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Wolfson History Prize 2018

The 2018 Wolfson History Prize went to Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation by Peter Marshall. 6 books made the shortlist.

Winner

  1. Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformationsource (opens in a new tab)

Shortlist

  1. A Deadly Legacy: German Jews and the Great Warsource (opens in a new tab)
  2. Black Tudors: The Untold Storysource (opens in a new tab)
  3. Heligoland: Britain, Germany and the Struggle for the North Seasource (opens in a new tab)
  4. Out of China: How the Chinese Ended the Era of Western Dominationsource (opens in a new tab)
  5. The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicinesource (opens in a new tab)

About the Wolfson History Prize

Covers the Wolfson History Prize 2006-2025 from the prize's own past-winners pages (wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk, one page per year). Year is the prize year as the Wolfson Foundation labels it; since 1987 prizes for a competition year are awarded the following year, and the site labels them by the award year. Through 2016 the prize made two or three joint awards a year with no published shortlist, so those years list Winners only. From 2017 a shortlist of six is announced and one overall winner chosen; the winner is listed as Winner and the other five as Shortlist. Titles join main title and subtitle with a colon as printed on the site; the 2023 shortlist typo 'Eruope' is corrected from the winner block. The 2024 page lives at /2024-shortlist/. No fallbacks were needed; wolfson.org.uk/history-prize returns 403 to scripts but the dedicated prize site does not.

Organization: Wolfson Foundation. Years are award years, which can differ from publication years. Official site (opens in a new tab)

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