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“The advice and help that the Society's staff dispense, and the weight of experience that they can bring to bear, are immensely valuable. A subscription to the Society is the greatest investment any writer can make.”
- Philip Pullman
The Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography was established in 2003 in affectionate memory of Elizabeth Longford, the acclaimed biographer, and is sponsored by Flora Fraser and Peter Soros.
It is awarded annually for a historical biography published in the year preceding the prize.
No unsolicited submissions are accepted.
Past winners
2007 Jessie Childs Henry VIII’s Last Victim – The Life and Times of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (Cape) £3,000
2006 Charles Williams Pétain (Little, Brown) £3,000
2005 Ian Kershaw Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry and Britain's Road to War (Penguin Allen Lane) £3,000
2004 Katie Whitaker Mad Madge: Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, Royalist, Writer and Romantic (Chatto & Windus) £3,000
2003 David Gilmour The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling (John Murray) £3,000
Awards and Prize Winners 2007
Betty Trask Prize and Awards
Betty Trask Prizes and Awards (past winners)
Cholmondeley Awards for Poets
Cholmondeley Awards for Poets (past winners)
Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography
Encore Award
Encore Award (past winners)
Eric Gregory Awards
Eric Gregory Trust Fund Awards (winners)
McKitterick Prize
McKitterick Prize (past winners)
Prizes for fiction and non-fiction
Sagittarius Prize (past winners)
Somerset Maugham Awards
Somerset Maugham Awards (past winners)
The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year
The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year (past winners)
Tom Gallon Trust Award and The Olive Cook Prize
Tom-Gallon Award for a short story (past winners)
Travelling Scholarships