Wolfson History Prize
# Wolfson History Prize

Les Wolfson History Prizes sont des prix littéraires décernés chaque année au Royaume-Uni pour promouvoir et encourager les critères d'excellence dans la rédaction de l'histoire pour le grand public. Des prix sont décernés chaque année pour deux ou trois ouvrages exceptionnels publiés au cours de l'année, avec un prix d'œuvre occasionnel (prix général récompensant la contribution exceptionnelle d'une personne à l'écriture de l'histoire). Ils sont décernés et administrés par la Fondation Wolfson, les livres gagnants étant choisis par un jury composé d'éminents historiens.

Pour être pris en considération, un livre doit être publié au Royaume-Uni et l'auteur doit être un sujet britannique au moment de l'attribution du prix et résider normalement au Royaume-Uni. Les livres doivent être lisibles, érudits et accessibles au lecteur profane. Les prix sont décernés pendant l'été suivant l'année de publication des livres; toutefois, jusqu'en 1987, les prix étaient décernés à la fin de l'année du concours.

Créés en 1972 par la Fondation Wolfson, une fondation caritative britannique, ils étaient à l'origine connus sous le nom de Wolfson Literary $Awards^,$

## Liste des livres primés (année du prix)

(Jusqu'en 1987, les prix ont été décernés à la fin de l'année de concours. Toutefois, les prix ont été décernés dans l'été suivant l'année de la de livres de la publication. En conséquence, il n'y a pas de prix annoncé pour 1988.)

### Années 2010

**2017**


    Christopher de Hamel, Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts: Twelve Journeys into the Medieval World

**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**


    Ruth Harris, The Man on Devil's Island: The Affair that Divided France (Allen Lane, Penguin Books)
    Nicholas Thomas, Islanders: The Pacific in the Age of Empire (Yale University Press)

**2010**


    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)

### Années 2000

**2009**


    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)

**2008**


    John Darwin, After Tamerlane: The Global Story of Empire (Allen Lane)
    Rosemary Hill, God’s Architect: Pugin & the Building of Romantic Britain (Allen Lane)

**2007**


    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)

**2006**


    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)

**2005**


    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)

**2004**


    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)

**2003**


    Robert Gildea, Marianne in Chains: In Search of the German Occupation (Macmillan)
    William Dalrymple, White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-century India (HarperCollins)

**2002**


    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)

**2001**


    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)

**2000**


    Andrew Roberts, Salisbury: Victorian Titan (Weidenfeld & Nicholson)
    Joanna Bourke, An Intimate History of Killing (Granta Books)

### Années 1990

**1999**


    Antony Beevor, Stalingrad (Viking)
    Amanda Vickery, The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England (Yale University Press)

**1998**


    John Brewer, Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century (HarperCollins)
    Patricia Hollis Jennie Lee: A Life (Oxford University Press)

**1997**


    Orlando Figes, A People's Tragedy: A History of the Russian Revolution (Jonathan Cape)

**1996**


    H. C. G. Matthew, Gladstone 1875–1898 (Oxford University Press)

**1995**


    Fiona MacCarthy, William Morris: A Life for Our Time (Faber & Faber)
    John C. G. Röhl The Kaiser and His Court: Wilhelm II and the Government of Germany (Cambridge University Press)

**1994**


    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)

**1993**


    Robert Skidelsky, John Maynard Keynes: The Economist as Saviour, 1920–1937 (Pan Macmillan)
    Linda Colley, Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837 (Yale University Press)

**1992**


    Alan Bullock, Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives (Harper Collins)
    John Bossy, Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair (Yale University Press)

**1991**


    Colin Platt, The Architecture of Medieval Britain: A Social History (Yale University Press)

**1990**


    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)

### Années 1980

**1989**


    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)

### Années 1970

**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)

## Liste des lauréats du Prix Œuvre

* 2005 – Christopher Bayly
* 2002 – Roy Jenkins
* 2000 – Asa Briggs
* 1997 – Eric Hobsbawm
* 1982 – Steven Runciman
* 1981 – Owen Chadwick
* 1978 – Howard Colvin
