Wolfson History Prize
Il Wolfson History Prize è un premio letterario.
Istituito nel 1972 dalla Wolfson Foundation e formalmente noto col nome di Wolfson Literary Awards, è un premio letterario assegnato annualmente ad opere per il grande pubblico che promuovono e incoraggiano standard di eccellenza in ambito storico.
Le opere considerate per il premio devono essere state pubblicate in Gran Bretagna e gli autori avere cittadinanza britannica al momento dell'assegnazione.
Lista Vincitori
[modifica | modifica wikitesto]- 2024
Joya Chatterji, Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century (Vintage)[1] - 2023
Halik Kochanski, Resistance: The Underground War in Europe, 1939-1945 (W. W. Norton & Company)[2] - 2022
Clare Jackson, Devil-Land: England Under Siege, 1588-1688 (Allen Lane)[3] - 2021
Sudhir Hazareesingh, Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture (Allen Lane)[4] - 2020
David Abulafia, The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans (Allen Lane)[5] - 2019
Mary Fulbrook, Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice (Oxford University Press) - 2018
Peter Marshall, Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation (Yale University Press) - 2017
Christopher de Hamel, Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts (Allen Lane) - 2016
Robin Lane Fox, Augustine: Conversions and Confessions (Basic Books)
Nikolaus Wachsmann, KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps (Little, Brown) - 2015
Richard Vinen, National Service: Conscription in Britain, 1945–1963 (Allen Lane, Penguin Books)
Alexander Watson, Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary at War, 1914–1918 (Allen Lane, Penguin Books) - 2014
Cyprian Broodbank, The Making of the Middle Sea (Thames & Hudson)
Catherine Merridale, Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia's History (Allen Lane, Penguin Books) - 2013
Christopher Duggan, Fascist Voices: An Intimate History of Mussolini’s Italy (Boydell Press)
Susan Brigden, Thomas Wyatt: The Heart’s Forest (Faber & Faber) - 2012
Susie Harries, Nikolaus Pevsner: The Life (Chatto & Windus)
Alexandra Walsham, The Reformation of the Landscape (Oxford University Press) - 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)
Note
[modifica | modifica wikitesto]- ^ (EN) Melina Spanoudi, Historian Joya Chatterji wins £50k Wolfson History Prize, su thebookseller.com, 2 dicembre 2024. URL consultato il 3 dicembre 2024.
- ^ (EN) Martin Bentham, Historian wins £50,000 Wolfson History Prize for book about resistance movements fighting the Nazis, su standard.co.uk, 14 novembre 2023. URL consultato il 15 novembre 2023.
- ^ (EN) Lauren Brown, Jackson wins £50k Wolfson History Prize for ‘masterpiece of historical writing’, su thebookseller.com, 22 giugno 2022. URL consultato il 22 giugno 2022.
- ^ (EN) Heloise Wood, Hazareesingh wins £40k Wolfson History Prize for 'remarkable' Haitian revolutionary book, su thebookseller.com, 9 giugno 2021. URL consultato il 10 giugno 2021.
- ^ (EN) David Abulafia’s ‘The Boundless Sea’ wins Wolfson History Prize 2020, su wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk, 15 giugno 2020. URL consultato il 17 giugno 2020.
Collegamenti esterni
[modifica | modifica wikitesto]- (EN) Sito ufficiale, su wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk.
- (EN) Versione precedente del sito ufficiale, su wolfson.org.uk. URL consultato il 1º marzo 2009 (archiviato dall'url originale il 1º gennaio 2010).
