{"id":1492,"date":"2018-06-18T16:30:28","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T16:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=1492"},"modified":"2019-01-24T13:02:12","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T13:02:12","slug":"mst-tutor-peter-more-wins-2018-mary-soames-award-for-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=1492","title":{"rendered":"MSt tutor Peter More wins 2018 Mary Soames Award for History"},"content":{"rendered":"

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MSt tutor Peter Moore has been awarded the Mary Soames Award for History<\/span>.<\/p>\n

From the press release<\/span><\/b><\/u><\/p>\n

“Peter Moore, author of The Sunday Times bestseller “<\/span>The Weather Experiment”, has been presented with the Mary Soames Award for History at a prestigious ceremony in London this week (Wednesday 13 June). The award\u00a0<\/span><\/span>was created as a gift to Lady Soames, Sir Winston Churchill\u2019s youngest daughter, to mark her 90th birthday, in 2012, and is given in recognition of achievement in history.<\/em><\/p>\n

Peter was one of 130 people being honoured at the ceremony\u00a0<\/span><\/span>to mark the successful completion of their overseas research as Churchill Fellows. Churchill Fellows are funded to travel for 4-8 weeks overseas, researching new ideas that can make a difference to their communities or professions in the UK.<\/em><\/p>\n

For his Fellowship, Peter travelled to Australia and New Zealand in 2016 to research the story of HM Bark\u00a0<\/span>Endeavour.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Endeavour\u00a0famously carried James Cook on his first great voyage, visiting Pacific islands unknown to European geography, charting New Zealand for the first time and the eastern coast of Australia and almost foundering on the Great Barrier Reef.<\/em><\/p>\n

Peter\u2019s research in Australia and New Zealand informed his forthcoming book, \u2018Endeavour: The Ship and the Attitude that Changed the World\u2019, which will be published in the UK on 23 August 2018 (Chatto & Windus)\u00a0<\/span><\/span>and in the USA (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) shortly afterwards.<\/em><\/p>\n

Speaking about his Fellowship, Peter said, \u201cIt is easy to think that\u00a0<\/span>Endeavour\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>story belongs firmly in the past. It\u2019s now 250 years since James Cook, Joseph Banks and ninety or so others set out from Plymouth in a tiny coal collier bound for the far side of the world. But the effects of what happened then are still very much being felt today. Being a Churchill Fellow allowed me to follow the story as best I could: meeting academics in Wellington and Canberra and talking to knowledge custodians of indigenous communities on the New South Wales coast and the Bay of Islands.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was an incredibly enriching experience and I\u2019d urge others wanting to travel to broaden their understanding of a subject to apply for a Churchill Fellowship too.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

For more information about the fellowships visit www.wcmt.org.uk<\/a><\/span><\/u><\/em><\/p>\n

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