Duff Cooper’s bookplate,
designed by Rex Whistler
Since 2005 we have been generously supported by
which donates the Champagne for the award presentation,
and contributes £1000 towards the £5,000 prize.
1980 | Robert Bernard Martin | Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart |
1979 | Geoffrey Hill | Tenebrae |
1978 | Mark Girouard | Life in the English Country House |
1977 | E.R. Dodds | Missing Persons |
1976 | Denis Mack Smith | Mussolini's Roman Empire |
1975 | Seamus Heaney | North |
1974 | Jon Stallworthy | Wilfred Owen |
1973 | Robin Lane Fox | Alexander the Great |
1972 | Quentin Bell | Virginia Woolf |
1971 | Geoffrey Grigson | Discoveries of Bones and Stones |
1970 | Enid McLeod | Charles of Orleans |
1969 | John Gross | The Man of Letters |
1968 | Roy Fuller | New Poems |
1967 | J.A. Baker | The Peregrine |
1966 | Nirad C.Chaudhuri | The Continent of Circe |
1965 | George Painter | Marcel Proust |
1964 | Ivan Morris | The Wolrd of the Shining Prince |
1963 | Aileen Ward | John Keats |
1962 | Michael Howard | The Franco-Prussian War |
1961 | Jocelyn Baines | Joseph Conrad |
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