Final year History student Frederick Lloyd Williams has been awared 2nd place in the Marsden Prize, earning himself a reward of £300.
Set up in 1953, The Elizabeth and J.D. Marsden prizes are 'awarded to students who are adjudged the best students of the year - who have gained high distinction in their examinations, and who have throughout their University careers been of exemplary conduct and given proogs of outstanding character and personality'.
He achieved first class marks across the board in his final year with an outstanding dissertation on the creation and appropriation of the memory of Henry VI, King of England. Frederick acted as an official ‘History Mentor’ to eleven first year undergraduate students. He contributed to the first East Midlands Centre for History Learning and Teaching Dissertation Showcase Conference, on 29 May 2018, by being the only Nottingham History student to present his research findings to a group of around fifteen lecturers and students, fielding questions and also engaging with other students presenting their dissertation research.
Outside the department he has been active in the SU writing for Nottingham’s student magazine ‘Impact’ on the subject of film and TV, presenting the University Radio Nottingham (URN) ‘Classics Show’ for almost two years, hosting forty two-hour weekly radio shows on classical and film music, serving on URN’s committee as Head of Station Sound and Audio Imaging, 2017-18 and not least helping to set up a club frisbee team called ‘Aubergine Fire’ which played in Nottingham, Italy and Germany and won the Spirit Award at the Burla Beach tournament last summer for good positive team sportsmanship.
Posted on Thursday 19th July 2018