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Past recipients of the RSL/Jerwood Prize

Alice Albinia — recipient of the 2005 £12,500 additional award Empires of the Indus (John Murray, 2007)

£10,000 prizes

Carolyn Steel: Hungry City (Chatto & Windus)

Christopher Turner: Adventures in the Orgasmatron: How Renegade Europeans Conceived the American Sexual Revolution and Gave Birth to the Permissive Society (Fourth Estate, 2007)

Jim Endersby: A Guinea Pig’s History of Biology: The Animals and Plants that Taught Us the Facts of Life (Heinemann, 2007)

£5,000 prizes

Sarah Irving: Natural Science and the Origins of the British Empire (Pickering and Chatto)

Thomas Wright: Oscar’s Books (Chatto & Windus)

Druin Burch: Digging Up the Dead (Chatto & Windus, 2007)

Matthew Green: The War the World Forgot: Colonel Kony, Child Killers and Twenty Years of Bloodshed on the White Nile (Portobello, 2007)

Roland Chambers: The Fool of the World — Swallows, Amazons and Trotsky (Faber, 2006)

John Stubbs: The Island — A Life of John Donne (Viking, 2006)

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