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

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2020s

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2022

Shortlist:

2021

Shortlist:

2020

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

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2010s

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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

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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

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  1. ^ "2022 Winner - Andrew Roberts". Retrieved 9 October 2022.
  2. ^ "2021 Prizewinner". 10 June 2021.
  3. ^ "2020 Prizewinner" (PDF).
  4. ^ "2019 Prizewinner" (PDF).
  5. ^ "News & Archive". Retrieved 2021-10-16.
  6. ^ Frances Wilson Wins Elizabeth Longford Prize. (2012). Bookseller, 5526, 13.
  7. ^ PRIZES. (2011). Bookseller, 5484, 9.
  8. ^ "Burnside, Thirlwell and Riley among Society of Authors winners", The Guardian, 19 June 2008.
  9. ^ 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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