The Magna Carta Project, a collaborative multi-centre research project based in the UK, has established the J. C. Holt Undergraduate Essay Prize. Students wishing to enter should write 2000-2500 words (including footnotes) on one of the twelve set topics (see further details link below). A bibliography should be attached.

Entries should be emailed in PDF format to magnacartaessay@gmail.com no later than 1 March 2015. The writer of the best essay will receive £250. The winner will be announced at the Magna Carta Project conference in London, in June 2015.

More details are available by clicking here, and by visiting the Project’s website, here.