/newsroom/taxonomy/term/8310/all en /newsroom/channels/news/british-historian-daniel-beer-wins-us75000-international-cundill-history-prize-282733 <p><span>The international Cundill History Prize today announced the British historian <strong>Daniel Beer</strong> as the 2017 winner of the US$75,000 prize – the richest in non-fiction for a single work in English. The London-based historian was awarded for his ground-breaking study of Siberian penal colonies, <em><strong>The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsars (Allen Lane)</strong></em></span></p> Thu, 16 Nov 2017 15:51:59 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 32676 at /newsroom