Elizabeth Longford Prize

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

2020

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

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

Shortlist:

2018

2017

2016

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

2015

2014

2013

  • Anne Somerset for Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion

2012

2011

2010

2000s

2009

2008

  • Rosemary Hill for God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain[1]

2007

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
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