Wolfson History Prize - List of Winning Books

List of Winning Books

• 2012
  Christopher Duggan, Fascist Voices: An Intimate History of Mussolini’s Italy (Boydell Press)
  Susan Brigden Thomas Wyatt: The Heart’s Forest (Faber & Faber)
• 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)