Wolfson History Prize Winners

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Winners

	Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century by Joya Chatterji 4.23 avg rating — 124 ratings Wolfson History Prize (2024)	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
	Resistance: The Underground War Against Hitler, 1939-1945 by Halik Kochanski 4.07 avg rating — 269 ratings Wolfson History Prize (2023)	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
	Devil-Land: England Under Siege, 1588-1688 by Clare Jackson 3.82 avg rating — 417 ratings Wolfson History 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
	Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture by Sudhir Hazareesingh 3.86 avg rating — 1,005 ratings Wolfson History 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 Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans by David Abulafia 4.26 avg rating — 816 ratings Wolfson History 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
	Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution by Mary Fulbrook 4.36 avg rating — 105 ratings Wolfson History 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
	Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation by Peter Marshall 4.24 avg rating — 313 ratings Wolfson History 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
	Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts by Christopher de Hamel 4.43 avg rating — 1,570 ratings Wolfson History 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
	KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps by Nikolaus Wachsmann 4.55 avg rating — 2,104 ratings Wolfson History 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
	Augustine: Conversions to Confessions by Robin Lane Fox 3.81 avg rating — 261 ratings Wolfson History 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
	Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I by Alexander Watson (Goodreads Author) 4.36 avg rating — 970 ratings Wolfson History 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
	National Service: Conscription in Britain, 1945-1963 by Richard Vinen 3.86 avg rating — 57 ratings Wolfson History 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
	Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia's History by Catherine Merridale 3.87 avg rating — 571 ratings Wolfson History 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
	The Making of the Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean from the Beginning to the Emergence of the Classical World by Cyprian Broodbank 4.23 avg rating — 176 ratings Wolfson History 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
	Thomas Wyatt: The Heart's Forest by Susan Brigden 4.14 avg rating — 36 ratings Wolfson History 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
	Fascist Voices: An Intimate History of Mussolini's Italy by Christopher Duggan 4.13 avg rating — 177 ratings Wolfson History 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 Reformation of the Landscape: Religion, Identity, and Memory in Early Modern Britain and Ireland by Alexandra Walsham 4.38 avg rating — 34 ratings Wolfson History 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
	Nikolaus Pevsner: The Life by Susie Harries 4.40 avg rating — 25 ratings Wolfson History 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
	Islanders: The Pacific in the Age of Empire by Nicholas Thomas 3.41 avg rating — 54 ratings Wolfson History 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
	Dreyfus: Politics, Emotion, and the Scandal of the Century by Ruth Harris 3.83 avg rating — 220 ratings Wolfson History 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
	Divided Houses: The Hundred Years War, Volume 3 by Jonathan Sumption 4.62 avg rating — 264 ratings Wolfson History 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
	Russia Against Napoleon: The Battle for Europe, 1807 to 1814 by Dominic Lieven 4.13 avg rating — 1,072 ratings Wolfson History 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
	Dance in the Renaissance: European Fashion, French Obsession by Margaret M. McGowan 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings Wolfson History 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
	The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found by Mary Beard 4.10 avg rating — 5,253 ratings Wolfson History 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
	God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain by Rosemary Hill 4.17 avg rating — 105 ratings Wolfson History 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
	After Tamerlane: The Global History of Empire Since 1405 by John Darwin 4.01 avg rating — 1,460 ratings Wolfson History 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 4.17 avg rating — 156 ratings Wolfson History 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
	Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947 by Christopher Clark 4.16 avg rating — 5,345 ratings Wolfson History 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 Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy by Adam Tooze 4.53 avg rating — 2,967 ratings Wolfson History 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
	Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800 by Chris Wickham 4.35 avg rating — 180 ratings Wolfson History 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