2011 Treaty of Utrecht Chair

2011-14 Wellcome Trust Pilot Project: The Birkbeck Pain Project (Rhetorics of Pain)

2006 Final shortlist for the Mind Book of the Year for Fear: A Cultural History

2005 Gold for the Best Audio Production for Volume 1940-1949 for "Eyewitness: A History of Twentieth Century Britain"

2005 Gold for the Most Original Audio for all 10 volumes of "Eyewitness: A History of Twentieth Century Britain"

2004 Gold for the Best Audio Production for Volume 1910-1919 for "Eyewitness: A History of Twentieth Century Britain"

2000 Wolfson History Prize for An Intimate History of Killing: Face-to-Face Killing in Twentieth Century Warfare

2000 Final shortlist for the W. H. Smith Literary Prize for An Intimate History of Killing: Face-to-Face Killing in Twentieth Century Warfare

1998 Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History for An Intimate History of Killing: Face-to-Face Killing in Twentieth Century Warfare

1993 Ronald Tress Prize for Husbandry to Housewifery: Women, Economic Change and Housework in Ireland, 1890-1914