Hessell-Tiltman Prize
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The Hessell-Tiltman History Prize is awarded to the best work of non-fiction of historical content covering a period up to and including WWII
, and published in the year of the award. The books are to be of high literary merit but not primarily academic. The prize is organized by the United Kingdom
division of PEN
. It was founded in 2002 after PEN received a large was bequest from Marjorie Hessell-Tiltman. Each year's winner receives £3000.
Past Winners:
2011
Winner
Highly commended
2010
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Highly commended
2009
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2008
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Runner up
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2007
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2006
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2005
Winners (joint)
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2004
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2003
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2002
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World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
, and published in the year of the award. The books are to be of high literary merit but not primarily academic. The prize is organized by the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
division of PEN
International PEN
PEN International , the worldwide association of writers, was founded in London in 1921 to promote friendship and intellectual co-operation among writers everywhere....
. It was founded in 2002 after PEN received a large was bequest from Marjorie Hessell-Tiltman. Each year's winner receives £3000.
Past Winners:
2011
Winner
- Toby WilkinsonToby WilkinsonToby A. H. Wilkinson is an English Egyptologist. He is a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, and an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Archaeology, University of Durham.-Selected works:...
. The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt: the History of a Civilisation from 3000 BC to Cleopatra
Highly commended
- Amanda ForemanAmanda Foreman (biographer)Amanda Lucy Foreman is a British/American biographer and historian.-Family:Her father was the renowned screenwriter and film producer Carl Foreman who had to move to England in order to work after being blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios during the McCarthyism of the 1950s...
, A World on Fire: an Epic History of Two Nations Divided - Philip ManselPhilip ManselPhilip Mansel is a British historian and the author of a number of books about revolutionary and post-revolutionary France and the rise and fall of the Ottoman Empire...
, Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe in the Mediterranean - Roger MoorhouseRoger MoorhouseRoger Moorhouse is a British historian and author. Born in Stockport, Cheshire, he was raised in Hertfordshire and attended Berkhamsted School. Inspired to return to education by the East European Revolutions of 1989, Moorhouse enrolled in the School of Slavonic and East European Studies of the...
, Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler's Capital 1939-1945
2010
Winner
- Diarmaid MacCullock, A History of Christianity
Highly commended
- Amanda VickeryAmanda VickeryAmanda Vickery is a British historian and television presenter.She graduated from the former Bedford College, London where she completed her PhD in Modern History...
, Behind Closed Doors: at Home in Georgian London - Dominic LievenDominic LievenDominic Lieven is Professor of Russian Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Fellow of the British Academyand of Trinity College, Cambridge...
, Russia Against Napoleon
2009
Winner
- Mark ThompsonMark Thompson (historian)Mark Thompson is a British historian. He has written three books:* The White War is an account of the travesties of the Italian army on the Austrian front during World War I, including restoring the Roman practice of decimation .* Forging War is an account of...
, The White War: Life & Death on the Italian Front 1915-1919
2008
Winner
- Clair Wills, That Neutral Island
Runner up
- Mark MazowerMark MazowerMark A. Mazower is a British historian. His expertise is Greece, the Balkans and, more generally, 20th century Europe. He is currently a professor of history at Columbia University in New York City.-Career:...
, Hitler's Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe
Shortlist
- Philipp BlomPhilipp BlomPhilip Blom is a historian, novelist, journalist and translator. He was born in Hamburg, Germany, and studied in Vienna and Oxford. He holds a DPhil in Modern History from Oxford University...
, The Vertigo Years: Change and Culture in the West 1900-1914 - Leo Hollis, The Phoenix: St Paul's Cathedral and the Men Who Made Modern London
- Frederick Spotts, The Shameful Peace: How French Artists and Intellectuals Survived the Nazi Occupation
2007
Winner
- Vic GatrellVic GatrellVic Gatrell is a Life Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and a member of the Cambridge history faculty. Born in South Africa, he went to Rhodes University before taking honours in history and completing his Ph.D. in Cambridge...
, City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in Eighteenth-Century London
Shortlist
- Jerry Brotton, The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and His Art Collection
- Deborah Cohen, Household Gods: The British and Their Possessions
- William Dalrymple - : The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857The Last MughalThe Last Mughal, The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857 is a 2006 historical book by William Dalrymple.-Summary:The book, Dalrymple's sixth, won praise for its use of "The Mutiny Papers", which included previously ignored Indian accounts of the events of 1857...
- J. H. Elliott, Empires of the Atlantic World - Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830
- Adam ToozeAdam ToozeAdam Tooze is a British historian and was Reader in Modern European Economic History at the University of Cambridge. In 2002, he was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize for Modern History. As of Summer 2010, he is a professor of history at Yale University.He is currently best known for his economic...
, The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi EconomyThe Wages of DestructionThe Wages of Destruction is an award-winning non-fiction book detailing the economic history of Nazi Germany. Written by Adam Tooze, it was first published by Allen Lane in 2006....
2006
Winner
- Bryan Ward Perkins, The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization
Shortlist
- Charles TownshendCharles Townshend (Historian)Charles Townshend FBA is a British historian with particular expertise on the historic role of British imperialism in Ireland and Palestine.Townshend is currently Professor of International History at Keele University...
, Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion - Simon SchamaSimon SchamaSimon Michael Schama, CBE is a British historian and art historian. He is a University Professor of History and Art History at Columbia University. He is best known for writing and hosting the 15-part BBC documentary series A History of Britain...
, Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution
2005
Winners (joint)
- Paul FussellPaul FussellPaul Fussell is an American cultural and literary historian, author and university professor. His writings cover a variety of genres, from scholarly works on eighteenth-century English literature to commentary on America’s class system...
for The Boys' Crusade - Richard OveryRichard OveryRichard Overy is a British historian who has published extensively on the history of World War II and the Third Reich. In 2007 as The Times editor of Complete History of the World he chose the 50 key dates of world history....
, The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia
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- Joachim FestJoachim FestJoachim Clemens Fest was a German historian, journalist, critic and editor, best known for his writings and public commentary on Nazi Germany, including an important biography of Adolf Hitler and books about Albert Speer and the German Resistance...
- Inside Hitler's Bunker - The Last Days of the Third ReichInside Hitler's BunkerInside Hitler's Bunker: The Last Days of the Third Reich is a book by historian Joachim Fest about the last days of the life of Adolf Hitler, in his Führerbunker in 1945.... - Mark MazowerMark MazowerMark A. Mazower is a British historian. His expertise is Greece, the Balkans and, more generally, 20th century Europe. He is currently a professor of history at Columbia University in New York City.-Career:...
- Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950 - Jonathan Phillips - The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople
2004
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- Tom HollandTom Holland (author)-Biography:Holland was born near Oxford and brought up in the village of Broadchalke near Salisbury, England. His younger brother is the historian and novelist James Holland...
, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman RepublicRubicon: The Last Years of the Roman RepublicRubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic is a non-fiction book written by Tom Holland, published in 2003.The book tells the story of the end of the Roman Republic and the consequent establishment of the Roman Empire. The book takes its title from the river Rubicon in the northern...
Shortlist
- James BuchanJames BuchanJames Buchan, born 11 June 1954, is a British novelist and journalist.-Biography:Buchan is the son of William Buchan, 3rd Baron Tweedsmuir and grandson of John Buchan, the Scottish novelist and diplomat. He was educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford, and began his career as a Financial...
, Capital of the Mind: How Edinburgh Changed the World - Norman DaviesNorman DaviesProfessor Ivor Norman Richard Davies FBA, FRHistS is a leading English historian of Welsh descent, noted for his publications on the history of Europe, Poland, and the United Kingdom.- Academic career :...
, Rising '44. The Battle for WarsawRising '44. The Battle for WarsawRising '44: The Battle for Warsaw is a history book about the Warsaw Uprising, written by the English historian Norman Davies. One controversy about this book is that Davies consciously anglicised most of proper names in the book to order to bring its reality closer to the English reader and help... - Richard A. FletcherRichard A. FletcherRichard A. Fletcher was a historian who specialized in the medieval period. He was Professor of History at the University of York and one of the outstanding talents in English and Spanish medieval scholarship....
, The Cross and the Crescent: the dramatic story of the earliest encounters between Christians and Muslims - Diarmaid MacCullochDiarmaid MacCullochDiarmaid Ninian John MacCulloch FBA, FSA, FR Hist S is Professor of the History of the Church at the University of Oxford and Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford...
, Reformation: Europe’s House Divided 1490-1700
2003
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- Jenny UglowJenny UglowJennifer Sheila Uglow OBE is a British biographer, critic and publisher. The editorial director of Chatto & Windus, she has written critically acclaimed biographies of Elizabeth Gaskell, William Hogarth, Thomas Bewick and the Lunar Society, among others, and has also compiled a women's...
, The Lunar Society
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- William Dalrymple, White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in 18th Century IndiaWhite MughalsWhite Mughals is a 2002 history book by William Dalrymple.Its Dalrymple's fifth major book.-Summary:The book is a work of social history about the warm relations that existed between the British and some Indians in the 18th and early 19th century, when one in three British men in India was married...
- Geoffrey MoorhouseGeoffrey MoorhouseGeoffrey Moorhouse, FRGS, FRSL, D.Litt was an English journalist and author. He was born Geoffrey Heald in Bolton and took his stepfather's surname. He attended Bury Grammar School. He began writing as a journalist on the Bolton Evening News...
, The Pilgrimage of Grace: The Rebellion that Shook Henry VIII's Throne - Munro Price, The Fall of the French Monarchy: Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette and the Baron de Breteuil
- A.N. Wilson, The Victorians
2002
Winner
- Margaret MacMillanMargaret MacMillanMargaret Olwen MacMillan, OC is a historian and professor at the University of Oxford, where she is Warden of St. Antony's College. She is former provost of Trinity College and professor of history at the University of Toronto and previously, at Ryerson University...
, PeacemakersPeacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End WarPeacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War is a historical narrative based on the events of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. It was written by the Canadian historian Margaret MacMillan with a foreword by American diplomat Richard Holbrooke...