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[email protected] Telephone 01622 741198 ISSUED 12 NOVEMBER 2015 New £250 prize for history students The Kent Archaeological Society (KAS) announces a new biennial prize named in honour of the late Dr Joan Thirsk, who was a distinguished historian and a long‐standing member of the Society. The £250 Thirsk Prize will be awarded for a dissertation or a long essay, submitted as part of a successful Master’s degree, which is judged to be a major contribution to the history of Kent (including districts which were originally part of the county and are now within the Medway unitary authority and the London boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich and Lewisham). Dissertations and essays can be submitted from any academic institution. The prize aims to reward students working on the history and archaeology of Kent and to help promote publication of articles and chapters that advance scholarly knowledge of the county’s past. The KAS be willing to give advice on publication. The editor of the society’s annual journal, Archaeologia Cantiana, will also consider publishing articles based on the various submissions. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES The KAS will consider, for the first Thirsk Prize, dissertations and long essays completed for a Master’s degree within the calendar years 2015 and 2016.The final date for submissions is 31 December 2016. Dissertations and long essays must be submitted as a printed hard copy and also in electronic form on a disk. The hard copy must be suitably bound or within rigid covers and the disk must be in Word format.