Carby's 'exceptional' history of British Empire scoops £25,000 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize

Hazel V Carby has won the British Academy’s £25,000 non-fiction book prize, the 8th Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding, for her book Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands (Verso). Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-27 17:56:20 UTC ]

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Dalrymple, Brown and Townsend named $75k Cundill History Prize finalists

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