Elizabeth Longford Prize Explained

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

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

2010s

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

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

External links

Notes and References

Web site: 2022 Winner - Andrew Roberts. 9 October 2022.
Web site: 2021 Prizewinner. 10 June 2021.
Web site: 2020 Prizewinner.
Web site: 2019 Prizewinner.
Web site: News & Archive. 2021-10-16.
Frances Wilson Wins Elizabeth Longford Prize. (2012). Bookseller, 5526, 13.
PRIZES. (2011). Bookseller, 5484, 9.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jun/19/news.guydammann "Burnside, Thirlwell and Riley among Society of Authors winners"
Thomson, I. (2014). 'God's traitors: Terror and faith in elizabethan england', by jessie childs. FT.Com. Retrieved 2021-10-16.