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Wolfson History Prize

The Wolfson History Prize is the UK’s most prestigious history writing prize. A key date in the literary calendar, it recognises outstanding works of historical non-fiction from the past year and is awarded annually to a work that combines excellence in historical research with readability for a general audience.

 

Now in its 52nd year, the Wolfson History Prize celebrates books that combine excellence in research with readability for a general audience, demonstrating the relevance of history and historical writing to society today. The most valuable history writing prize in the UK, the Wolfson History Prize awards a total of £75,000 with the winner receiving £50,000 and each of the five shortlisted authors receiving £5,000. Over £1.5 million has been awarded to more than 130 historians in the prize’s 52-year history. Previous winners include Simon Schama, Eric Hobsbawm, Amanda Vickery, Antony Beevor, Christopher Bayly, and Antonia Fraser.

 

Key 2024 dates: 

  • Wolfson History Prize Shortlist: Monday 23 September 2024
  • Wolfson History Prize Winner: Monday 2 December 2024

 

The prize is run and awarded by the Wolfson Foundation, an independent charity that awards grants in the fields of science, health, heritage, humanities and the arts.

 

To learn more about the Wolfson History Prize please visit www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk  or connect on Twitter via @WolfsonHistory / #WolfsonHistoryPrize.

Resistance: The Underground War in Europe, 1939-1945
Portable Magic: A History of Books and their Readers
Vagabonds: Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-century London – Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2023
The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe
African and Caribbean People in Britain: A History
A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution
The Interest: How the British Establishment Resisted the Abolition of Slavery
Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire - The Sunday Times Bestseller
Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain
Brunelleschi's Dome: The Story of the Great Cathedral in Florence
The Bookseller of Florence: Vespasiano da Bisticci and the Manuscripts that Illuminated the Renaissance
Never Had It So Good: A History of Britain from Suez to the Beatles
Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World
Blood and Ruins: The Great Imperial War, 1931-1945
The Third Reich at War: How the Nazis Led Germany from Conquest to Disaster
The Triumph of the Dark: European International History 1933-1939
Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990
1066 and All That
The Illustrated Natural History of Selborne
Capitalism and Slavery
Sensible Footwear: A Girl's Guide: A graphic guide to lesbian and queer history 1950-2020
Pandaemonium 1660–1886: The Coming of the Machine as Seen by Contemporary Observers
1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: Winner of the Baillie Gifford Winner of Winners Award 2023
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: With a foreword by David Olusoga
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Africa in History: Themes and Outlines
A People's History of England
Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain
The Music of Black Americans: A History
Painter to the King
The Viking Way: Magic and Mind in Late Iron Age Scandinavia
City of Gold and Mud: Painting Victorian London
The History of Charles XII. King of Sweden. by Mr. de Voltaire. Translated from the French. with a Complete Index
Making England Western: Occidentalism, Race, and Imperial Culture
Osebol: Voices from a Swedish Village
Dinner with Joseph Johnson - Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age
The Historian's Craft
Vermeer's Hat: The seventeenth century and the dawn of the global world
China and the True Jesus: Charisma and Organization in a Chinese Christian Church
The Compelling Ideal: Thought Reform and the Prison in China, 1901-1956
The Compensations of Plunder: How China Lost Its Treasures
Red at Heart: How Chinese Communists Fell in Love with the Russian Revolution
Herodotus: Histories, Books 5-9 (Herodoti Historiae: Libri V-IX)
Herodotus: Histories, Books 1-4 (Herodoti Historiae: Libri I-IV)
After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000
Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837
The Diary of Samuel Pepys: A Selection
Thomas Cromwell: The untold story of Henry VIII's most faithful servant, perfect for fans of WOLF HALL
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
Building Anglo-Saxon England
The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz – Costa Book of the Year 2019
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
Black and British: A Forgotten History
Medieval Women: Social History Of Women In England 450-1500
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
The West: A New History of an Old Idea
The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule
The Wife of Bath: A Biography
The Colosseum
Classical Art: From Greece to Rome
It's a Don's Life
The Parthenon
Civilisations: How Do We Look / The Eye of Faith
Classics: A Very Short Introduction
Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures and Innovations
Women & Power: A Manifesto
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town
Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern
Emperor of Rome: The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller
How the French Think: An Affectionate Portrait of an Intellectual People
The Legend Of Napoleon
Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture
The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs
The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World
Devil-Land: England Under Siege, 1588-1688
Going to Church in Medieval England
Fallen Idols: History is not erased when statues are pulled down. It is made.
Survivors: Children's Lives After the Holocaust
Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture
Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe
Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood
Burning the Books: RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK: A History of Knowledge Under Attack
Atlantic Wars: From the Fifteenth Century to the Age of Revolution
The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans
A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths
A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution
Cricket Country: An Indian Odyssey in the Age of Empire
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
Chaucer: A European Life
Building Anglo-Saxon England
Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice
Trading in War: London's Maritime World in the Age of Cook and Nelson
Birds in the Ancient World: Winged Words
Oscar: A Life
Empress: Queen Victoria and India
Out of China: How the Chinese Ended the Era of Western Domination
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
A Deadly Legacy: German Jews and the Great War
Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation
Black Tudors: The Untold Story
Heligoland: Britain, Germany, and the Struggle for the North Sea
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