{"id":968,"date":"2019-02-26T13:58:58","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T13:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awards.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=968"},"modified":"2019-02-26T13:58:59","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T13:58:59","slug":"stephen-croad-essay-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awards.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=968","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Croad Essay Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> The Ancient Monuments Society is delighted to announce the launch of its annual essay prize in memory of Stephen James Croad.\u00a0<br>Stephen died in 2017 at the age of 71, after a distinguished career as a researcher and archivist. Stephen was a strong supporter of the AMS, having served as Deputy Editor and Book Reviews Editor of the Society\u2019s Transactions &#8211; its peer-reviewed journal &#8211; for many years.\u00a0 In his various professional and voluntary roles, most notably as Head of the Architectural Record of the National Monuments Record, Stephen made a profound impact on the study of architectural history in this country.\u00a0\u00a0AMS Trustees have agreed to the establishment of an annual Essay Prize named in Stephen\u2019s honour, with a financial award of \u00a3500. The intention of the Essay Prize will be not only to keep alive Stephen\u2019s memory and to celebrate his contribution but also to encourage architectural research and writing. <br><br>Contributions are now invited: in the spirit of Stephen\u2019s own research and practice, these should be on factually verifiable, documented new discoveries on the historic buildings of England and Wales, whether part of the established canon or hitherto less examined.\u00a0For further details of the Prize\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/ancientmonumentssociety.org.uk\/stephen-croad-essay-prize\/\" target=\"_blank\">see here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ancient Monuments Society is delighted to announce the launch of its annual essay prize in memory of Stephen James Croad.\u00a0Stephen died in 2017 at the age of 71, after a distinguished career as a researcher and archivist. Stephen was a strong supporter of the AMS, having served as Deputy Editor and Book Reviews Editor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/awards.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/awards.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/awards.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awards.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awards.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/awards.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":969,"href":"https:\/\/awards.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions\/969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/awards.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awards.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awards.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}