# Wolfson History Prize

Il Wolfson History Prize è un premio letterario.
Istituito nel 1972 dalla Wolfson Foundation e formalmente noto col nome di Wolfson Literary Awards, è un premio letterario assegnato annualmente ad opere per il grande pubblico che promuovono e incoraggiano standard di eccellenza in ambito storico.
Le opere considerate per il premio devono essere state pubblicate in Gran Bretagna e gli autori avere cittadinanza britannica al momento dell'assegnazione.

## Lista Vincitori

* 2024 Joya Chatterji, Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century (Vintage)
* 2023 Halik Kochanski, Resistance: The Underground War in Europe, 1939-1945 (W. W. Norton & Company)
* 2022 Clare Jackson, Devil-Land: England Under Siege, 1588-1688 (Allen Lane)
* 2021 Sudhir Hazareesingh, Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture (Allen Lane)
* 2020 David Abulafia, The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans (Allen Lane)
* 2019 Mary Fulbrook, Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice (Oxford University Press)
* 2018 Peter Marshall, Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation (Yale University Press)
* 2017 Christopher de Hamel, Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts (Allen Lane)
* 2016 Robin Lane Fox, Augustine: Conversions and Confessions (Basic Books) Nikolaus Wachsmann, KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps (Little, Brown)
* 2015 Richard Vinen, National Service: Conscription in Britain, 1945–1963 (Allen Lane, Penguin Books) Alexander Watson, Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary at War, 1914–1918 (Allen Lane, Penguin Books)
* 2014 Cyprian Broodbank, The Making of the Middle Sea (Thames & Hudson) Catherine Merridale, Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia's History (Allen Lane, Penguin Books)
* 2013 Christopher Duggan, Fascist Voices: An Intimate History of Mussolini’s Italy (Boydell Press) Susan Brigden, Thomas Wyatt: The Heart’s Forest (Faber & Faber)
* 2012 Susie Harries, Nikolaus Pevsner: The Life (Chatto & Windus) Alexandra Walsham, The Reformation of the Landscape (Oxford University Press)
* 2011 Susie Harries, Nikolaus Pevsner: The Life (Chatto & Windus) Alexandra Walsham The Reformation of the Landscape (Oxford University Press)
* 2010 Ruth Harris, The Man on Devil's Island: The Affair that Divided France (Allen Lane: Penguin Press) Nicholas Thomas Islanders: The Pacific in the Age of Empire (Yale University Press)
* 2009 Dominic Lieven, Russia Against Napoleon: The Battle for Europe, 1807–1814 (Allen Lane: Penguin Press) Jonathan Sumption Divided Houses: The Hundred Years War (Vol. 3) (Faber & Faber)
* 2008 Mary Beard, Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town (Profile Books) Margaret M. McGowan, Dance in the Renaissance: European Fashion, French Obsession (Yale University Press)
* 2007 John Darwin, After Tamerlane: The Global Story of Empire (Allen Lane) Rosemary Hill God's Architect: Pugin & the Building of Romantic Britain (Allen Lane)
* 2006 Adam Tooze, The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy (Allen Lane: Penguin Press) Christopher Clark Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947 (Allen Lane: Penguin Press) Vic Gatrell City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in Eighteenth-Century London (Atlantic Books)
* 2005 Evelyn Welch, Shopping in the Renaissance (Yale University Press) Christopher Wickham Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800 (Oxford University Press)
* 2004 David Reynolds, In Command of History: Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War (Allen Lane: Penguin Press) Richard Overy The Dictators: Hitler's Germany; Stalin's Russia (Allen Lane: Penguin Press)
* 2003 Diarmaid MacCulloch, Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490-1700 (Allen Lane: Penguin Press) Frances Harris Transformations of Love: The Friendship of John Evelyn and Margaret Godolphin (Oxford University Press) Julian T. Jackson The Fall of France: The Nazi Invasion of 1940 (Oxford University Press)
* 2002 Robert Gildea, Marianne in Chains: In Search of the German Occupation (Macmillan) William Dalrymple White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-century India (HarperCollins)
* 2001 Barry Cunliffe, Facing the Ocean: The Atlantic and Its Peoples (Oxford University Press) Jerry White London in the 20th Century: A City and Its Peoples (Viking)
* 2000 Ian Kershaw, Hitler, 1936–1945: Nemesis (Allen Lane) Mark Mazower The Balkans (Weidenfeld & Nicholson) Roy Porter Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World (Allen Lane)
* 1999 Andrew Roberts, Salisbury: Victorian Titan (Weidenfeld & Nicholson) Joanna Bourke An Intimate History of Killing (Granta Books)
* 1998 Antony Beevor, Stalingrad (Viking) Amanda Vickery The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England (Yale University Press)
* 1997 John Brewer, Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century (HarperCollins) Patricia Hollis Jennie Lee: A Life (Oxford University Press)
* 1996 Orlando Figes, A People's Tragedy: A History of the Russian Revolution (Jonathan Cape)
* 1995 H.C.G. Matthew, Gladstone 1875–1898 (Oxford University Press)
* 1994 Fiona MacCarthy, William Morris: A Life for Our Time (Faber & Faber) John C. G. Rohl The Kaiser and His Court: Wilhelm II and the Government of Germany (Cambridge University Press)
* 1993 Barbara Harvey, Living and Dying in England, 1100–1540: The Monastic Experience (Oxford University Press) Robert Bartlett The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change, 950–1350 (Viking)
* 1992 Robert Skidelsky, John Maynard Keynes: The Economist as Saviour, 1920–1937 (Pan Macmillan) Linda Colley Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837 (Yale University Press)
* 1991 Alan Bullock, Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives (Harper Collins) John Bossy Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair (Yale University Press)
* 1990 Colin Platt, The Architecture of Medieval Britain: A Social History (Yale University Press)
* 1989 Donald Cameron Watt, How War Came: The Immediate Origins of the Second World War, 1938–1939 (William Heinemann) Richard A. Fletcher The Quest for El Cid (Huchinson)
* 1988 Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 To 2000 (Unwin Hyman) Richard Evans Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years, 1830–1910 (Oxford University Press)
* 1987 R. R. Davies, Conquest, Coexistence, and Change: Wales, 1063–1415 (Oxford University Press) John Pemble The Mediterranean Passion: Victorians And Edwardians in the South (Oxford University Press)
* 1986 J.H. Elliott, The Count-Duke Of Olivares: The Statesman In An Age Of Decline (Yale University Press) Jonathan Israel European Jewry in the Age of Mercantilism, 1550–1750 (Oxford University Press)
* 1985 John Grigg, Lloyd George, From Peace To War 1912–1916 (Methuen) Richard Davenport-Hines Dudley Docker: The Life and Times of a Trade Warrior (Cambridge University Press)
* 1984 Antonia Fraser, The Weaker Vessel (Weidenfeld & Nicholson) Maurice Keen Chivalry (Yale University Press)
* 1983 Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill: Finest Hour, 1939–1941 (Heinemann) Kenneth Rose George V (Weidenfeld & Nicholson)
* 1982 John McManners, Death and the Enlightenment: Changing Attitudes to Death Among Christians and Unbelievers in Eighteenth-Century France (Oxford University Press)
* 1981 John Wyon Burrow, A Liberal Descent: Victorian Historians and the English Past (Cambridge University Press)
* 1980 F.S.L. Lyons, Culture and Anarchy in Ireland, 1890–1939 (Oxford University Press) Robert Evans, The Making of the Habsburg Monarchy, 1550–1700: An Interpretation (Oxford University Press)
* 1979 Richard Cobb, Death in Paris: The Records of the Basse-Geôle de la Seine, October 1795 – September 1801, Vendémiaire Year IV-Fructidor Year IX (Oxford University Press) Mary Soames, Clementine Churchill: The Biography of a Marriage (Cassell) Quentin Skinner The Foundations of Modern Political Thought (Cambridge University Press)
* 1978 Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace : Algeria, 1954–1962 (Macmillan)
* 1977 Denis Mack Smith, Mussolini's Roman Empire (Longman & Co) Simon Schama Patriots and Liberators: Revolution in the Netherlands 1780–1813 (Collins)
* 1976 Nikolaus Pevsner, A History of Building Types (Thames & Hudson) Norman Stone The Eastern Front: 1914–17 (Hodder & Stoughton)
* 1975 Frances Donaldson, Edward VIII (Weidenfeld & Nicholson) Olwen Hufton The Poor of Eighteenth-century France 1750–1789 (Oxford University Press)
* 1974 Moses Finley, The Ancient Economy (Chatto & Windus) Theodore Zeldin France, 1848–1945: Ambition, Love and Politics (Oxford University Press)
* 1973 Frances Yates, The Rosicrucian Enlightenment (Routledge & Keegan Paul) W.L. Warren Henry II (Eyre & Spottiswoode)
* 1972 Michael Howard, The Grand Strategy: August 1942 – September 1943 (Her Majesty's Stationery Office) Keith Thomas Religion and the Decline of Magic (Weidenfeld & Nicholson)