Awards

  • Nicolette Jones Elected Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

    2022 - Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

  • Nicolette Jones Nominated for the Eleanor Farjeon Award for distinguished service to the world of children’s books

    2012 - Nominated for the Eleanor Farjeon Award for distinguished service to the world of children’s books

  • Nicolette Jones Mountbatten Maritime Prize for The Plimsoll Sensation

    2006 - Mountbatten Maritime Prize for The Plimsoll Sensation

  • Nicolette Jones International Winner, US Maritime Literature Awards for The Plimsoll Sensation

    2007 - International Winner, US Maritime Literature Awards for The Plimsoll Sensation

  • Nicolette Jones Blooming Books nominated for British Book Awards Illustrated Book of the Year

    2003 - Blooming Books nominated for British Book Awards Illustrated Book of the Year

  • Nicolette Jones Appointed Royal Literary Fund Fellow

    2009 - Appointed Royal Literary Fund Fellow

  • Nicolette Jones Runner-up for the Catherine Pakenham Award for the outstanding woman journalist under the age of thirty

    1989 - Runner-up for the Catherine Pakenham Award for the outstanding woman journalist under the age of thirty

  • Nicolette Jones Made an honorary member of the Royal Naval Reserve Officers’ Dining Club

    2012 - Made an honorary member of the Royal Naval Reserve Officers’ Dining Club

Academic Awards

  • Nicolette Jones accepted a Henry Fellowship at Yale. The Charles and Julia Henry Fund sends one graduate student from Oxford or Cambridge to Harvard or Yale every year.

Nicolette Jones was accepted for the Henry Fellowship at Yale University

  • Nicolette Jones was offered the Frank Knox Fellowship, Harvard University, which she declined for the place at Yale.

Nicolette Jones offered Frank Knox Fellowship, Harvard University

  • Nicolette Jones was offered a Thouron Award to study at the University of Pennsylvania. However, this was declined for a fellowship at Yale.

Nicolette Jones offered Thouron Award, University of Pennsylvania

  • Nicolette Jones was the recipient of a Violet Vaughan Morgan Prize for English Literature from Oxford University.

Nicolette Jones won Violet Vaughan Morgan Prize for English Literature

  • Nicolette Jones was awarded an Agnes Leys Scholarship from St Hildas College at Oxford University.

Nicolette Jones at St Hildas College at Oxford University

Civic Awards

As co-founder, with Naomi Schillinger, of the Blackstock Triangle Gardeners community gardening project in 2009, Nicolette Jones also had a hand in encouraging the efforts that earned these awards.

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  • Islington in Bloom Best Small Neighbourhood Award and Gold Award for the Blackstock Triangle Gardeners

    2014

  • Islington in Bloom Best Street Award for Plimsoll Road

    2015

  • Islington Mayor’s Civic Award for the Neighbours of the Blackstock Road Triangle

    2009

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