Professor Will Deringer article, “Mr. Aecroid’s Tables: Economic Calculations and Social Customs in the Early Modern Countryside,” has won the 2025 Walter D. Love Prize from the North American Conference on British Studies. The award is given out every year for the year’s best article by a North American scholar in the field of British history. His article was originally published in the March 2024 issue of the Journal of Modern History.
His award citation highlights that “Deringer’s article accomplishes a remarkable feat: making seventeenth-century discounting tables riveting. The article uses discounting tables as an entry point into a wide array of topics: the Church of England’s business arrangements, the agrarian side of the Financial Revolution, and how inflation challenged traditional customary relationships. In a year with many outstanding nominations, the committee appreciated Deringer’s deep archival research, his creative thinking, and most importantly, his ability to make a seemingly obscure topic extremely relevant to the here and now.”
Here is a link to the webpage from the NACBS with all award winners: https://www.nacbs.org/news/2025-award-winners
Here is the link to the article: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/728594 (open access)