Duff Cooper’s bookplate,
designed by Rex Whistler
The Duff Cooper Prize
Since 2005 we have been generously supported by
which donates the Champagne for the award presentation,
and contributes £1000 towards the £5,000 prize.
Past Winners
| 2010 | Sarah Bakewell | How to Live: A life of Montaigne |
| 2009 | Robert Service | Trotsky |
| 2008 | Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin | American Prometheus |
| 2007 | Graham Robb | The Discovery of France |
| 2006 | William Dalrymple | The Last Mughal |
| 2005 | Maya Jasanoff | Edge of Empire |
| 2004 | Mark Mazower | Salonica: City of Ghosts |
| 2003 | Anne Applebaum | Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps |
| 2002 | Jane Ridley | The Architect and his Wife: Edwin Lutyens |
| 2001 | Margaret Macmillan | Peacemakers |
| 2000 | Robert Skidelsky | John Maynard Keynes |
| 1999 | Adam Hochschild | King Leopold's Ghost |
| 1998 | Richard Holmes | Coleridge: Darker Reflections |
| 1997 | James Buchan | Frozen Desire |
| 1996 | Diarmaid MacCulloch | Cranmer |
| 1995 | Gitta Sereny | Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth |
| 1994 | David Gilmour | Curzon |
| 1993 | John Keegan | A History of Warfare |
| 1992 | Peter Hennessy | Never Again |
| 1991 | Ray Monk | Ludwig Wittgenstein |
| 1990 | Hugh and Mirabel Cecil | Clever Hearts |
| 1989 | Ian Gibson | Federico Garcia Lorca |
| 1988 | Humphrey Carpenter | The Life of Ezra Pound |
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