Elizabeth Longford Prize

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

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

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