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Wolfson History Prize 2023
The 2023 Wolfson History Prize went to Resistance: The Underground War in Europe 1939-45 by Halik Kochanski. 6 books made the shortlist.
Winner
- Resistance: The Underground War in Europe 1939-45source (opens in a new tab)
Shortlist
- African and Caribbean People in Britain: A Historysource (opens in a new tab)
- Portable Magic: A History of Books and their Readerssource (opens in a new tab)
- The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empiresource (opens in a new tab)
- The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europesource (opens in a new tab)
- Vagabonds: Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century Londonsource (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)
Shares the most books with
- Cundill History Prize 13 shared books