Vellacott history prize 2017 (peterhouse essay competition)

Submitting for English later today. I think my essay is alright but I'm not expecting a commendation to be honest with you.

Feel the same way with mine I mean, I am happy with my piece, but the competition is just so high.

Best of luck though x

You too! Out of curiosity, how many footnotes did you have if you don't mind me asking? For what it's worth, I only had a few. Just curious as to whether or not others have significantly more.

I was thinking that as well. How many footnotes did you have? I had around 16 and was wondering if that was too little.

You too! Out of curiosity, how many footnotes did you have if you don't mind me asking? For what it's worth, I only had a few. Just curious as to whether or not others have significantly more.

I think I have around 25. Still, I didn't use many sources, they were just referenced multiple times.

I just handed mine in right before the deadline. Nice to get the weight off my back.

Which question did you do? I did question 3.

I was actually so close to choosing that one!

Went for question 33 instead - was a bit philosophical, but quite interesting to research nevertheless.

That's a good one, I don't know why but I didn't even consider it. It looks interesting now that I have reread it. How confident are you?

In all honesty I am a little pessimistic. If you take a look at previous winning/commended entries, the quality is insanely high!

But what's done is done, and I can definitely say I've learnt so much during the process of writing/researching this essay. So regardless of whether I win anything or don't, it has ultimately been worthwhile and valuable, and I am convincing myself to look at these positive aspects.

How are you feeling?

I was not too pessimistic but from what you say about the standard, I'm getting less and less sure. By the way how can you tell the standard because of I've been looking everywhere for past winners or commended and wanted to see the kind of work that was highly regarded but couldn't find any.

Sometimes the schools of successful entries choose to publish them online.

http://www.kings-taunton.co.uk/assets/images/page/history/vellacott-35-thorne-m.pdf

http://www.kings-school.co.uk/fileadmin/user_upload/PDF/pupil_work/George_Palmer_Essay.pdf

I just found these now I think one of them was the winner and the other was HC

I haven't finished reading this but WERE WE MEANT TO HAVE DOUBLE SPACING????

Nah, the other entry I linked didn't use double spacing and they were highly commended!

Wow, the standard is really high...

Funnily enough, I prefer the one on Machiavelli to the one on Child Labour.

I just handed mine in right before the deadline. Nice to get the weight off my back.

Which question did you do? I did question 3.