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The Runciman Award is an annual award offered by the Anglo-Hellenic League

Anglo-Hellenic League

The Anglo-Hellenic League is an organisation supporting and promoting Anglo-Greek relations and understanding. It was founded in 1913 in London and it carries out charitable and cultural work...

for a work published in English dealing wholly or in part with Greece

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

or Hellenism

Hellenism (Academia)

Academics who study ancient or modern Greece may be referred to as Hellenists, and thus the study of Greece may be referred to as Hellenism. This should not be confused with the use of Hellenism to mean the spread of Greek culture, nor to describe the neoclassic Hellenism movement....

. The award

Award

An award is something given to a person or a group of people to recognize excellence in a certain field; a certificate of excellence. Awards are often signifiedby trophies, titles, certificates, commemorative plaques, medals, badges, pins, or ribbons...

is named in honour of the late Sir Steven Runciman

Steven Runciman

The Hon. Sir James Cochran Stevenson Runciman CH — known as Steven Runciman — was a British historian known for his work on the Middle Ages...

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Previous winners have included Mark Mazower

Mark Mazower

Mark A. Mazower is a British historian. His expertise is Greece, the Balkans and, more generally, 20th century Europe. He is currently a professor of history at Columbia University in New York City.-Career:...

, Anthony Beevor, Richard Clogg

Richard Clogg

- Life :Richard Clogg studied history at the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated as Master in 1963. From 1969 on, he was teaching modern Greek history at King's College, London, first as lecturer, then reader, finally from 1988 to 1995 as professor of Balkan history...

and Bruce Clark

Bruce Clark (journalist)

Bruce Clark is currently the international security editor of The Economist, and notable as the author of Twice A Stranger: How Mass Expulsion Forged Modern Greece and Turkey...

Prizes awarded for books published in the UK in the previous year

Year	Name	Work	Editor
1986	David Constantine David Constantine David Constantine is a British poet and translator.Constantine is a Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford University, and a graduate of Wadham College, Oxford. He is co-editor of the literary journal Modern Poetry in Translation...	Travellers in Greece	Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge. Granted letters patent by Henry VIII in 1534, it is the world's oldest publishing house, and the second largest university press in the world...
1987	No award	-	-
1988	John S. Koliopoulos John S. Koliopoulos John S. Koliopoulos is a Greek historian, born in 1942.He is the author of Plundered loyalties : Axis occupation and civil strife in Greek West Macedonia, 1941-194, Brigands with a Cause and other books on Greek history, and co-author of Greece: A Modern Sequel with Thanos Veremis, Professor of...	Brigands with a Cause:Brigandage and Irredentism in Modern Greece, 1820-1921	Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Oxford University Press is the largest university press in the world. It is a department of the University of Oxford and is governed by a group of 15 academics appointed by the Vice-Chancellor known as the Delegates of the Press. They are headed by the Secretary to the Delegates, who serves as...
1989	Rowland J. Mainstone	Hagia Sophia: Architecture,Structure and Liturgy of Justinian’s Great Church	Thames and Hudson
1990	John Gould John Gould John Gould was an English ornithologist and bird artist. The Gould League in Australia was named after him. His identification of the birds now nicknamed "Darwin's finches" played a role in the inception of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection...	Herodotus	Weidenfeld & Nicolson Weidenfeld & Nicolson Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd is a British publisher of fiction and reference books. It is a division of the Orion Publishing Group.-History:...
1991	Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones Hugh Lloyd-Jones Sir Peter Hugh Jefferd Lloyd-Jones FBA was a British classical scholar and Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford....	The Academic Papers	Oxford University Press
1992	Mark Mazower Mark Mazower Mark A. Mazower is a British historian. His expertise is Greece, the Balkans and, more generally, 20th century Europe. He is currently a professor of history at Columbia University in New York City.-Career:...	Greece and the Inter-War Economic Crisis	Oxford University Press
1992	Antony Beevor Antony Beevor Antony James Beevor, FRSL is a British historian, educated at Winchester College and Sandhurst. He studied under the famous military historian John Keegan. Beevor is a former officer with the 11th Hussars who served in England and Germany for five years before resigning his commission...	Crete: the Battle and the Resistance	John Murray
1993	Richard Clogg Richard Clogg - Life :Richard Clogg studied history at the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated as Master in 1963. From 1969 on, he was teaching modern Greek history at King's College, London, first as lecturer, then reader, finally from 1988 to 1995 as professor of Balkan history...	A Concise History of Greece	Cambridge University Press
1994	Paul Magdalino	The Empire of Manuel I Komnenos, 1143-1180	Cambridge University Press
1995	Roderick Beaton	An Introduction to Modern Greek Literature	Oxford University Press
1996	Sir John Boardman John Boardman Jack Melton Boardman, commonly known as John Boardman, is an American former professor of physics at Brooklyn College.- Academic career :...	The Diffusion of Classical Art in Antiquity	Thames and Hudson
1996	Dr Rosemary Morris	Monks and Laymen in Byzantium, 843-1118	Cambridge University Press
1997	Andrew Dalby Andrew Dalby Andrew Dalby is an English linguist, translator and historian who has written articles and several books on a wide range of topics including food history, language, Classical texts, and Wikipedia.-Education and early career:...	Siren Feasts: A History of Food and Gastronomy in Greece	Routledge
1997	Oliver Rackham Oliver Rackham Oliver Rackham OBE is a Life Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He is also Keeper of theCollege Silver.An acknowledged authority on the British countryside, especially trees, woodlands and wood pasture, Rackham has written a number of well-known books, including The History of the... & Jennifer Moody Jennifer Moody Jennifer Alice Moody is an American archaeologist, and research fellow at University of Texas at Austin.She studies the archaeology, and environmental history of Crete.-Works:...	The Making of the Cretan Landscape	Manchester University Press
1997	Gelina Harlaftis	A History of Greek-owned Shipping: the Making of an International Tramp Fleet, 1830 to the present day	Routledge
1997	Nigel Spivey Nigel Spivey Nigel Jonathan Spivey is a British academic. He teaches classical art and archaeology at the University of Cambridge, where he is a Fellow of Emmanuel College...	Understanding Greek Sculpture:Ancient Meanings, Modern Readings	Thames and Hudson
1998	George Cawkwell	Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War	Routledge
1998	Dr Martin West Martin West Sir Martin West was born in England, the son of a civil servant in the Treasury.Martin West studied at Balliol College, Oxford, before joining the British East India Company...	The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth	Clarendon Press, Oxford
1998	Prof. Robin Cormack	Painting and the Soul: Icons, Death Masks and Shrouds	Reaktion Books
1998	Patricia Storace Patricia Storace -Life:She was raised in Mobile, Alabama, and graduated from Barnard College, and University of Cambridge. She lives in New York.Her work has appeared in the AGNI, Harper's, New York Review of Books, Los Angeles Times, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and the Arvon anthology edited by Ted Hughes and...	Dinner with Persephone	Granta Books
1999	Ian MacNiven	Lawrence Durrell: a Biography	Faber & Faber
1999	Christopher Stray	Classics Transformed: Schools, Universities and Society in England, 1830-1960	Clarendon Press, Oxford
1999	Dr Jenny March	Dictionary of Classical Mythology	Cassell
2000	Prof. J. V. Luce	Celebrating Homer’s Landscapes	Yale University Press
2000	Dr Reviel Netz	The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics: A Study in Cognitive History	Cambridge University Press
2001	Dr Cyprian Broodbank	An Island Archaeology of the Early Cyclades	Cambridge University Press
2002	James Whitley	The Archaeology of Ancient Greece	Cambridge University Press
2003	Sir John Boardman John Boardman Jack Melton Boardman, commonly known as John Boardman, is an American former professor of physics at Brooklyn College.- Academic career :...	The Archaeology of Nostalgia:How the Greeks re-created their Mythical Past	Thames and Hudson

from 2004 - Prizes are awarded for books published in the UK and Greece in the previous year

Year	Name	Work	Editor
2004	Roderick Beaton	George Seferis – Waiting for the Angel – A Biography	Yale University Press
2005	Mark Mazower	Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews	Harper Collins
2006	Robin Lane Fox	The Classical World	Time Warner Book Group
2006	Tom Holland	Persian Fire	Allen Lane
2007	Bruce Clark Bruce Clark (journalist) Bruce Clark is currently the international security editor of The Economist, and notable as the author of Twice A Stranger: How Mass Expulsion Forged Modern Greece and Turkey...	Twice a Stranger Twice A Stranger: How Mass Expulsion Forged Modern Greece and Turkey Twice A Stranger: How Mass Expulsion Forged Modern Greece and Turkey is a book by Bruce Clark published in 2006 concerning the population exchange between Greece and Turkey which took place in the early 1920s, following the Treaty of Lausanne....	Granta Books
2007	Robert Holland & Diana Markides	The British and the Hellenes	Oxford University Press
2008	Imogen Grundon	The Rash Adventurer: A Life of John Pendlebury	Libri Publications
2009	K.E. Fleming	Greece - A Jewish History	Princeton University Press
2010	Juliet du Boulay	Cosmos, Life and Liturgy in a Greek Orthodox Village	Denise Harvey Publishers
2011	Molly Greene	Catholic Pirates and Greek Merchants: A Maritime History of the Early Modern Mediterranean	Princeton University Press
2011	Emily Greenwood	Afro-Greeks: Dialogues Between Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Classics in the 20th Century	Oxford University Press

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