Wolfson History Prize 2023

The Wolfson History Prize is a prestigious award recognizing exceptional historical writing that deepens our understanding of the past. It celebrates authors who shed new light on pivotal historical moments and figures, contributing to the enrichment of our collective knowledge of history.

Winner

Resistance: The Underground War Against Hitler 1939-1945

Halik Kochanski


Finalists

The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe

James Belich


Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their Readers

Emma Smith


African and Caribbean People in Britain: A History

Hakim Adi


The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire

Henrietta Harrison


Vagabonds: Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century Lond

Oskar Jensen


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