The winner of the 2017 Morley-Montgomery Award is Susan E. Bailey. Her paper, “Whitehall Place Irregulars: Female Searchers and Suspects in Nineteenth-century London,” appeared in the Spring 2017 issue of the Baker Street Journal.
The Morley-Montgomery Award is given each year for the best article to appear in The Baker Street Journal, and comes with a generous cash prize. See a list of all Morley-Montgomery Award Winners.
Winning Article
Whitehall Place Irregulars: Female Searchers and Suspects in Nineteenth-century London
by Susan E. Bailey in BSJ Vol. 67, No. 1 (Spring 2017), pp. 24-31.
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