 This scholarly work earned the Wolfson History Prize for Cobb in 1979.In later years, Cobb published several volumes of memoirs and observational essays, including a fond account of his childhood in 1920s-era Tunbridge Wells, "Still Life" (1983), which won the J. R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography.This was followed by "People and Places" and "A Classical Education", both published in 1985; and "Something To Hold on To" (1988), in which Cobb recalls his grandparents and other relatives in a highly personalised form of "history from below".