LISTEN to this dedicated winner's episode of CBC Ideas, with Camilla Townsend in conversation with host Nahlah Ayed and reading from her Cundill-winning Fifth Sun.
READ Camilla Townsend's interview with the Globe & Mail newspaper, alongside finalists Vincent Brown and William Dalrymple, also featuring extracts from all three books.
LISTEN to this Cundill-themed History Hit episode on Timeline, with Camilla Townsend and finalists Vincent Brown and William Dalrymple in conversation with host Dan Snow.
FESTIVAL REPLAY: 1
RE-WATCH the 2020 Winner Ceremony of the Cundill History Prize, in partnership with History Hit and hosted by Dan Snow, featuring Jury Chair Peter Frankopan and the three finalists.
FESTIVAL REPLAY: 2
RE-WATCH the Cundill Forum, with 2020 finalists Vincent Brown, William Dalrymple and Camilla Townsend in a fascinating conversation on 'Heroes, Villains and Victims and the Challenges of History'.
FESTIVAL REPLAY: 3
RE-WATCH Julia Lovell's stand-out Cundill Lecture on 'Writing Maoism as Global History', in partnership with History Extra.
LISTEN to Camilla Townsend on the podcast of our prize partner History Extra, and watch out for an interview on winning the prize and global history -- still to come.
READ about our virtual winner ceremony, Camilla Townsend's win, and the 2020 prize programme in this in-depth news piece over on Publishing Perspectives.
LISTEN to Camilla Townsend on BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking in a programme on 'Times of Change' – hosted by twice Cundill History Prize juror Rana Mitter.
Celebrate the 2020 Finalists with us
Vincent Brown
Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
Belknap Press at Harvard University Press
William Dalrymple
The Anarchy: the Relentless Rise of the East India Company
Bloomsbury Publishing
Camilla Townsend
Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
Oxford University Press USA
DISCOVER THE FINALISTS
The 2020 Cundill History Prize was brought to you in partnership with:
Peter Frankopan
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2020 Jury
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.
“This has been an extraordinary year for history writing, with some truly exceptional books that have changed how we look at the past. As we’ve all been learning during lockdown, making sense of the world around us has never been more important. I’m very excited by the outstanding panel that have agreed to judge the Cundill Prize this year – and to working with them to find the voices and ideas that have shown again why the study of history is so important.”
Peter Frankopan
