SHELDON MEMORIAL TRUST
Essay Prizes

A first prize of £500
will be offered at the Trustees' discretion for the best unpublished essay on history, literature or the arts in connection with the City of York.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 2010.
Examples of topics chosen by recent entrants are:
Brewing in York; The York Festival of 1951; The Debtors' Prison, York; Cardinal Thomas Wolsey and the City of York 1514 – 1529; 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. The Trust welcomes entries from amateurs and students as well as from professional historians.

The Sheldon Memorial Trust was established to perpetuate the memory of Oliver Sheldon, founder and first Chairman of York Georgian Society, cofounder and first Secretary of York Civic Trust and a prime mover in the establishment of the Borthwick Institute in St Anthony's Hall and the Summer Schools which became the foundations of the University of York.