Jerrard Award

Since 2003 the Gloucestershire Rural Community Council Local History Committee annually awards a prize to the author of the best article published during the year on any aspect of local history in Gloucestershire. Bryan Jerrard was the former Chairman of the Committee, he offered great practical advice and encouragement when THS was set up in 1991. The judges look for interesting topics, organised material and footnotes (endnotes), and bibliography where appropriate; use of illustration, maps and plans, and a variety of sources with awareness of their reliability, together with how they relate to the regional and national context. The winner must demonstrate the connection between a local topic and its national context.

Year	THS Interest	Author & Title
2003	Short-Listed	John Dixon: "Tewkesbury's First - and Forgotten - Railway Station" (Vol.12)
2003	Short-Listed	Janet Devereux: "Our Tommies' are Always Cheerful" (Vol.12)
2004	Short-Listed	Dr. Anthea Jones: "Tewkesbury's Flour Mills" (Vol.13)
2005	Winner	Sam Eedle: "A Tewkesburian at Trafalgar" (Vol.14)
2005	Short-Listed	Derek Benson: "The Tewkesbury Races" (Vol.14)
2006	Winner	Richard Sermon: "The Jew of Tewkesbury: an Urban Myth?" (Vol.15)
2008	Short-Listed	John Dixon: "William Harrison Gray – a corrupt official?" (Vol 17)
2009	Short-Listed	Sam Eedle: "Adieu with Bangs and Whistles" - the Last Passenger Rail Service to Tewkesbury Station 1961 (Vol 18)
2010	Short-Listed	Derek Benson: "Chartism in Tewkesbury and District" (Vol.19)
2010	Short-Listed	Mick Wilks: "The Unfought Battle of Tewkesbury" (Vol.19)

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