Wolfson History Prize

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The Wolfson Prize for History and Biography from the Royal Society is for a published history book or biography. First established in 1972, for a book to be considered for the prize, it must be published within the year in the United Kingdom.

[edit] List of winners

• 2004 – Diarmaid MacCulloch Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490-1700 (Allen Lane)
• 2003 – Robert Gildea Marianne in Chains: In Search of the German Occupation (Macmillan) and William Dalrymple White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-century India (HarperCollins)
• 2002 – Antony Beevor Stalingrad (Viking) and Amanda Vickery The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England (Yale University Press)
• 2000? – Andrew Roberts - Wolfson History Prize
• 1999 – Antony Beevor - Wolfson History Prize and the Hawthornden Prize for Literature
• 1998? – Patricia Hollis - Wolfson History Prize for the history book of the year.
• 1997 – Orlando Figes
• 1996 – Colin Matthew
• 1995 – Fiona MacCarthy William Morris - Wolfson Prize for a biography.
• 1985 – Richard Davenport-Hines Dudley Docker: The Life and Times of a Trade Warrior - Wolfson Prize for History and Biography.
• 1983 – John Grigg (writer)
• 1982 - John McManners - Death and the Enlightenment
• 1979 – Quentin Skinner - The Foundations of Modern Political Thought
• 1977 – Simon Schama

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• 1957 – Alexander Dallin

[edit] Unknown years

• Fernando Quevedo – The Wolfson Merit Award
• Jon Stallworthy – also a Fellow of Wolfson College, a poet, and literary critic.
• Karen Wolfson – ??
• David Dabydeen – Wolfson College, Oxford.

A comprehensive list can be found from The Wolfson Foundation.[1]