Professor Lorna Hutson Wins Book Award

Professor Lorna Hutson, Merton's Professor of English Literature, Fellow of the British Academy, and Director of the Centre for Early Modern Studies at the University of Oxford, has been awarded the Research Book of the Year prize at the 2024 Saltire Society National Book Awards.

Lorna's award-winning book, England’s Insular Imagining, offers a groundbreaking analysis of Tudor efforts to justify an attempted conquest of Scotland and later to redefine Scottish nationhood within an Anglo-imperial historical framework. The judges lauded the work as 'a landmark text across multiple disciplines,' recognising its interdisciplinary significance in reshaping historical and cultural understandings of Anglo-Scots relations. 

Lorna expressed her gratitude, stating:

'I am deeply honoured to have been awarded the Research Book of the Year Prize from the Saltire Society, which does such important work in supporting Scottish literary culture. My book asks us to look again at what we thought we knew about Anglo-Scots relations in the sixteenth century, but it has benefitted hugely from innovative work on Scottish materials by many others. This is a time of transformative research in Anglo-Scots history, of which I’m glad to be a part, and it means a great deal to me personally to have my work prized in Scotland.' 

Visit Saltire Society's website to view the winners list.