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The #WolfsonHistoryPrize judges on why they have shortlisted Eleanor Barraclough's Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age (@profilebooks), for the 2025 prize.

Eleanor Barraclough, the 2025 #WolfsonHistoryPrize shortlisted author, on the importance of writing history.

You can read more about Eleanor and her shortlisted book, Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age, on our website www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk/past-winners...

In the lead-up to the 2025 #WolfsonHistoryPrize winner announcement on 2 Dec, we'll be showcasing this year's fantastic shortlist.

First up: Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age by Eleanor Barraclough 🎉 @profilebooks.bsky.social

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Congratulations to former Leverhulme Early Career Fellows Eleanor Barraclough and Hannah Durkin for being shortlisted for the UK’s most prestigious history writing prize – #WolfsonHistoryPrize 2025!

Do you have an interest in Ancient Rome? #WolfsonHistoryPrize judge @wmarybeard will be touring the country with a talk on 'The Secret Histories of Ancient Rome' next week.

Limited tickets are still available for her event at Bath Forum on 7 October.

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In celebration of @victoriandetective.bsky.social’s book, The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective being shortlisted for the @wolfsonhistory.bsky.social 2025, we’re revisiting some of our prize-winning and shortlisted books — with an extract from each.
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Booksellers and libraries! We would love to see your fantastic displays of the #WolfsonHistoryPrize 2025 shortlist. Tag us and we'll reshare!

POS is available to download on our website: www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk/about/bookse...

Nice! Especial congratulations to @kieranconnell.bsky.social and Eleanor Barraclough!

ICYMI our 2025 shortlist was announced on Tuesday. If you'd like to discover more about this year's books, we have them all available on our new @bookshop_org_uk list here: uk.bookshop.org/lists/wolfso...

I’m honoured that my book, MULTICULTURAL BRITAIN: A PEOPLE’S HISTORY has been shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize. Hugely grateful to the judges and the many people who have supported this work along the way

@wolfsonhistory.bsky.social

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Congratulations to all the authors on the @wolfsonhistory.bsky.social shortlist this year! 🥂

Congratulations to @kieranconnell.bsky.social, whose Multicultural Britain: A People’s History has been shortlisted for the 2025 #WolfsonHistoryPrize. 👏📚
Find out more about this year’s shortlist here: wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk
@wolfsonhistory.bsky.social

🗃️📚 Congratulations to all - I'm especially thrilled for Eleanor Barraclough's wonderful, moving book which beautifully weaves together history and material artefacts to explore intimacies of Viking lives

Congratulations to Sara Lodge, The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective has been shortlisted for the 2025 #WolfsonHistoryPrize, the UK's most prestigious history writing prize.

The shortlist: www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk

@wolfsonhistory.bsky.social @victoriandetective.bsky.social

We are thrilled that Eleanor Barraclough's eye-opening and engaging history of the Viking age #EmbersOfTheHands has been shortlisted for the #WolfsonHistoryPrize 2025. Congratulations to Eleanor and the five other shortlisted authors!

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We're excited to reveal the #WolfsonHistoryPrize 2025 shortlist, celebrating the finest historical non-fiction works from the past year.

Congratulations to all the shortlisted authors! 👏📚

www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk/2025-wolfson...

The #WolfsonHistoryPrize 2025 shortlist will be announced TOMORROW, highlighting the most exceptional historical books from the past year.
Which titles are you hoping to see on the list? 📚

We’ll be unveiling the six books in the running for the 2025 prize at 9am.

Just two days to go until the 2025 #WolfsonHistoryPrize shortlist is announced!

2022 #WolfsonHistoryPrize winner Clare Jackson will be giving a talk at Gloucester History Festival on Saturday 20 September, exploring the dramatic story of how England and Scotland were brought together under a single crown.

Tickets are available now from: www.gloucesterhistoryfestival.co.uk