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:
- 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
2017
- John Bew for Citizen Clem
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
2011
- Philip Ziegler for Edward Heath (bio of Edward Heath)
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[1]
2007
- Jessie Childs for Henry VIII's Last Victim: The Life and Times of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
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