PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize
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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:More citations needed The PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize is awarded to the best work of non-fiction of historical content covering a period up to and including World War II, and published in the year of the award.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 English PEN. Marjorie Hessell-Tiltman was a member of PEN during the 1960s and 1970s; on her death in 1999 she bequeathed £100,000 to the PEN Literary Foundation to found a prize in her name.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite news</ref> Each year's winner receives £2,000.<ref name=":0" />
The award is one of many PEN awards sponsored by PEN International affiliates in over 145 PEN centres around the world.
Winners and shortlist
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2000s
2002
- Template:Blue ribbon Margaret MacMillan, Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War
2003
- William Dalrymple, White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in 18th Century India
- Geoffrey Moorhouse, 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
- Template:Blue ribbon Jenny Uglow, The Lunar Men: The Friends Who Made the Future 1730–1810
- A.N. Wilson, The Victorians
2004
- James Buchan, Capital of the Mind: How Edinburgh Changed the World
- Norman Davies, Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw
- Richard A. Fletcher, The Cross and the Crescent: The Dramatic Story of the Earliest Encounters Between Christians and Muslims
- Template:Blue ribbon Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
- Diarmaid MacCulloch, Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490–1700
2005
- Joachim Fest, Inside Hitler's Bunker: The Last Days of the Third Reich
- Template:Blue ribbon Paul Fussell, The Boys' Crusade: The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944–1945 (joint winners)
- Mark Mazower, Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430–1950
- Template:Blue ribbon Richard Overy, The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia (joint winners)
- Jonathan Phillips, The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople
2006
- Charles Townshend, Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion
- Simon Schama, Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution
- Template:Blue ribbon Bryan Ward-Perkins, The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization
2007
- 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 Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857
- J. H. Elliott, Empires of the Atlantic World – Britain and Spain in America, 1492–1830
- Template:Blue ribbon Vic Gatrell, City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in Eighteenth-Century London
- Adam Tooze, The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
2008
- Philipp Blom, 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
- Mark Mazower, Hitler's Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe
- Frederick Spotts, The Shameful Peace: How French Artists and Intellectuals Survived the Nazi Occupation
- Template:Blue ribbon Clair Wills, That Neutral Island: A cultural history of Ireland during the Second World War
2009
- Template:Blue ribbon Mark Thompson, The White War: Life & Death on the Italian Front 1915–1919
2010s
2010
- Dominic Lieven, Russia Against Napoleon: The Battle for Europe, 1807 to 1814
- Template:Blue ribbon Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years
- Amanda Vickery, Behind Closed Doors: at Home in Georgian London
2011
- Amanda Foreman, A World on Fire: an Epic History of Two Nations Divided
- Philip Mansel, Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe in the Mediterranean
- Roger Moorhouse, Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler's Capital 1939–1945
- Template:Blue ribbon Toby Wilkinson, The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt: the History of a Civilisation from 3000 BC to Cleopatra<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2012
- Lizzie Collingham, The Taste of War: World War II and the Battle for Food
- Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe
- David Edgerton, Britain's War Machine: Weapons, Resources and Experts in the Second World War
- Template:Blue ribbon James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
- Edward J. Larson, An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science
- Adam Hochschild, To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914–1918
2013
- Jerry Brotton, A History of the World in Twelve Maps
- Chris Clark, The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
- Nigel Cliff, The Last Crusade: The Epic Voyages of Vasco da Gama
- Jonathan Dimbleby, Destiny in the Desert: The Road to El Alamein
- Template:Blue ribbon Keith Lowe, Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Mark Mazower, Governing the World: The History of an Idea
2014
- David Crane, Empires of the Dead: How One Man's Vision Led to the Creation of WWI's World Graves
- William Dalrymple, Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan
- Vic Gatrell, The First Bohemians: Life and Art in London's Golden Age
- Charlotte Higgins, Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain
- Template:Blue ribbon David Reynolds, The Long Shadow: The Great War and the Twentieth Century<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- Carl Watkins, The Undiscovered Country: Journeys Among the Dead
2015
- Mark Bostridge, The Fateful Year: England 1914
- Template:Blue ribbon Jessie Childs, God's Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England
- Ronald Hutton, Pagan Britain
- Robert Tombs, The English and Their History
- Jenny Uglow, In These Times: Living in Britain Through Napoleon's Wars
2016
- Mary Beard, SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
- Peter Frankopan, The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
- Sarah Helm, If This Is a Woman – Inside Ravensbruck: Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women
- Raghu Karnad, The Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War
- James S. Shapiro, 1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear
- Template:Blue ribbon Nicholas Stargardt, The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939–1945<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2017
The shortlist was announced 7 June 2017.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The winner was announced 10 July.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
- Jerry Brotton, This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World
- Susan L. Carruthers, The Good Occupation: American Soldiers and the Hazards of Peace
- Dan Cruickshank, Spitalfields: The History of a Nation in a Handful of Streets
- Frank Dikötter, The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962–1976
- Template:Blue ribbon David Olusoga, Black and British: A Forgotten History
- Tim Whitmarsh, Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World
2018
The shortlist was announced 22 March 2018.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The winner was announced 24 June 2018.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Stephen Alford, London's Triumph: Merchant Adventurers and the Tudor City
- Anne Applebaum, Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
- Masha Gessen, The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
- Christopher J. Lebron, The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea
- Lynda Nead, The Tiger in the Smoke: Art and Culture in Post-War Britain
- Template:Blue ribbon S. A. Smith, Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890–1928
2019
The winner was announced 4 December 2019.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Template:Blue ribbon Edward Wilson-Lee, The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Young Columbus and the Quest for a Universal Library
2020s
2020
The shortlist was announced on 29 October 2020.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The winner was announced on 1 December 2020.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Template:Blue ribbon Anita Anand, The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge, and the Raj
- Julia Blackburn, Time Song: Searching for Doggerland
- Hazel Carby, Imperial: A Tale of Two Islands
- Toby Green, A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution
- Caroline Moorhead, A House in the Mountains: The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism
- Thomas Penn, The Brothers York: An English Tragedy
- Roel Sterckx, Chinese Thought: From Confucius to Cook Ding
2021
The shortlist was announced on 14 October 2021 and the winner on 7 December.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Barbara Demick, Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town
- Chris Gosden, The History of Magic: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present
- Helen McCarthy, Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood
- Sinclair McKay, Dresden: The Fire and the Darkness
- Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire
- Ben Wilson, Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention
- Template:Blue ribbon Rebecca Wragg Sykes, Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
2022
The shortlist was announced on 7 October 2022.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Rebecca Birrell, This Dark Country: Women Artists, Still Life and Intimacy in the Early Twentieth Century
- Raphael Cormack, Midnight in Cairo: The Female Stars of Egypt's Roaring '20s — honourable mention<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Amitav Ghosh, The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
- Julie Kavanagh, The Irish Assassins: Conspiracy, Revenge and the Murders That Stunned an Empire
- Louis Menand, The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
- Ian Sanjay Patel, We're Here Because You Were There: Immigration and the End of Empire
- Template:Blue ribbon Francesca Stavrakopoulou, God: An Anatomy<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2023
The shortlist was announced on Thursday, November 2nd, 2023.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Aviah Sarah Day and Shanice Octavia McBean, Abolition Revolution (Pluto Press)
- Anna Della Subin, Accidental Gods: On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine (Granta)
- Calum Jacobs, A New Formation: How Black Footballers Shaped the Modern Game (Merky Books)
- Philippe Sands,The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy (Weidenfeld and Nicolson)
- Julieann Campbell,On Bloody Sunday: A New History of the Day and Its Aftermath by Those Who Were There (Monoray)
- Template:Blue ribbon Kojo Koram, Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire (John Murray Press)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2024
The shortlist was announced on 14 November 2024.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Caroline Dodds Pennock, On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe (W&N)
- Robert Gildea, Backbone of the Nation: Mining Communities and the Great Strike of 1984–85 (Yale University Press)
- Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany 1949–1990 (Allen Lane)
- Ian Rutledge, Sea of Troubles: The European Conquest of the Islamic Mediterranean and the Origins of the First World War (Saqi Books)
- Template:Blue ribbon Avi Shlaim, Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew (Oneworld) <ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Maria Smilios, The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis (Virago)
See also
References
External links
- https://www.englishpen.org/prizes/pen-hessell-tiltman-prize/ – Archive & History