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Australian historian wins Cundill History Prize

Monday, 3 November 2025    Books+Publishing
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Oxford University-based historian Lyndal Roper has won this year’s Cundill History Prize for Summer of Fire and Blood (John Murray), her history of the German Peasants’ War of the 1520s. Roper’s book was one of five shortlisted titles for the award in October. She receives prize money of US$75,000 (A$115,000),...

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