The Dyos Prize has been awarded annually since 1992 for the best article submitted to the Urban History journal in each calendar year. The articles are judged by the journal editors and two independent adjudicators. The prize is named after H.J. Dyos (1921–78) to commemorate his innovative contribution to the development of the field of urban history. To reflect the catholicity and interdisciplinarity which Dyos encouraged, no temporal, geographical or thematic restrictions exist, except that the paper must make a significant contribution to the study of urban history. The prize consists of a cash sum and the publication of the paper in Urban History. Previous prize winners have included
- 1992
Mike Savage, ‘Urban history and social class: two paradigms’, and Jeremy Boulton, ‘Clandestine marriages in London: an examination of a neglected urban variable’
- 1993
Philippa Mein Smith and Lionel Frost, ‘Suburbia and infant death in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Adelaide’
- 1994
no award
- 1995
Andrew Brown-May, ‘A charitable indulgence: street stalls and the transformation of public space in Melbourne c. 1850–1920’
- 1996
Colin Pooley and Jean Turnbull, ‘Changing home and workplace in Victorian London: the life of Henry Jaques, shirtmaker’
- 1997
Martin Gorsky, ‘Mutual aid and civil society: friendly societies in nineteenth-century Bristol’
- 1998
John Foot, ‘From boomtown to bribesville: the images of the city, Milan 1980–87’
- 1999
Mauro Fernandez, ‘Forging nobility: the construction of a civic elite in early modern Madrid’
- 2000
David Pomfret, ‘The city of evil and the great outdoors: the modern health movement and the urban young 1918–40’
- 2001
Louise Miskell, ‘From conflict to co-operation: urban improvement and the case of Dundee 1790–1850’
- 2002
Andrew Burton, ‘“Brothers by day”: colonial policing in Dar es Salaam’
- 2003
Prashant Kidambi, ‘“A disease of locality”: plague, pythogenesis and the port in colonial Bombay c. 1896–1905’
- 2004
José María Cardesín, ‘“A tale of two cities”: the memory of Ferrol between the Navy and the working class'
- 2005
Bob Harris, ‘Looking for the Scottish urban renaissance: the evidence of the Angus burghs c. 1760–1820’
- 2006
Leif Jerram, ‘Bureaucratic passions and the colonies of modernity’
- 2007
Jon Stobart and Leonard Schwarz, ‘Leisure, luxury and urban specialization in the eighteenth century’
- 2008
Heiki Paunonen, Jani Vuolteenaho and Terhi Ainiala, ‘Industrial urbanization, working-class lads and slang toponyms in early twentieth-century Helsinki’
- 2009
Roger Picton, ‘Selling national urban renewal: the National Film Board, the National Capital Commission and post-war planning in Ottawa, Canada’
- 2010
Bruno Bonomo, ‘Dwelling space and social identities: the Roman bourgeoisie, c. 1950–1980’
- 2011
Jan Hein Furnée, ‘“Le bon public de la Haye”. Local governance and the audience in the French opera in The Hague, 1820–1890’
- 2012
Daniel Juette, ‘Entering a city: on a lost early modern practice’
- 2013
Julie Rugg, Fiona Stirling and Andy Clayden, ‘Churchyard and cemetery in an English industrial city: Sheffield, 1740–1900’
- 2014
Emily Callaci, ‘Chief village in a nation of villages: history, race and authority in Tanzania's Dodoma plan’
- 2015
Clare Copley, ‘Curating Tempelhof: negotiating the multiple histories of Berlin's “symbol of freedom”’
- 2016
Jointly awarded to Saúl Martínez Bermejo, ‘Lisbon, new Rome and emporium: comparing an early modern imperial capital, 1550–1750’, and Michael D. Kirkpatrick, ‘Phantoms of modernity: the 1984 anarchist furor in the making of modern Guatemala City’
- 2017
Sarah Mass, ‘Cost-benefit break down: unplannable spaces in 1970s Glasgow’
- 2018
Rosa Salzburg, ‘Mobility, cohabitation and cultural exchange in the lodging houses of early modern Venice’
- 2019
Taylor Zanieri and Guy Geltner, ‘The dynamics of healthscaping: mapping communal hygiene in Bologna, 1287–1383’
- 2020
Benjamin Looker, ‘Neighbourhood exceptionalism and racial liberalism in the Great Society city: integration as civic showpiece at St Louis’ LaClede Town’
- 2021
Caitlin John, ‘Urban space, power and people through the optic of cemeteries in late medieval Cairo and Paris’
