British Society for the History of Pharmacy

About the award

This award is now closed. 

 

Between 2012 - 2021, the medal was awarded for original and scholarly work in the history of British pharmacy, and evaluation is based on competence of research, skill in interpretation and ability in presentation. ​

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Past recipients

• 2021 - Emily Betz , University of St Andrews, Francis Bernard (1628-1698): A Seventeenth-Century Apothecary and Physician.

• 2020 - Sebastien Kroupa, Cambridge University, 'Medical knowledge in transit between Manila and London: Philippine materia medica lost and found in translation'

• 2019 - Katrina Maydom, 'Consuming New World Drugs in Early Modern London: James Petiver's Apothecary Practice.'

• 2018 - Alex Bowmer, Kings College London, 'A View from the Farm: antimicrobial resistance before antibiotics c.1940-1960'.

• 2017 - Katey Logan, Warwick University, 'Hearing the voices of Boots pharmacists: An investigation of identity 1930-2000'.

• 2016 - Anastasia Schulze, Warwick University, 'Under official and expert discussion': An examination of the social status of expert scientists in Britain through a study of media portrayals of the benzodiazepines crisis, 1960-1990.'

• 2015 - Laura Ghiggino, University of East Anglia, 'Chemicals, Herbs and Liquors: Medicines in 1914.'

• 2014 - Elizabeth Nally, Imperial College, 'Itching for a solution; making topical steroids a standard treatment for eczema.'

• 2013 - Sarah Trenfield, Cardiff University, 'Chlorpromazine and how it revolutionised the world of psychiatric drugs.'

• 2012 - Susan Osbaldstone, Strathclyde University, 'Pharmacists' entry into the National Health Service.'​​​​​​​​​

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