The 2018 Wolfson History Prize Debate
The Wolfson prize has been awarded annually for over 40 years. The overall winner will be announced on Monday 4 June.
This year's authors are:
Robert Bickers for Out of China: How the Chinese Ended the Era of Western Domination
Lindsey Fitzharris for The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
Tim Grady for A Deadly Legacy: German Jews and the Great War
Miranda Kaufmann for Black Tudors: The Untold Story
Peter Marshall for Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation
Jan Rüger for Heligoland: Britain, Germany and the Struggle for the North Sea
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Discussions and talks from the Free Thinking Festival 2019
Angry politics, what we can’t say, being diplomatic, weeping, emotion in music, film & TV
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Angry politics, what we can’t say, being diplomatic, weeping, emotion in music, film & TV
CLICK to LISTEN & SEE programmes from the Free Thinking Festival 2018: The One & the Many
We examine the fast-changing relationship between the individual & the crowd
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Free Thinking Festival 2017: The Speed of Life
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