At a ceremony at the Reform Club on Friday 15 November, broadcaster Andrew Marr presented the 2024 Berger Prize to:
Tom Young
Unmaking the East India Company: British Art and Political Reform in Colonial India, c.1813–1858
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
This revelatory book explores how the visual culture of members of the East India Company prompted significant structural change, nimbly traversing the complex world of post-colonial scholarship. for a modern audience. It explores fresh material from a compelling new angle, charting the ways in which new artistic forms and practices presaged shifts in the governance of the Company and its relationship with the people it governed. Further details about the book can be found on the publisher's website.
Broadcaster Andrew Marr announces the winner of the 2024 Berger Prize at the Reform Club on 15 November.
Dr Tom Young is a Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Art Histories at the Courtauld Institute of Art. He joined the Courtauld in 2023 after holding posts as Leverhulme Fellow at the University of Warwick, project curator of the British Museum’s exhibition Tantra: Enlightenment to Revolution, curator at Lakeland Arts, and lecturer at the University of Warsaw. He has also held fellowships at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence, the Huntington Library, and the Yale Center for British Art. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2023, and a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society in 2024.
L-R: Alicia Foster, shortlisted author, Cindy Hayes, trustee of the BCET, Katherine Berger, chairwoman of the BCET, Jonny Yarker, chairman of the judges panel, Steven Brindle, shortlisted author, Tom Young, 2024 Berger Prizewinner, Alun Graves, shortlisted author, Laura Freeman, shortlisted author, Andrew Marr, broadcaster and presenter of 2024 Berger Prize, Clare Hornsby, Chairwoman of the Walpole Society.