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From The Walpole Society:

Berger Prize 2025 Longlist

The longlist of eighteen titles for the 2025 Berger Prize was announced on July 9 at the Walpole Society Summer Party, held at the Warburg Institute. The chair of the judging panel, Dr Jonny Yarker, noted that this year’s prize received its highest ever number of submissions, from a wide range of publishers. The shortlist is scheduled to be announced September 16. The winner and prize ceremony is scheduled for November 12. The overall winner will receive £5000, while the five other shortlisted books will each receive £500.

• Fay Blanchard and Anthony Spira, eds., Vanessa Bell: A World of Form and Colour (Philip Wilson Publishers).

• Rosie Broadley, ed., Francis Bacon: Human Presence (National Portrait Gallery).

• Bruce Boucher, John Soane’s Cabinet of Curiosities: Reflections on an Architect and his Collection (Yale University Press).

• Esther Chadwick, The Radical Print: Art and Politics in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain (Paul Mellon Centre).

• Bryony Coombs, Visual Arts and the Auld Alliance: Scotland, France and National Identity c.1420–1550 (Edinburgh University Press).

• Paul Gough, Gilbert Spencer: The Life and Work of a Very English Artist (Yale University Press).

• Bendor Grosvenor, The Invention of British Art (Elliott & Thompson).

• Elain Harwood and Alan Powers, eds., Ernö Goldfinger (Liverpool University Press).

• Mark Laird, The Dominion of Flowers: Botanical Art & Global Plant Relations (Paul Mellon Centre​).

• Cristina S. Martinez and Cynthia E. Roman, eds., Female Printmakers, Printsellers and Publishers in the Eighteenth Century: The Imprint of Women 1735–1830 (Cambridge University Press).

• Nicholas Olsberg, The Master Builder: William Butterfield and His Times (Lund Humphries).

• Madeleine Pelling, Writing on the Wall: Graffiti and Rebellion in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Profile Books).

• Eleonora Pistis, Architecture of Knowledge: Hawksmoor and Oxford (Brepols).

• Dorothy Price, Esther Chadwick, Cora Gilroy-Ware, and Sarah Lea, Entangled Pasts, 1768–Now: Art, Colonialism and Change (Royal Academy of Arts).

• Natalie Prizel, Victorian Ethical Optics: Innocent Eyes and Aberrant Bodies (Oxford University Press).

• Jeff Rosen, Julia Margaret Cameron: The Colonial Shadows of Victorian Photography (Paul Mellon Centre).

• Fiona Smyth, Pistols in St Paul’s: Science, Music, and Architecture in the Twentieth Century (Manchester University Press).

• Gavin Stamp, Interwar British Architecture 1919–39 (Profile Books).