Every two years, a panel from our Outreach and Engagement Committee awards the BSHS Ayrton Prize for digital or online engagement. Among the several excellent submissions in 2021, the winning entry Typhoidland appeared unanimously at the top of panel members’ lists. In addition, Our Journey, Our Story: History and Memory of Sickle Cell Anaemia in Britain, 1950-2020 was highly commended.
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Winner: Typhoidland
The panel praised the project’s appeal to multiple audiences; its choice of topics, achieving both conceptual coherence and a wide breadth of subject coverage; and its international reach. In addition, the panel was impressed by the project’s high production values.
Highly commended: Our Journey, Our Story: History and Memory of Sickle Cell Anaemia in Britain, 1950-2020
This collaborative project, with contributions from the Sickle Cell Society and the Black Cultural Archives (among others), impressed the panel with its foregrounding of personal testimonies – backed by well-chosen contextualising material – to provide compelling insights into a historically overlooked and under-appreciated story.