Cundhill History Prize 2025 Longlist

The Cundill History Prize honours the abiding passion for history of its founder, F. Peter Cundill, by encouraging informed public debate through the wider dissemination of history writing to new audiences around the world and is awarded annually to the book that embodies historical scholarship, originality, literary quality and broad appeal. https://www.cundillprize.com/news/the-2025-cundill-history-prize-longlist

Updated September 30, 2025
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The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life
Rosenfeld, Sophia.
Paper Book
Finalist for the Cundill History Prize A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A sweeping history of the rise of personal choice in the modern world and how it became equated with freedom Choice touches virtually every aspect...
Summer of fire and blood : the German peasants' war
Roper, Lyndal
Paper Book
A Finalist for the Cundill Prize in History From a prize-winning historian, the definitive account of the sixteenth-century uprising that revolutionized Europe "Powerful." ―Wall Street Journal ...

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