One of HÂþ»'s own has earned one of Scotland's most distinguished literary honours. Dr. Cynthia Neville, of the History Department, was recently awarded the Saltire Scottish History Book fo the Year Award for 2005.The prize was named in memory of the late historian Dr. Agnes Mure Mackenzie. The Saltire Society is an organization dedicated to the preservation of Scottish culture within the United Kingdom.
Dr. Neville's book, Native Lordship in Medieval Scotland: The Earldoms of Strathearn and Lennox, c. 1140 - 1365, was published in 2005 by Four Courts Press, Dublin. The book also received the Margaret Wade Labarge Prize, awarded last May by the Canadian Society of Medievalists for the best book published in 2005 by a Canadian medievalist.
In other History Department news, Dr. Todd McCallum was the recent recipient of the Canadian Historial Association's Eugene Forsey Prize in Canadian Labour and Working Class History. The prize was awarded for his 2004 Queen's University doctoral dissertation, Still Raining, Market Still Rotten; Homeless Men and the Early Years of the Great Depression.