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Prof. Ignatieff said: “I’m a historian by training and like nothing better than history books that upend our understanding of the present. So it’s a wonderful opportunity to chair this year’s Cundill History Prize and go in search of great history writing that tells a compelling story, is grounded in world-class research and changes our understanding of the contemporary world.”
Belknap Press at Harvard University Press
Bloomsbury Publishing
Oxford University Press USA
The Cundill History Prize Festival
with two full days of events including:
The Cundill Lecture in History
delivered by 2019 winner Julia Lovell (Maoism)
in partnership with BBC HistoryExtra
Wednesday, December 2, 2020
1 p.m. ET / 6 p.m. GMT
The Cundill Forum
A special evening with the three finalists
in partnership with CBC Ideas
Wednesday, December 2, 2020
4.30 p.m. ET / 9.30 p.m. GMT
The 2020 Winner Announcement
in partnership with HistoryHit TV & the Timeline YouTube channel
Thursday, December 3, 2020
1 p.m. ET / 6 p.m. GMT
The Cundill History Prize is steering through one of the most challenging moments in recent world history with an exceptional international jury of prize-winning historians and journalists.
Peter Frankopan
Administered by McGill University in Montreal, the Cundill History Prize generously rewards the leading historians of our time, with US$75,000 going to the winner, and the two runners up each receiving a Recognition of Excellence Award, together with US$10,000. A distinguished jury is seeking the book that embodies historical scholarship, originality, literary quality and broad appeal. Previous winners include Thomas W. Laqueur, Susan Pedersen, Lisa Jardine, Anne Applebaum, and Diarmaid MacCulloch.
Find out more about the eminent historians judging the 2018 Cundill History Prize here.
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