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 Winner: Andrew Roberts for George III: The Life and Reign of Britain’s Most Misunderstood Monarch (Allen Lane) Shortlist: Timothy Brennan for Places of Mind, A Life of Edward Said (Bloomsbury) Helen Carr for The Red Prince: The Life of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster (Oneworld Publications) Jonathan Petropoulos for Göring's Man in Paris: The Story of A Nazi Art Plunderer and His World (Yale University Press) Jane Ridley for George V: Never a Dull Moment (Chatto & Windus) 2021 Winner: Fredrik Logevall for JFK: Vol 1 (Penguin Books) Shortlist: Sudhir Hazareesingh for Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture (Allen King) Sarah LeFanu for Something of Themselves: Kipling, Kingsley, Conan Doyle and the Anglo-Boer War (Hurst) Samanth Subramanian for A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J.B.S Haldane (Atlantic) 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 2010s 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: A Biography of Attlee 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 -