Helen Smith was commended for her entry to the 2014 Pollard Prize competition, given for the best seminar paper presented at an Institute of Historical Research seminar by a postgraduate student or by a researcher within one year of completing the PhD. Helen’s paper was given to the History of Sexuality seminar, and was entitled ‘An awful lot of casual sex going on: Working-class men and the landscape of same-sex desire in the north of England 1945–1960’. If you are interested in learning more about Helen’s research, look out for her forthcoming monograph with Palgrave Macmillan, Masculinity and Same-Sex Desire in Industrial England.