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Elizabeth Longford Prize

Elizabeth Longford Prize

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The Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography was established in 2003 in memory of Elizabeth Longford (1906-2002), the British author, biographer and historian. The £5,000 prize is awarded annually for a historical biography published in the preceding year.

The Elizabeth Longford Prize is sponsored by Flora Fraser and Peter Soros and administered by the Society of Authors.

Winners

2020s

2022

Shortlist:

2021

Shortlist:

2020

  • Winner: D W. Hayton for Conservative Revolutionary: The Lives of Lewis Namier[3]

Shortlist:

  • Andrew S. Curran for Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely
  • Richard J. Evans for Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History
  • Oliver Soden for Michael Tippett: The Biography
  • A. N. Wilson for Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy

2010s

2019

  • Winner: Julian Jackson for A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle[4]

Shortlist:

2018

2017

  • John Bew for Citizen Clem: A Biography of Attlee

2016

  • Andrew Gailey for The Lost Imperialist: Lord Dufferin, Memory and Mythmaking in an Age of Celebrity

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2000s

2009

2008

  • Rosemary Hill for God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain[8]

2007

2006

  • Charles Williams for Petain: How the Hero of France Became a Convicted Traitor and Changed the Course of History

2005

2004

  • Katie Whitaker for Mad Madge: Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, Royalist, Writer and Romantic

2003

  • David Gilmour for The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling

References

  1. "2022 Winner - Andrew Roberts". Retrieved 9 October 2022.
  2. "2021 Prizewinner". 10 June 2021.
  3. "News & Archive". Retrieved 2021-10-16.
  4. Frances Wilson Wins Elizabeth Longford Prize. (2012). Bookseller, 5526, 13.
  5. PRIZES. (2011). Bookseller, 5484, 9.
  6. Thomson, I. (2014). 'God's traitors: Terror and faith in elizabethan england', by jessie childs. FT.Com. Retrieved 2021-10-16.

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