2025 Berger Prize Shortlist announced

The Walpole Society is delighted to present the shortlist for the 2025 Berger Prize.

The leading book prize for art history, the Berger Prize celebrates excellence in writing and scholarship on the arts and architecture of Britain. The prize is offered by the Walpole Society through the generosity of the Berger Collection Educational Trust. We are pleased to announce the following shortlisted titles:

Esther Chadwick

The Radical Print: Art and Politics in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain

Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre)

Bryony Coombs

Visual Arts and the Auld Alliance: Scotland, France and National Identity c.1420-1550

Edinburgh University Press

Cristina E. Martinez and Cynthia E. Roman

Female Printmakers, Printsellers and Print Publishers in the Eighteenth Century: The Imprint of Women, c.1700-1830

Cambridge University Press

Nicholas Olsberg

The Master Builder: William Butterfield and His Times

Lund Humphries

Eleonora Pistis

Architecture of Knowledge: Hawksmoor and Oxford

Brepols

Gavin Stamp

Interwar: British Architecture 1919-39

Profile Books

The winner will be announced on 12 November.