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2023 Winner

Resistance:

The Underground War in Europe 1939-45

Halik Kochanski

A book cover in red and white. The cover shows a figure looking backwards out towards the viewer.

2023 Shortlist

A book cover shows a woman sitting for a portrait, dressed in eighteenth-century clothes.

‘African and Caribbean People in Britain:

A History’

Hakim Adi

Book cover showing a map of Europe, with the title 'The World the Plague Made' printed in neon over it.

‘The World the Plague Made:

The Black Death and the Rise of Europe’

James Belich

A book cover showing a Chinese ruler sat on a throne, with a younger man kneeling in front of him.

‘The Perils of Interpreting:

The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire’

Henrietta Harrison

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‘Vagabonds:

Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London’

Oskar Jensen

A book cover in red and white. The cover shows a figure looking backwards out towards the viewer.

‘Resistance:

The Underground War in Eruope, 1939-45′

Halik Kochanski

The book cover shows an open book with flames emanating from it.

‘Portable Magic:

A History of Books and their Readers’

Emma Smith

BBC Radio 3 – ‘Free Thinking’ Wolfson History Prize 2023

Judges

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David Cannadine judge information

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Mary Beard judge information

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Richard Evans judge information

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Sudhir Hazareesingh judge information

A black and white portrait photo of Carole Hillenbrand

Carole Hillenbrand judge information

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Diarmaid MacCulloch judge information