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The #WolfsonHistoryPrize is the most prestigious history writing prize in the UK.

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To celebrate @glastonburyabbe Medieval Festival this weekend, we're re-reading Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys into the Medieval World by 2017 Wolfson History Prize winner Christopher de Hamel 📷Curiosity Damsel

To celebrate @glastonburyabbe Medieval Festival this weekend,  we're re-reading Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys into  the Medieval World by 2017 Wolfson History Prize winner Christopher de Hamel

📷Curiosity Damsel
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Today we're celebrating #AfricanWorldHeritageDay by reading 'African and Caribbean People in Britain: A History' by Hakim Adi. Charting a course through British history with an unobscured view of the actions of African and Caribbean people, Adi reveals how much our greatest

Today we're celebrating #AfricanWorldHeritageDay by reading 'African and Caribbean People in Britain: A History' by <a href="/hakimadi1/">Hakim Adi</a>. 

Charting a course through British history with an unobscured view of the actions of African and   Caribbean people, Adi reveals how much our greatest
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ICYMI: The Rest Is History podcast returned to Royal Albert Hall on Sunday for two packed shows. Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook took a deep dive into the lives and times of two of history's greatest composers, Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky and Richard Wagner, accompanied

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An insightful new video from British Museum which delves into the incredible story of British Museum staff who spent the Second World War protecting the British Museum collections from the threat of Nazi bombers. youtube.com/watch?v=ezXZT9…

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Join #WolfsonHistoryPrize alumnus @Simon_Schama on 23 May at 7pm Hay Festival. Marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the last concentration camps, renowned historian Sir Simon Schama will discuss the Holocaust as a European-wide crime, drawing from his recent

Join #WolfsonHistoryPrize alumnus @Simon_Schama on 23 May at 7pm <a href="/hayfestival/">Hay Festival</a>.   

Marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the last concentration  camps, renowned historian Sir Simon Schama will discuss the Holocaust as a  European-wide crime, drawing from his recent
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Just back from my long stay in the USA. A few reflections on the conversations I've been having about DEI, libraries, and what will happen next. With a bit of self-flagellation thrown in tinyurl.com/ykmnxtpk The TLS

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see you soonish in Australia.. I am talking in Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne in November. Tickets here tinyurl.com/3dd4zpe8

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ANNOUNCING 🔔 'Renaissance skin' by Evelyn Welch - prev. winner of Wolfson History Prize A magnificently illustrated study of skin in Renaissance Europe, coming 1st July 🫦 What happens when you see skin differently? University of Bristol Wellcome V&A

ANNOUNCING 🔔

'Renaissance skin' by Evelyn Welch - prev. winner of <a href="/WolfsonHistory/">Wolfson History Prize</a> 

A magnificently illustrated study of skin in Renaissance Europe, coming 1st July 🫦

What happens when you see skin differently?

<a href="/BristolUni/">University of Bristol</a> <a href="/wellcometrust/">Wellcome</a> <a href="/V_and_A/">V&A</a>
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From the COO of Google DeepMind to a Wolfson Prize-winning Historian – meet some of the trailblazing voices at this year’s #LSEFestival! 🎤 Ruha Benjamin Ruha Benjamin 🎤 Anthony Scaramucci Anthony Scaramucci 🎤 Lila Ibrahim 🎤 William Dalrymple Book free tickets 🎟️ lse.ac.uk/Festival

From the COO of Google DeepMind to a Wolfson Prize-winning Historian – meet some of the trailblazing voices at this year’s #LSEFestival!

🎤 Ruha Benjamin <a href="/ruha9/">Ruha Benjamin</a>
🎤 Anthony Scaramucci <a href="/Scaramucci/">Anthony Scaramucci</a>
🎤 Lila Ibrahim
🎤 William Dalrymple

Book free tickets 🎟️ lse.ac.uk/Festival
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Professor Helen King, a historian of medicine and the body, and Professor Emerita of Classical Studies at The Open University, has joined the Wolfson History Prize Prize judging panel bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article-d… (£)

Professor Helen King, a historian of medicine and the body, and Professor Emerita of Classical Studies at The Open University, has joined the <a href="/WolfsonHistory/">Wolfson History Prize</a> Prize judging panel

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ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: In 1964, Nelson Mandela ws sentenced to life in prison in South Africa. In Winnie & Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage by Jonny Steinberg, shortlisted for the 2024 Wolfson History Prize, Steinberg charts the fractures and stubborn bonds at the heart of a

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: In 1964,  Nelson Mandela ws sentenced to life in prison in South Africa.
 
In Winnie &amp; Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage by Jonny Steinberg,  shortlisted for the 2024 Wolfson History Prize, Steinberg charts the fractures and stubborn bonds at the heart of a
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Join #WolfsonHistoryPrize winner Richard Ovenden on 19 June in conversation with Andrew Hui at Weston Library to discuss his new book: The Study: The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries Bodleian Libraries visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/jun25/ri…

Join  #WolfsonHistoryPrize winner Richard Ovenden on 19 June in conversation with   Andrew Hui at Weston Library to discuss his new book: 
The Study: The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries
<a href="/bodleianlibs/">Bodleian Libraries</a> 
 
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Join #WolfsonHistoryPrize alumna Professor Professor Amanda Vickery for the first of two events on 26 June at Durham University where she will be exploring the visual culture of beauty in Britain. More information here: durham.ac.uk/research/insti…

Join  #WolfsonHistoryPrize alumna Professor <a href="/Amanda_Vickery/">Professor Amanda Vickery</a>  for the first of two events on 26 June at <a href="/durham_uni/">Durham University</a>  where she will be exploring the visual   culture of beauty in Britain.
 
More information here: durham.ac.uk/research/insti…
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Join #WolfsonHistoryPrize alumna Dame Linda Colley for a lecture on 'Crisis, Continuity & Transformation' at Birmingham's Eighteenth Century Centre’s twentieth anniversary conference on 26-27 June 2025. Uni of Birmingham Find out more here: blog.bham.ac.uk/18c/2025/05/08…

Join #WolfsonHistoryPrize alumna Dame Linda Colley for a lecture on 'Crisis, Continuity &amp; Transformation' at Birmingham's Eighteenth Century Centre’s twentieth anniversary conference on 26-27 June 2025. 
<a href="/unibirmingham/">Uni of Birmingham</a> 

Find out more here: blog.bham.ac.uk/18c/2025/05/08…
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ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: On 21 June 1948, HMT Empire Windrush arrived at the Port of Tilbury with its passengers disembarking a day later. Aboard were 492 Caribbean migrants, many of whom were veterans of the Second World War. A major history that transforms understandings of

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: On 21 June 1948, HMT Empire Windrush arrived at the Port of Tilbury with its passengers disembarking a day later. Aboard were 492 Caribbean migrants, many of whom were veterans of the Second World War. 

A major history that transforms understandings of
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Join #WolfsonHistoryPrize alumnus Antony Beevor in conversation at Chalke History Festival this Saturday. In 1999, Antony Beevor was shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize for his book Stalingrad, detailing a crucial turning point of the Second World War and testament to the vital

Join #WolfsonHistoryPrize alumnus Antony Beevor in conversation at <a href="/ChalkeFestival/">Chalke History Festival</a> this Saturday. In 1999, Antony Beevor was shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize for his book Stalingrad, detailing a crucial turning point of the Second World War and testament to the vital
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On 12 July, join #WolfsonHistoryPrize alumna Professor Nandini Das at Lichfield Festival . Professor Das will discuss #CourtingIndia, the early encounters between England and Mughal India and their lasting impacts. More information here: lichfieldfestival.org/event/nandini-…

On 12  July, join #WolfsonHistoryPrize alumna Professor Nandini Das at <a href="/lichfieldfest/">Lichfield Festival</a> .

Professor Das will discuss #CourtingIndia, the early encounters  between England and Mughal India and their lasting impacts.

More information here:   lichfieldfestival.org/event/nandini-…
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On 22 July, join #WolfsonHistoryPrize alumnus and leading historian Richard J. Evans at Norwich History Festival as he looks back upon his career as a historian and discusses his recently published book Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich Learn more here:

On 22 July, join #WolfsonHistoryPrize alumnus and leading historian  Richard J. Evans at Norwich History Festival as he looks back upon his career  as a historian and discusses his recently published book Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich  

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