The Frank Watson Book Prize is an international, biennial academic book award, grant "for the best monograph, edited collection and/or book-length original work on Scottish History published in the previous two years."[1] It has been awarded since 1993,[1] It is awarded by a panel of experts organised by the entre for Scottish Studies at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada.[2][1] and comes with an invitation to deliver a plenary lecture.[3]