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HOUSING CIVIL ENGINEERING ARTS IN ARCHITECTURE FLETCHER OF SALTOUN HISTORY BOOK DOCUMENTARY FILM RESEARCH BOOK SCIENCE SCOTS SONG TESS EDUC. LITERARY Panel  Results Saltire History Book of the Year Award In memory of Dr. AGNES MURE MACKENZIE Award £1500 The Deadline for nominations for the History Book Awards 2008 Award is 6th September 2008. Scottish Historical book recommendations are requested. (Editions of texts are not eligible) Criterion: A book of Scottish Historical Research. Timings: Works to be considered for the 2008 Award will have been published between 1st September 2007 & 31 August 2008. (giving details of Title, Author, Publisher and where possible the ISBN) are invited from: Professors of Scottish History Editors of historical review journals and publications And Publishers nominating works are requested to send: Four copies of any nominated book, fitting the criterion, along with a letter of application to the address below. TWO HISTORY BOOK AWARDS WERE GIVEN, FOR WORK PUBLISHED IN 2006 AND 2007. The Winner of the 2007 History Book Award is: Christopher A. Whatley The Scots and the Union published by Edinburgh University Press The Winner of the 2006 History Book of the Year Award is: Bruce A. McAndrew Scotland's Historic Heraldry published by Boydell SHORT LISTS SCOTTISH HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2007 - Supported by the Saltire Society In memory of Agnes Mure Mackenzie Macdonald, Fiona A Missions to the Gaels: Reformation and Counter-Reformation in Ulster and the Highlands and Islands of Scotland 1560 - 1760, John Donald Ryrie, Alec The Origins of the Scottish Reformation, Manchester University Press Szechi, Daniel 1715 The Great Jacobite Rebellion, Yale University Press McAndrew, Bruce A Scotland's Historic Heraldry, Boydell SCOTTISH HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2007 - supported by Gillespie Macandrew WS. In memory of Agnes Mure Mackenzie Reynolds, Sian Paris-Edinburgh: Cultural Connections in the Belle Opoque, Ashgate Downie, Fiona She is but a Woman: Queenship in Scotland 1424 - 1463, John Donald Royle, Trevor The Flowers and the Forest: Scotland and the First World War, BIrlinn Whatley, Christopher A The Scots and the Union , Edinburgh University Press  THE MEMBERS OF THE PANEL ARE: Professor Edward Cowan (Convener) Dr. Iain Hutchison Dr. Catriona M.M. Macdonald   Scottish History Book of the Year   Year Author Title Publisher 1997 Dr Stephen Boardman The Early Stewart Kings, Robert II and Robert III 1371 - 1406 Tuckwell Press 1998 Dr William Ferguson The Identity of the Scottish Nation Edinburgh University Press 1999 Eric Richards Patrick Sellar & The Highland Clearances, Homicide Eviction and the Price of Progress Polygon Press presented by Paul Scott / Edward Cowan in the Carnegie Room, University of Glasgow. 2000 Marcus Merriman The Rough Wooings of Mary Queen of Scots 1542-1551 presented in the Bute Room, National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh. 2001 Roland Tanner The Late Medieval Scottish Parliament, Politics and the Three Estates, 1424-1488 presented by Norman MacDougall at Parliament Hall, St Andrews University 2002 Margo Todd The Culture of Protestantism in Early Modern Scotland presented by Ian Scott and Ted Cowan. 2003 Marjory Harper Adventurers and Exiles presented by Lord Sutherland at NLS. 2004 Michael Penman David II presented by Lord Cullen at NLS. 2006 Cynthia J Neville Native Lordships in Medieval Scotland The Earldoms of Strathearn and Lennox, c.1140-1365 presented by Derek McCulloch, Partner, Gillespie Macandrew WS 2007 Christopher Whatley The Scots and the Union presented by Cunison Rankin, Chairman of the Salitre Society. 2007 Bruce A. McAndrew Scotland's Historic Heraldry presented by John Stirling, Gillespie Macandrew WS

Agnes Mure Mackenzie

Agnes Muriel Mackenzie (she shortened it to 'Mure' for her books) was a doctor's daughter from Stornoway. She studied at Aberdeen University and lectured in English there and (for a short time from 1920) at Birkbeck College, London, before becoming a flill-time writer. She suffered all her life from poor eyesight and hearing, but was a prolific author. She wrote a few historical novels, but is best known for her non-fiction books on Scottish history and literature. She was made a CBE for services to Scottish literature in 1945, and died in Edinburgh on 26 February 1955. Spilt Ink (1913); Without Conditions (1923); The Women in Shakespeare's Plays (1924); The Half Loaf (1925); The Quiet Lady (1926); Lost Kinellan (1927); The Playgoer's Handbook to English Renaissance Drama (1927); The Process of Literature (1929); Keith of Kinellan (1930); Cypress in Moonlight (1931); Between Sun and Moon (1932); An Historical Survey of Scottish Literature to 1714 (1933); Rohert Bruce, King of Scots (1934); Single Combat (1934); The Rise of the Stewarts (1935); The Scotland of Queen Mary (1936); The Passing of the Stewarts (1937); The Foundations of Scotland (1938); I was at Bannockburn (1939); The Kingdom of Scotland (1940); Scotland's Past History (1941); The Arts and the Future of Scotland (1942); Scotland in Modern Times, 1720-1939 (1942); The Springing Thistle (1942); Scottish Pageant, 4 vols. (1946-9); ed., Old Scottish Christmas Hymns (1947); A History of Britain and Europe for Scottish Schools, 3 vols. (1949-51); Apprentice Majesty (1950); What we do in Church (1951); Rival Establishments in Scotland 1560-1690 (1952); David I (1953); A Garland of Scottish Prose (1956); The Edinburgh of Queen Mary (1958).