards

(Click on images to view full size)

2026 AWARDS

  • The Peter Neaverson Award for Outstanding Scholarship was given to Neil Horsley for Mills Transformed – stories of mill regeneration.
  • The National Publications Award was won by England’s Lost Transport Heritage from the Air, by Allan Brodie.
  • The Local Publications Award was given to The Industrial Heritage of the Chilterns, by Hugh Howes, of the Chilterns Society.
  • The Community Engagement Award was given to Dr. Guilherme Pozzer, of the University of Sheffield, for the project Crafting the Past: Empowering Communities through Creative Writing, Visual Narratives, Memory, and Place-Making.

2025 AWARDS

  • The Peter Neaverson Award for Outstanding Scholarship was given to Amber Patrick, for her book The Buildings of the Malting Industry.
  • The Publications Award was won by Russell Thomas, Timur Tatlioglu and National Grid for Gasholders – a History in Pictures.
  • The Dissertation Award went to Ian Jackson of Nottingham University for his PhD thesis Climate change mitigation: Learning from the past to unlock the hydropower potential of the Derbyshire Derwent catchment.
  • The Archaeological Report Award was presented to Alvaro Mora-Ottomano of York Archaeology for his Level 3 recording assessment of Flamborough Head Lighthouse.
  • The Community Engagement Award was given to the West Somerset Railway Association for their Engaging with Heritage

2024 AWARDS

  • The Peter Neaverson Award for Outstanding Scholarship was given to James Douet for his book The Architecture of Steam – Waterworks and the Victorian Sanitary Crisis.
  • Publications Awards were made to: David Gwyn for The Coming of the Railway – A New Global History 1750-1850, and to Roger Burt and the Trevithick Society for the book Tin Mining in Cornwall 1900 to 1950 – Decline, Fall and Resurrection
  • The Dissertation Award went to Samuel Griffiths of York University for his MA dissertation: A Messy Business: an investigation into dust-yard sites and their workers in nineteenth-century London.
  • The Archaeological Report Award was presented to Mark Adams of Headland Archaeology for Liverpool Isle of Man Ferry Terminal: Archaeological Watching Brief.
  • Awards for Best Adaptive Re-Use of an Industrial Building were made to: Sudbury Gasworks Restoration Trust, Derbyshire, and to Derbyshire Historic Buildings Trust for the restoration of Wingfield Station.
  • The Community Engagement Award was given to Colin Elder of Salford Archaeology for the Big Dig 2 project in Rochdale.

2023 AWARDS

  • The Peter Neaverson Award for Outstanding Scholarship was given to George Demidowicz for his book The Soho Manufactory, Mint and Foundry, West Midlands: where Boulton, Watt and Murdoch made History.
  • The Publications Award was made to Patrick Grattan for his book Oasts and Hop Kilns: A History. Masaaki Okada’s work Fascinating Industrial landscape in Britain was highly commended.
  • The Dissertation Awards were given to: John McGuinness of the University of West London for his PhD Thesis: A study into the progressive incorporation of technology and the consequence use of space in “Low Status” housing in England and Wales, 1914 to 1975; and to Anthony Annakin-Smith for his Portsmouth University PhD The Neston Collieries 1759-1855: an industrial Revolution in Rural Cheshire.
  • The Community Engagement Award was given to the Museum of Liverpool for the Piermaster’s Green Community Archaeology project. Kirkaldy Testing Museum were highly commended for their Material Differences

2022 AWARDS

  • The Peter Neaverson Award for Outstanding Scholarship was given to Geoffrey Timmins for his book The Built Environment Transformed: Textile Lancashire during the Industrial Revolution. It was also awarded posthumously to David Pollard for Digging Bath Stone: A Quarry and Transport History.
  • The Community Engagement Award went to the Coker Rope and Sail Trust for work at Dawes Twineworks.

2021 AWARDS

  • The Peter Neaverson Award for Outstanding Scholarship was given to Lynn Pearson for her book England’s Co-operative Movement – an Architectural History.
  • The Dissertation Award went to Maria Dimitriou, University of Kent, for her PhD thesis Transformation of Industrial Heritage: The Case of Volos, Greece.
  • The Archaeological Report Award was made to Rowan Patel for Cheshire Glasshouse Sites: An Investigation of the County’s Forest Glass Industry.

2020 AWARDS

To encourage scholarship and investigation in the industrial archaeology field, the following awards were made to archaeologists, historians, professionals and students:

  • The Peter Neaverson Award for Outstanding Scholarship went to Wayne Cocroft and Paul Stamper for Legacies of the First World War: Building for total war 1914-1918, published by Historic England.
  • There were two Publication Awards, which went to:
    1. Martin Green and Michael Jeffs for The Ironmen of Leamington: Iron-founders and allied traders in Royal Leamington Spa 1800-1900, published by Warwickshire Industrial Archaeology Society.
    2. David Dungworth for Glassworking in England from the 14th to the 20th century, published by Historic England.
  • Two Research Grants were awarded to:
    1. Andrew Fielding for a re-appraisal of the salt making site at Crosscanonby, Allonby Bay (£848).
    2. Norman Redhead for an investigation of test pits at Marple Lime Kilns, Greater Manchester (£1,500).
    1.