Sofia Stores and Chloe Murley: Joint winners of the DGNHAS Young Researcher Competition for 2025

News posted on 9 December 2025

This year the judging panel of the Society decided to award the prize jointly to Chloe Murley (Lockerbie Academy) and Sofia Stores (St Joseph's College, Dumfries).  Chloe's paper is entitled Why is the Hallmuir Prisoner of War camp an important part of Dumfries and Galloway's history? and Sofia's paper is entitled Why is Caerlaverock Castle important in the history of Dumfries and Galloway?

You can get the answers to these questions  by downloading and viewing their prize-winning entries.

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