1981 Winners

‘A Liberal Descent:

Victorian Historians and the English Past’

John Burrow

Cambridge University Press

For distinguished contribution to the writing of history:
Owen Chadwick

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Asa Briggs

Alan Bullock

John Plumb

John Gross

Keith Thomas

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