Wolfson History Prize 2021 special

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🗓️ 7 June 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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The Wolfson History Prize celebrates the very best history books that combine academic rigour with popular appeal. Ahead of the announcement of the winner on 9 June, we speak to some of the shortlisted authors – Helen McCarthy, Sudhir Hazareesingh and Rebecca Clifford, who’ve been nominated for their books on working motherhood, Toussaint Louverture and child Holocaust survivors. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:04.4	For the past half century, the Wolfson History Prize has celebrated history books that combine rigorous research with popular appeal.
1:07.6	The shortlist for 2021 was recently announced.
1:12.1	And for this episode, we spoke to three of the six authors whose books are in contention for this year's prize. On our panel were Helen McCarthy, author of Double
1:18.1	Lives, A History of Working Motherhood, Sudea Hezari Singh, author of Black Spartacus,
1:23.8	The Epic Life of Toussaint-Liverture, and Rebecca Clifford, author of Survivors' Children's Lives
1:30.0	After the Holocaust. In conversation with BBC History Magazine editor Rob Atar, they discussed
1:36.2	the themes of their books and the secrets to writing exceptional popular history.
1:41.3	And just to note, Helen, Sardier and Rebecca have all previously appeared on our podcast
1:46.2	to discuss each of their books in much more depth. You can find those episodes by searching
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