2015

The Saltire Scottish Research Book of the Year Award
supported by the National Library of Scotland

Clubbing Together: Ethnicity, Civility and Formal Sociability in the Scottish Diaspora to 1930

By

Tanja Bueltmann

Published by Liverpool University Press

 

2014

the Saltire Scottish Research Book of the Year Award
supported by the National Library of Scotland

The Scottish Town in the Age of Enlightenment 1740-1820 [Edinburgh University Press]
Bob Harris & Charles McKean

 

 

 

 

 

2013 Scottish Research Book of the Year Award
winner:

Sunlit Summit

The Sunlit Summit - The Life of W H Murray
by Robin Lloyd-Jones
Sandstone Press

 

2013 Research Book of the Year Award Shortlist

This year's Shortlist has been announced ahead of the Saltire Literary Awards ceremony on 14th November at the Mitchell Library.

A Dictionary of Scottish Phrase and Fable

A Dictionary of Scottish Phrase and Fable
by Ian Crofton
Birlinn

 

Visions of Britain

Visions of Britain, 1730-1830
by Sebastian Mitchell
Palgrave McMillan

 

Nancy

Nancy Brysson Morrison: A Literary Life
by Mary Seenan 
Kennedy and Boyd

 

Sunlit Summit

The Sunlit Summit - The Life of W H Murray
by Robin Lloyd-Jones
Sandstone Press

 

 

 

 

We have made a few changes to the submission process that will help us. These are:

  • You may only submit a book for one category, but the panel will consider the winners in each category for book of the year.
  • There will be two deadlines which gives the panel more reading time. This is outlined in the submission form.

Scottish Research Book of the Year Award was established in 1998. The Award is made jointly with The National Library of Scotland. Overall, the awarded book will add to the knowledge and understanding of Scotland and the Scots.

The Award may be given to any book by an author or authors of Scottish descent or living in Scotland. It may also be given for any book which deals with the work or life of a Scot – or with a Scottish question, event or situation. Books being entered should represent a significant body of research and offer new insight or dimension to the subject.

Nominations are requested from research institutions, educational bodies, editors of specialised periodicals and journals and publishers.