Jessie Childs' God's Traitors wins the 2015 PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for history
10 Apr 2015

The 2015 PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for history, has been awarded to Jessie Childs for God’s Traitors, published by Bodley Head. The annual prize, worth £2,000, celebrates the best non-fiction on a historical subject in any period up to the Second World War. It was judged this year by Tom Holland, who won the prize in 2004 for Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic; David Horspool, history editor of the TLS; and Ruth Scurr, lecturer in history and politics at Cambridge University.