SHELDON MEMORIAL TRUST
Essay Prizes

A first prize of £500 and a second prize of £200 will be offered at the Trustees' discretion for the best unpublished essays on history, literature or the arts in connection with the City of York.

The Trust hopes to arrange publication of the prize essays.

Essays should not exceed 7,500 words, should show original research and should be submitted by 1st October 2007.

Examples of topics chosen by recent entrants are:

Brewing in York
The York Festival of 1951
The Debtors' Prison, York
Owners and Occupiers of the Treasurer's House
Life in the Bar Convent, 1686-1900

Entrants should write for further particulars to the Trust's Secretary at 21 School Lane, Copmanthorpe, York YO23 3SQ and should notify him of their intended topic.