
Award collection
Wolfson History Prize
48 recognized books, each paired with conversations featuring the author.

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Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe
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The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World
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View book & interviews ↗6 author interviewsFrom the archive

Augustine: Conversions to Confessions
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The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
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Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their Readers
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Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria – Hungary in World War I
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A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution
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National Service: A Generation in Uniform 1945-1963
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The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
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The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsars
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KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps
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The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief
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The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of History
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Silence of the Gods: The Untold History of Europe’s Last Pagan Peoples
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Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants’ War
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The Eagle and the Hart: The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV
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The Gravity of Feathers: Fame, Fortune and the Story of St Kilda
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The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective
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Multicultural Britain: A People’s History
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Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age
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Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade
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Vagabonds: Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London
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African and Caribbean People in Britain: A History
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Resistance: The Underground War Against Hitler, 1939-1945
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The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire
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The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe
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Devil-Land: England Under Siege, 1588-1688
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Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History
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A History of the Bible: The Story of the World’s Most Influential Book
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Atlantic Wars: From the Fifteenth Century to the Age of Revolution
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Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge
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Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood
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Survivors: Children’s Lives After the Holocaust
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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
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Cricket Country: An Indian Odyssey in the Age of Empire
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Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys into the Medieval World
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The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans
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Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation
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View book & interviews ↗6 author interviewsFrom the archive

Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice
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A Deadly Legacy: German Jews and the Great War
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