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)

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