The Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Awards for Non-Fiction are financial awards made to assist new writers of non-fiction to carry out new research, to devote more time to writing.
The award is administrated by the Royal Society of Literature

Royal Society of Literature

The Royal Society of Literature is the "senior literary organisation in Britain". It was founded in 1820 by George IV, in order to "reward literary merit and excite literary talent". The Society's first president was Thomas Burgess, who later became the Bishop of Salisbury...

 on behalf of the Jerwood Charitable Foundation

Jerwood Foundation

The Jerwood Foundation is a major United Kingdom funder of arts, education, and science.The foundation is particularly noted in the arts for establishing the Jerwood Charitable Foundation and associated projects such as the Jerwood Space for dance and exhibitions, the Jerwood Painting Prize, the...

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Recipients must have a publishing contract and be citizens of either the UK or Ireland, or have been residents in one of these for at least the last three years.

2008

• Rachel Hewitt for Map of a Nation, Granta (£10k)
• Matthew Hollis for Edward Thomas:The Final Years, Faber (£5k)
• Paul Farley
  Paul Farley
  Paul Farley is an award-winning English poet. He studied painting at the Chelsea School of Art, and has lived in London, Brighton and Cumbria...
  
   and Michael Symmons Roberts
  Michael Symmons Roberts
  Michael Symmons Roberts is a British poet. He has published five collections of poetry, all with Cape , and has won the Whitbread Poetry Award, as well as major prizes from the Arts Council and Society of Authors. He has been shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize twice, the Griffin International...
  
   for Edgelands – Journeys into England’s Last Wilderness, Cape (£2.5k each)

2007

• Andrew Stott for The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi, Canongate (£10k)
• Rachel Campbell-Johnston
  Rachel Campbell-Johnston
  Rachel Campbell-Johnston is The Times newspaper's chief art critic.Appointed to her post in 2002, she has also been her newspaper's poetry editor, leader writer, deputy comment editor, obituary writer and deputy books editor....
  
   for Life of Samuel Palmer, Bloomsbury (£5k)
• Daniel Swift for A Terrible Fury, Hamish Hamilton (£5k)

2006

• Carolyn Steel for Hungry City, Chatto (£10k)
• Sarah Irving for Natural Science and the Origins of British Empire, Pickering & Chatto (£5k)
• Thomas Wright
  Thomas Wright
  Thomas Wright was an English antiquarian and writer.-Life:Wright was born near Ludlow, in Shropshire, descended from a Quaker family formerly living at Bradford, Yorkshire...
  
   for Oscar’s Books, Chatto (£5k)

2005

• Alice Albinia
  Alice Albinia
  Alice Albinia is a journalist and author whose first book, Empires of the Indus, won several awards.Alice read English Literature at Cambridge and South Asian History at SOAS...
  
   for Empires of the Indus
  Empires of the Indus
  Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River is a non-fiction book by Alice Albinia that covers the writer's journey from Karachi to Tibet, which is the natural course of the Indus River. The book gives an insight into the communities as well as the political framework of the countries through which...
  
  , John Murray (£12,500)
• Christopher Turner for Adventures in the Orgasmatron, Fourth Estate (£10k)
• Druin Birch for Digging Up the Dead, Chatto (£5k)
• Matthew Green
  Matthew Green (journalist)
  Matthew Green is a British journalist and author. He studied African politics at university and spent five years on the ground in East Africa reporting for Reuters...
  
   for The Wizard of the Nile, Portobello (£5k)

2004

• Jim Endersby for A Guinea Pig’s History of Biology, Heinemann (£10k)
• Roland Chambers for The Last Englishman – The Double Life of Arthur Ransome, Faber (£5k)
• John Stubbs for Reformed Soul - the Life of John Donne, Viking (£5k)