"Rebecca Clifford’s Survivors transforms our understanding of historical trauma and its impact on children. Beautifully written, intensively researched, unsentimental and profound, it makes an important contribution to our understanding of the Holocaust and its unending impact on those who survived it."
Michael Ignatieff, 2021 Chair of the Jury
On the Holocaust’s Impact on Survivors’ Early Childhood and Memory
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The Holocaust orphans
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Rebecca Clifford is Professor of Transnational European History, History Department, University of Durham, and author of Commemorating the Holocaust: The Dilemmas of Remembrance in France and Italy.
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“This is a book that takes a huge subject and still manages to say something new. It brings us an entirely new angle for thinking about the holocaust, and it does so in a way that is beautifully evidenced, documented and written.”
Sunil Khilnani, Juror
"Clifford pulls you into the story of these children’s lives and experiences so you begin to feel a connection with them, and she does so with a fluidity and skill which means the book stays with you for a long time after you’ve read it."
Jennifer L. Morgan, Juror
"Marie Favereau’s The Horde is a vividly written history on a vast canvas that enables us to see the Mongol conquerors of Asia and Europe through the eyes of the Mongols themselves. An amazing picture emerges of a mobile empire whose very flexibility, ability to integrate and work with alien peoples, accounts for their extraordinary historical impact."
Michael Ignatieff, 2021 Chair of the Jury
“Homes, Workshops, Palaces, Shrines.” On the Portability and Mobility of Hordes
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At home with the Mongols
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Marie Favereau is Associate Professor of History at Paris Nanterre University. She has been a member of the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology, a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study, and a research associate at Oxford University for the major project Nomadic Empires. Her books include La Horde d’Or et le sultanat mamelouk and the graphic novel Gengis Khan.
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"This is a book with absolutely amazing scholarship, across a whole range of central Asian languages. It is spectacular in terms of the wide range of its source material, and of actually going to the original sources and seeing how people spoke at the time and what they really cared about."
Henrietta Harrison, Juror
"Favereau shows that this was a very sophisticated empire that was interested in trade, exchange, and in cultivating an area of peace where people could prosper. I found this book totally transformed my sense of Central Asia, and the impact of the Mongol empire on different parts of the world."
Sunil Khilnani, Juror
"Marjoleine Kars is a marvellous writer and scholar, using untapped sources to breathe life into both the oppressors and the oppressed in a colony built on slavery and savage violence. In Blood on the River she presents us with a quite unforgettable narrative."
Michael Ignatieff, 2021 Chair of the Jury
“More Than a Fearful Refusal To Participate.“ On the Complexities of the 1763 Berbice Slave Rebellion
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Berbice: a slave rebellion that nearly succeeded
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Marjoleine Kars is a professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. A noted historian of slavery, she is the author of Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast (The New Press) and Breaking Loose Together. She lives in Washington, DC.
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"This is, above all, an incredibly deep dive into a very rich archive that can then tell us huge amounts about those people and what their lives were like, and it’s that ability to get really close to people that gives it the sense of narrative drive and the sense of the individual characters."
Henrietta Harrison, Juror
"This book is a major contribution to our understanding of the racial history of the Western Hemisphere, and it helps us understand the deep roots of the resistance movements that we see today."
Eric Foner, Juror
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The 2021 Cundill Lecture in History
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