Hessell-Tiltman Prize Winners

The Hessell-Tiltman prize of £2,000 is awarded annually for a non-fiction book of specifically historical content. Entrants are to be books of high li ...more

Winners

	God: An Anatomy by Francesca Stavrakopoulou 4.19 avg rating — 732 ratings Hessell-Tiltman Prize (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art by Rebecca Wragg Sykes (Goodreads Author) 4.02 avg rating — 2,491 ratings Hessell-Tiltman Prize (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge, and India's Quest for Independence by Anita Anand 4.21 avg rating — 1,387 ratings Hessell-Tiltman Prize (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books by Edward Wilson-Lee 3.67 avg rating — 982 ratings Hessell-Tiltman Prize (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928 by S.A. Smith 3.73 avg rating — 222 ratings Hessell-Tiltman Prize (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black and British: A Forgotten History by David Olusoga 4.61 avg rating — 3,503 ratings Hessell-Tiltman Prize (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The German War: A Nation Under Arms by Nicholas Stargardt 4.33 avg rating — 1,865 ratings Hessell-Tiltman Prize (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	God's Traitors: Terror & Faith in Elizabethan England by Jessie Childs (Goodreads Author) 3.89 avg rating — 285 ratings Hessell-Tiltman Prize (2015)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Long Shadow: The Legacies of the Great War in the Twentieth Century by David Reynolds 4.03 avg rating — 610 ratings Hessell-Tiltman Prize (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II by Keith Lowe 4.22 avg rating — 3,868 ratings Hessell-Tiltman Prize (2013)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick (Goodreads Author) 4.03 avg rating — 15,810 ratings Hessell-Tiltman Prize (2012)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt by Toby Wilkinson 4.12 avg rating — 4,444 ratings Hessell-Tiltman Prize (2011)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years by Diarmaid MacCulloch 4.12 avg rating — 5,876 ratings Hessell-Tiltman Prize (2010)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915 - 1919 by Mark Thompson 3.99 avg rating — 984 ratings Hessell-Tiltman Prize (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	That Neutral Island: A History of Ireland during the Second World War by Clair Wills 3.57 avg rating — 53 ratings Hessell-Tiltman Prize (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in Eighteenth-Century London by Vic Gatrell 4.18 avg rating — 143 ratings Hessell-Tiltman Prize (2007)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization by Bryan Ward-Perkins 4.01 avg rating — 1,770 ratings Hessell-Tiltman Prize (2006)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia by Richard Overy 4.20 avg rating — 974 ratings Hessell-Tiltman Prize (2005)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Boys' Crusade: The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944-45 by Paul Fussell 3.90 avg rating — 547 ratings Hessell-Tiltman Prize (2005)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic by Tom Holland 4.20 avg rating — 18,942 ratings Hessell-Tiltman Prize (2004)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World by Jenny Uglow 3.99 avg rating — 763 ratings Hessell-Tiltman Prize (2003)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Paris, 1919: Six Months that Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan 4.11 avg rating — 13,200 ratings Hessell-Tiltman Prize (2002)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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	We’re Here Because You Were There: Immigration and the End of Empire by Ian Sanjay Patel 4.03 avg rating — 31 ratings Hessell-Tiltman Prize Nominee (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War by Louis Menand 4.23 avg rating — 835 ratings Hessell-Tiltman Prize Nominee (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Irish Assassins: Conspiracy, Revenge and the Phoenix Park Murders that Stunned Victorian England by Julie Kavanagh 3.76 avg rating — 396 ratings Hessell-Tiltman Prize Nominee (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis by Amitav Ghosh 4.26 avg rating — 1,470 ratings Hessell-Tiltman Prize Nominee (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Midnight in Cairo: The Divas of Egypt's Roaring '20s by Raphael Cormack 3.98 avg rating — 257 ratings Hessell-Tiltman Prize Nominee (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Dark Country: Women Artists, Still Life and Intimacy in the Early Twentieth Century by Rebecca Birrell 4.23 avg rating — 57 ratings Hessell-Tiltman Prize Nominee (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention by Ben Wilson 4.15 avg rating — 1,546 ratings Hessell-Tiltman Prize Nominee (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire by Sujit Sivasundaram 3.41 avg rating — 68 ratings Hessell-Tiltman Prize Nominee (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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