{"id":631,"date":"2017-09-20T14:00:27","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T18:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/?p=631"},"modified":"2020-06-11T09:19:14","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T13:19:14","slug":"new-fall-book-display-cundill-history-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/new-fall-book-display-cundill-history-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"New fall book display: Cundill History Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Humanities and Social Sciences Library has put together a book display of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cundillprize.com\/\">Cundill History Prize <\/a>winners, as well as titles that were longlisted for the Prize.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/files\/2017\/09\/Cundill-display-sign.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-632\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/files\/2017\/09\/Cundill-display-sign-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/files\/2017\/09\/Cundill-display-sign-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/files\/2017\/09\/Cundill-display-sign-768x593.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/files\/2017\/09\/Cundill-display-sign-388x300.jpg 388w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/files\/2017\/09\/Cundill-display-sign.jpg 792w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Administered by McGill University, the Cundill History Prize rewards the leading historians of our time. The nominated works embody historical scholarship, originality, literary quality, and broad appeal.<\/p>\n<p>The Prize is named after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cundillprize.com\/about\">McGill alumnus F. Peter Cundill<\/a> (1938\u20132011), who was a philanthropist, sportsman, diarist, and renowned global investor.<\/p>\n<p>The book display is located on the main floor on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/library\/branches\/hssl\">Humanities and Social Sciences Library<\/a>, in the Redpath Library building.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s longlist will be announced on September 26, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the Cundill Prize, please visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cundillprize.com\/\">https:\/\/www.cundillprize.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Humanities and Social Sciences Library has put together a book display of Cundill History Prize winners, as well as titles that were longlisted for the Prize. Administered by McGill University, the Cundill History Prize rewards the leading historians of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/new-fall-book-display-cundill-history-prize\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":921,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[25,23,24],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-displays","tag-book-display","tag-history","tag-prize"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/921"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":634,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions\/634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}