Tim Blanning

3 weeks ago | fivebooks.com | Stephen Alford |Tim Blanning |Dan Jones |Adam Shatz

Perhaps you could begin by telling our readers about the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, and what the judges are looking for. The prize is now in its 22nd year. It was founded over two decades ago by Flora Fraser, the granddaughter of Elizabeth Longford, and by Flora’s then-husband Peter Soros. The idea was to celebrate and encourage the kind of historical biography that Elizabeth Longford wrote.