The editors are pleased to congratulate Anna Svensson, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, Stockholm, the winner of the Annals of Science Best Paper Prize 2018 for her paper titled ‘“And Eden from the Chaos rose”: Utopian Order and Rebellion in the Oxford Physick Garden’. Anna’s essay appears in this issue.
As in previous years, submissions to the 2018 competition were of a high standard, and we’d like to thank the Editorial Board for thoroughly assessing each essay.
Rob Iliffe and David Philip Miller, Co-Editors