The Duff Cooper Prize is a prize which goes to the best work of history, biography, or political science published in English or French. The prize is worth £3,000. The prize was established in honour of Duff Cooper, a British diplomat, Cabinet member and acclaimed author.

Past Winners:

  • 2002 - Jane Ridley, The Architect and his Wife
  • 2001 - Margaret Macmillan, Peacemakers: The Paris Conference of 1919 and Its Attempts to End War
  • 2000 - Robert Skidelsky, John Maynard Keynes
  • 1999 - Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost
  • 1998 - Richard Holmes, Coleridge: Darker Reflections