News and recent awards
Wolfson History Prize (2009)
The winners of the prizes in 2009, awarded at a lunch on 16 June 2010, were:
Jonathan Sumption for Divided Houses: The Hundred Years War (Vol 3) (Faber & Faber)
Professor Dominic Lieven for Russia Against Napoleon: The Battle for Europe, 1807-1814 (Allen Lane: Penguin Press)
The winners received £20,000 each.
The judges were Sir Keith Thomas FBA (Chairman), Professor Dame Avril Cameron KBE FBA, Professor Richard Evans FBA and Professor Sir David Cannadine FBA.
The Wolfson History Prize, established in 1972, is awarded annually to promote and encourage standards of excellence in the writing of history for the general reading public. More information is available here.