In 2008 the Book of the Year prize for a publication by a local history society went to Lest We Forget: the Tavistock Fallen of the Second World War by Alex Mettler and Gerry Woodcock (Tavistock Local History Society). The prize for an individual author was awarded to Geoffrey Tudor for Brunel's Hidden Kingdom. To commemorate the centenary of the Exeter-born W. G. Hoskins, the founder of local history as an academic discipline, a further prize was awarded to Sam Turner for Ancient Country: the Historic Character of Rural Devon. The Society is grateful Devon County Council for their financial support. The first prize (£300) for a dissertation went to the writer of Church Monuments in South Devon: the portrayal of status in funerary commemoration 1350 – 1650 and the second prize (£100) to that of A study of Civil Defence in Exeter, 1939 – 1945. It is hoped that abbreviated versions of both will be published in The Devon Historian.
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