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)
