Hillcourt Silver Medal
Recipients of the 2024 Hillcourt Silver Medal
The Hillcourt Silver Medal will be awarded annually to historians who have given distinguished service to Scouting history at the national or international levels, including the various Boy Scout, Girl Scout, Girl Guide, and related organizations throughout the world.
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Recipients may be professional or avocational historians, including professors, teachers, museum directors and curators, archivists, librarians, independent scholars, authors, artists, and collectors. Service to the history of Scouting may be in any form or medium, including books, articles, museums, displays, speeches, conferences, film, and other forms of art.
Dr. Allen J. Warren
Dr. Warren is one of the founders of modern Scouting history. Starting in the 1980s,his 11 articles and book chapters on Baden-Powell and the early days of the Scout movement were among the first scholarly writings on B-P and Scouting, and related youth topics. He has also published almost 20 articles and books on British political, religious, and cultural history. His most recent book is Keynsham and its Scouts (Petergate, Quacks Books, 2021).
Dr. Warren received his D.Phil. in History from the University of Oxford in 1974, and joined the Department of History at York University, where he remained a member until his full retirement in 2011, including a period as its Head of Department from 1996 until 2003. For many years he served as Provost of Vanbrugh College at the University, where is now a Visiting Fellow. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
He has been active in Scouting in Britain as both a Scout and a leader, at the district level and nationally, having served several years as a member of The Scout Association’s Committee of the Council. The Chief Scout awarded him the Silver Wolf in 1987. In the Queen’s Birthday Honours List, June, 2011, he was awarded the rank of Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE).
(c) Andrew McAllister 2021
Dr.Tammy M. Proctor
Dr. Proctor s a leading scholar on the history of Boy Scouting and Girl Guiding/Scouting. She earned a Ph.D. in History from Rutgers University (1995), and had early career teaching positions at Rutgers, Princeton University, and Lakeland College. From 1998 to2013 she was employed at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, where she served as chair of the department. Since then, Dr. Proctor has been a professor of history at Utah State University, Logan, Utah, including chair of the department. She is currently a distinguished professor of history at Utah State University.
Dr. Proctor has authored or edited three books on Scouting history: Scouting for Girls: A Century of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (Santa Barbara: Praeger, 2009); Scouting Frontiers: Youth and the Scout Movement’s First Century (co-editor) (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009); and On My Honour: Guides and Scouts in Interwar Britain (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2002). Her other work on Scouting history includes book chapters, journal articles and many speeches, talks, and interviews.
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She has also written and spoken extensively on World War I and interwar Europe. She is the current co-editor of the Journal of British Studies. Her personal website istammymproctor.com
Dr. Kenneth P. Davis
Dr. Davis is the most published historian of the Boy Scouts of America. His books include A History of Wood Badge in the United States (two editions), The Brotherhood of Cheerful Service: A History of the Order of the Arrow (four editions), and Born at the Confluence: A History of the Philmont Staff Association (two editions).
After service in the United States Army in Vietnam, Dr. Davis earned a Ph.D. in history from the University of Virginia. His professional career of 28 years was dedicated to the United States, with the National Archives, the General Services Administration, and the Defense Logistics Agency. In addition to his tour of duty in Vietnam, he served in the US Army Reserve, retiring as a colonel after 31 years with many commendation and meritorious medals, as well as two Bronze Stars, the Legion of Merit, and the Defense Superior Service Medal. He has served as a reader/judge in book prizes for the Army Historical Foundation since 2012.
Dr. Davis is an exceptionally active and experienced Scout leader trainer, with 69 years of registered service, and has received the Boy Scouts of America’s Silver Beaver, Silver Antelope, and Silver Buffalo Awards, the Order of the Arrow Distinguished Service Award, and many other recognitions
