This year’s Reih Bleeaney Vannanan cultural award has been made to Nigel Crowe.

It was for his scholarship in relation to genealogy, land records and historical landscape.

The panel of assessors singled out his long involvement with the Isle of Man Family History Society, the Isle of Man Natural History and Antiquarian Society, and the Manx Music Festival, noting that, without his work and enthusiasm, our understanding of the Isle of Man would be all the poorer.