OBOS is delighted to announce the two winners of the Empire Competition.<\/p>\n
Congratulations to Jack Clarke<\/strong> for his well-informed and wide-ranging essay, drawing out the strengths and weakness of Jeremy Paxman’s approach to history: and congratulations to Joseph Owen<\/strong> for his tough, funny, and critically astute imagining of the inception of Jeremy Paxman\u2019s work.<\/p>\n Read the winning entries here:<\/p>\n First Prize (\u00a3350 cash): Jack Clarke –\u00a0‘Jeremy Paxman: Empire, What ruling the world did to the British’<\/a><\/span><\/strong> This competition was supported by\u00a0SUSU<\/a><\/span>, John Smith\u2019s Bookshop<\/a>,\u00a0The Centre for Imperial and Postcolonial Studies<\/a>,\u00a0The Centre for Modern and Contemporary Writing<\/a>,\u00a0The Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Culture<\/a>,\u00a0The Centre for Transnational Studies<\/a>,\u00a0The Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies<\/a>,\u00a0The Centre for Nineteenth-Century Research<\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" OBOS is delighted to announce the two winners of the Empire Competition. Congratulations to Jack Clarke for his well-informed and wide-ranging essay, drawing out the strengths and weakness of Jeremy Paxman’s approach to history: and congratulations to Joseph Owen for his tough, funny, and critically astute imagining of the inception of Jeremy Paxman\u2019s work. Read the winning entries here: First …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94725,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-243","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","column","twocol"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P5kGPI-3V","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/onebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/onebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/onebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/onebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94725"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/onebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/onebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/onebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/243\/revisions\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/onebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSecond Prize (\u00a3100 in John Smith’s Book Tokens): Joseph Owen –\u00a0‘London, 2011’<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n