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The Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography

Past winners

2009 Mark Bostridge Florence Nightingale: The Woman and Her Legend (Viking) £5,000.

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