Prizes, grants and awards
Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography
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
2008 Rosemary Hill God’s Architect – Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain (Allen Lane) £5,000
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
See also
Prize winners 2008
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
Elizabeth Longford Prize – past winners
Encore Award
Encore Award – past winners
Eric Gregory Awards
Eric Gregory Trust Fund Awards – past 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 and Olive Cook Prize for a short story – past winners
Travelling Scholarships