The Historians of British Art is pleased to announce Book Award winners for publications from 2015. The winners were chosen from a nominating list of over eighty books from more than twenty different presses. Awards are granted in three categories:

Pre-1800

Margaret Aston, Broken Idols of the English Reformation (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015), 1128 pages, ISBN: 978  05217  70187, $200.

Post-1800

Jordan Bear, Disillusioned: Victorian Photography and the Discerning Subject (University Park: Penn State University Press, 2015), 216 pages, ISBN: 978  02710  65014, $75.

Multi-Author

Lucy Bradnock, Courtney J. Martin, and Rebecca Peabody, eds., Lawrence Alloway: Critic and Curator (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2015), 224 pages, ISBN 978  16060  64429, $40.

Tarnya Cooper, Aviva Burnstock, Maurice Howard, and Edward Town, eds., Painting in Britain, 1500–1630: Production, Influences, and Patronage (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), 400 pages, ISBN: 978  019726  5840, $250.

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