Wolfson History Prize 2023: See the Winner and Finalists
The winner of this year's Wolfson History Prize has just been announced. The prestigious prize recognizes and celebrates books which combine excellence in research with readability. The winner is an important account of how people in Nazi-occupied Europe resisted the Third Reich. This year's shortlist also transported history buffs from the Qing dynasty to the streets of 19th-century London. Note: one shortlisted book, "African and Caribbean People in Britain" by Hakim Adi is not currently available on Tertulia.
5 books
Winner
Los Angeles Review of Books & Stephanie Zacharek
Resistance: The Underground War Against Hitler, 1939-1945
Halik Kochanski"Filled with powerful and often little-known stories, Kochanski’s book is a fascinating examination of the convoluted challenges faced by those prepared to resist the Germans, ordinary people who carried out exceptional acts of defiance."
Los Angeles Review of Books & Stephanie ZacharekHardcover, 2022
$45.00$22.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Shortlisted
Vagabonds: Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London
Oskar Jensen"Until now, our view of bustling late Georgian and Victorian London has been filtered through its great chroniclers, who did not themselves come from poverty – Dickens, Mayhew, Gustave Doré. Their visions were dazzling in their way, censorious, often theatrical. Now, for the first time, this innovative social history brilliantly – and radically – shows us the city’s most compelling period (1780–1870) at street level."
Paperback, 2024
$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Shortlisted
Los Angeles Review of Books & National Book Critics Circle
Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their Readers
Emma Smith"Portable Magic unfurls an exciting and iconoclastic new story of the book in human hands, exploring when, why and how it acquired its particular hold over us. Gathering together a millennium’s worth of pivotal encounters with volumes big and small, Smith reveals that, as much as their contents, it is books’ physical form – their ‘bookhood’ – that lends them their distinctive and sometimes dangerous magic."
Los Angeles Review of Books & National Book Critics CircleHardcover, 2022
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Shortlisted
The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe
James Belich"James Belich takes readers across centuries and continents to shed new light on one of history’s greatest paradoxes. Why did Europe’s dramatic rise begin in the wake of the Black Death?"
Hardcover, 2022
$55.00$30.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Shortlisted
Andrew Keen & History Today
The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators Between Qing China and the British Empire
Henrietta Harrison"The 1793 British embassy to China, which led to Lord George Macartney’s fraught encounter with the Qianlong emperor, has often been viewed as a clash of cultures fueled by the East’s lack of interest in the West..Harrison presents a more nuanced picture, ingeniously shifting the historical lens to focus on Macartney’s two interpreters at that meeting—Li Zibiao and George Thomas Staunton."
Andrew Keen & History TodayPaperback, 2023
$21.95$10.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
