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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
2020s
2022
Shortlist:
2021
Shortlist:
2020
Winner: D W. Hayton for Conservative Revolutionary: The Lives of Lewis Namier
[3]
Shortlist:
2010s
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
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
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