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 edit
2020s edit
2022
- Winner: Andrew Roberts for George III: The Life and Reign of Britain’s Most Misunderstood Monarch (Allen Lane)[1]
Shortlist:
- Timothy Brennan for Places of Mind, A Life of Edward Said (Bloomsbury)
- Helen Carr for The Red Prince: The Life of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster (Oneworld Publications)
- Jonathan Petropoulos for Göring's Man in Paris: The Story of A Nazi Art Plunderer and His World (Yale University Press)
- Jane Ridley for George V: Never a Dull Moment (Chatto & Windus)
2021
- Winner: Fredrik Logevall for JFK: Vol 1 (Penguin Books)[2]
Shortlist:
- Sudhir Hazareesingh for Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture (Allen King)
- Sarah LeFanu for Something of Themselves: Kipling, Kingsley, Conan Doyle and the Anglo-Boer War (Hurst)
- Samanth Subramanian for A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J.B.S Haldane (Atlantic)
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 edit
2019
- Winner: Julian Jackson for A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle[4]
Shortlist:
- Diarmaid MacCulloch for Thomas Cromwell: A Life
- Andrew Roberts for Churchill: Walking with Destiny
- Jeffrey C. Stewart for The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
2018
- Giles Tremlett for Isabella of Castile: Europe's First Great Queen[5]
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
- Ben Macintyre for A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
2014
- Charles Moore for Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography. Volume 1
2013
- Anne Somerset for Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion
2012
- Frances Wilson for How to Survive the Titanic or The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay[6]
2011
- Philip Ziegler for Edward Heath (bio of Edward Heath)[7]
2010
- Tristram Hunt for The Frock-Coated Communist - The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels
2000s edit
2009
- Mark Bostridge for Florence Nightingale. The Woman and Her Legend
2008
- Rosemary Hill for God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain[8]
2007
- Jessie Childs for Henry VIII's Last Victim: The Life and Times of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey[9]
2006
- Charles Williams for Petain: How the Hero of France Became a Convicted Traitor and Changed the Course of History
2005
- Ian Kershaw for Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry, the Nazis, and the Road to War'
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 edit
- ^ "2022 Winner - Andrew Roberts". Retrieved 9 October 2022.
- ^ "2021 Prizewinner". 10 June 2021.
- ^ "2020 Prizewinner" (PDF).
- ^ "2019 Prizewinner" (PDF).
- ^ "News & Archive". Retrieved 2021-10-16.
- ^ Frances Wilson Wins Elizabeth Longford Prize. (2012). Bookseller, 5526, 13.
- ^ PRIZES. (2011). Bookseller, 5484, 9.
- ^ "Burnside, Thirlwell and Riley among Society of Authors winners", The Guardian, 19 June 2008.
- ^ Thomson, I. (2014). 'God's traitors: Terror and faith in elizabethan england', by jessie childs. FT.Com. Retrieved 2021-10-16.