Frank Watson Book Prize
The Frank Watson Book Prize is an international, biennial academic book award, grant "for the best monograph, edited collection and/or book-length original work on Scottish History published in the previous two years."{{Citation | url=https://www.uoguelph.ca/arts/scottish/events/fall/frank-watson-book-prize |title= Frank Watson Book Prize 2021 |publisher=University of Guelph |access-date=2024-10-15|language=en-GB}} It has been awarded since 1993, It is awarded by a panel of experts organised by the entre for Scottish Studies at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada.{{Citation | url=https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/history/news/international-book-prize-for-beautifully-written-story-of-northumbrias-golden-age |title= International book prize for 'beautifully written' story of Northumbria's 'Golden Age' |publisher=University of Lancaster |access-date=2024-10-15|language=en-GB}} and comes with an invitation to deliver a plenary lecture.{{Citation | journal= International Review of Scottish Studies |title= Frank Watson Book Prize in Scottish History | volume=45 | year=2020 | url=https://journals.scholarsportal.info/pdf/19235755/v45inone/129_tfwbpish.xml_e |access-date=2024-10-15|language=en-GB}}, p. 130.
List of winners
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|+Frank Watson Book Prize winners{{Cite web |title=1993-2023 |url=https://www.uoguelph.ca/arts/scottish/events/fall/frank-watson-book-prize/ |access-date=2024-10-15 |website=The Frank Watson Book Prize |language=en-CA }} !Year !Author !Title !Publisher !Publication Year !Notes |
| 1993
|{{sortname|last=Allen|first=David|nolink=1}} | Virtue, Learning and the Scottish Enlightenment: Ideas of Scholarship in Early Modern History | Edinburgh University Press |1993 | |
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| 1995
|{{sortname|last=Eddington|first= Carol|nolink=1 }} | Court and Culture in Renaissance Scotland: Sir David Lindsay of the Mount | University of Massachusetts Press |1994 | |
| 1997
|{{sortname|last=Macinnes |first= Allan I. |nolink=1 }} | Clanship, Commerce, and the House of Stuart, 1603-1788 | Tuckwell Press |1996 | |
| 1999
|{{sortname|last= Brown |first= Callum G.|link=Callum Brown (author) }} | Up-helly-aa: Custom, Culture and Community in Shetland | Manchester University Press |1998 | |
| 2001
|{{sortname|last=Brown |first= Keith |nolink=1 }} | Noble Society in Scotland: Wealth, Family, and Culture from the Reformation to the Revolution | Edinburgh University Press |2000 | |
| 2003
|{{sortname|last=Rodger |first= Richard |link=Richard Rodger (academic)}} | The Transformation of Edinburgh: Land, Property and Trust in the Nineteenth Century | Cambridge University Press |2001 | |
| 2005
|{{sortname|last=Stevenson |first= David |link=David Stevenson (Scottish historian)}} | The Hunt for Rob Roy: The Man and the Myths | John Donald/Birlinn |2004 | |
| 2007
|{{sortname|last= Sher |first= Richard B. |nolink=1 }} | The Enlightenment & the Book: Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, & America | University of Chicago Press, |2006 | |
| 2009
|{{sortname|last= McGavin|first= John J.|nolink=1 }} | Theatricality and Narrative in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland | Ashgate |2007 | |
| 2011
|{{sortname|last= Finnegan |first= Diarmid A. |nolink=1 }} | Natural History Societies and Civic Culture in Victorian Scotland | Pickering and Chatto Press |2009 | |
| 2013
|{{sortname|last=Harper |first= Marjory |nolink=1 }} | Scotland No More? The Scots who Left Scotland in the 20th Century | Luath Press |2012 | |
| 2015
|{{sortname|last= Kennedy |first=Allan |nolink=1 }} | Governing Gaeldom: The Scottish Highlands and the Restoration State, 1660-1688 | Brill |2014 | |
| 2017
|{{sortname|last= Barrie |first= David G.|nolink=1}} and {{sortname|last= Brommhall |first= Susan |link=Susan Broomhall }} | Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland | Ashgate |2015 | |
| 2019
|{{sortname|last= Shannon |first= Tim |nolink=1 }} | Indian Captive, Indian King: Peter Williamson in America and Britain | Harvard University Press |2018 | |
| 2021
|{{sortname|last= Edmonds |first= Fiona |link=Fiona Edmonds}} | Gaelic Influence in the Northumbrian Kingdom: The Golden Age and the Viking Age | Boydell | 2019 | |