The prize is typically awarded at the Society AGM in February of the year following the book’s year of publication. In most cases, the dates below refer to the year of publication rather than to the year of announcement.
2024: Stuart Eagles, Ruskin’s Faithful Stewards: Henry and Emily Swan (Ruskin Research Blog)
2023: David Ingram and Stephen Wildman, eds, Flora of Chamonix, by John Ruskin (Pallas Athene)
2022: No Award
2021 Joint Award: John Dixon Hunt’s The Art of Ruskin and the Spirit of Place (Reaktion) and Stephen Wildman’s An Instinct to Draw: John Ruskin’s Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum (Ashmolean Museum).
2020: In lieu of the prize, a donation was made to the Heritage Crafts Association, in recognition of its work supporting craftspeople during the Covid-19 Pandemic
2019 Andrew Hill’s Ruskinland: How John Ruskin Shapes our World (Pallas Athene)
2018: Robert Brownell, A Torch At Midnight: A Study of John Ruskin’s ‘The Seven Lamps of Architecture’ (Pallas Athene)
2017: Francis O’Gorman, ed., The Cambridge Companion to John Ruskin (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
2016: Keith Hanley and Caroline S. Hull, John Ruskin’s Continental Tour 1835: The Written Records and Drawings (Legenda)
2015: Ken and Jenny Jacobson, Carrying off the Palaces: Ruskin’s Lost Daguerreotypes (Bernard Quaritch)
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