Camilla Townsend wins the 2020 Cundill History Prize for Fifth Sun

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News Archive: October 2017

October 26th 2017

Cundill History Prize feeds international debate with finalists on inequality, Vietnam and the terror of exile

The Cundill History Prize has announced a controversial thesis on inequality, a myth-shattering history of Vietnam, and a study of Siberian exile under the Tsars as finalists.

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October 20th 2017

Thomas J. Laqueur, winner of the 2016 Cundill History Prize, to give Cundill History Prize Lecture on November 15, 2017

Wednesday, November 15th at 5PM McGill University Faculty Club – Leo Yaffe Billiard Room 3450 McTavish Street, Montreal, QC

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