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August 9th 2021
Eight months on from winning the 2020 Cundill History Prize, Fifth Sun author Camilla Townsend describes her experience and shares what she has been reading and working on since.
November 27th 2020
The three 2020 Cundill History Prize finalists shared their take on history's contemporary significance with prize coordinator Mackenzie Bleho, who here distils their answers
November 3rd 2020
Christienna Fryar convenes the first MA in Black British History in the UK. Why have history departments in Britain been such inhospitable places for this study to flourish?
October 16th 2020
The ten authors on the 2020 Cundill History Prize shortlist discuss books that have touched them, in an article compiled by prize coordinator Mackenzie Bleho.
October 1st 2020
The 2018 Cundill History Prize finalist Sam White revisits a moment in time when a changing climate and the spread of infectious disease have collided before.
August 3rd 2020
Jason Opal, Chair of the Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill, on the challenges of continuing the discipline of history through the pandemic.
November 22nd 2019
Twice Pulitzer Prize winner Alan Taylor, our 2019 Chair of the Jury, on why serving on the Cundill History Prize jury has been one of the most rewarding experiences of his career.
November 13th 2019
The Cundill History Prize is both Canadian and global — that is its great strength, writes leading historian Margaret MacMillan.
September 20th 2019
HistoryExtra's David Musgrove on a very worthy 2019 Cundill History Prize shortlist, and why he is delighted to be partnering with the Cundill History Prize.
Camilla Townsend on winning the Cundill History Prize
Seeing the present through history's eyes
Rethinking the foundations of British history
Reading Towards History: The Books Behind The Authors
We do not get to choose our disasters one at a time
History in the Covid era: A View from McGill
International — in a very Canadian way
Leading the charge in bringing the past to the public
An exhilarating, absorbing trek