THE JANET ALLAN ESSAY PRIZE


The Janet Allan Essay Prize is a biennial prize awarded for an essay on a
topic relating to the cultural or social history or ethnology of agriculture
or rural life in Scotland. The winner of the Prize in 2009 was Forbes W
Robertson for his essay 'Pears in Old Scottish Orchards', which will be
published in the Review of Scottish Culture 22 (2010).
 
The Prize is offered in memory of Miss Janet Smith Menzies Allan. A member
of the well-known agricultural engineering family of Allan of Murthly
(Perthshire), Janet Allan had a life-long interest in the history of
agriculture and rural life in Scotland and in the ways in which it could be
recorded and conserved.  

Applications for the 2011 Prize are now being invited. The closing date for
entries is 1 April 2011, with the winner being announced in September 2011.
For entry details and an application form, please write to: The Editors,
Review of Scottish Culture, Celtic and Scottish Studies, University of
Edinburgh, 27 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9LD.