1973 Winners

‘Henry II’

WL Warren

Eyre & Spottiswoode

‘The Rosicrucian Enlightenment’

Frances Yates

Routledge & Kegan Paul

Judges

Asa Briggs

Alan Bullock

John Plumb

John Elliott

Veronica Wedgwood

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