Awards

Book awards:

Laurence won the History Book of the Year Award at the British Book Awards in 2006 for Auschwitz: The Nazis & the ‘Final Solution’

 

 

Television awards:

Emmy award

British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award (BAFTA)

George Foster Peabody Award

BANFF festival award

2 International Documentary Awards

Broadcasting Press Guild Award

Grierson Award

Historical Film of the Year (History Today)

Televisual ‘Bulldog’ Award for the best of British television

In New York in January 2009, Laurence was presented with the ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ by ‘History Makers’, the worldwide congress of History and Current Affairs programme makers.

 

Other honours:

 In 2005 Laurence was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University  of Sheffield