Category
page 1Wolfson History Prize winners

Mary Beard
English classicist (born 1955)

Antony Beevor
English military historian
Ian Kershaw
English historian of Nazi Germany (born 1943)
Nikolaus Pevsner
German-born British scholar (1902-1983)
William Dalrymple
author and historian (born 1965)
Simon Schama
British University Professor of Art History and History
Orlando Figes
Canadian Lawyer
Alan Bullock
British historian (1914-2004)
Quentin Skinner
British historian (1940-)
Moses I. Finley
American-born British academic and classical scholar (1912–1986)
Frances Yates
English historian of the Renaissance (1899–1981)
Mark Mazower
British historian
Antonia Fraser
British author and novelist

Martin Gilbert
English historian (1936-2015)
Richard Overy
British historian
Barry Cunliffe
English archaeologist
Christopher Clark
Australian historian
David Abulafia
English historian (1949–2026)
Robert Skidelsky
British economist and author (1939–2026)
Mary Soames
British aristocrat (1922–2014); daughter of Winston Churchill and Clementine Hozier
Adam Tooze
British historian
Alistair Horne
British writer and historian (1925-2017)
John Elliott
British historian (1930–2022)
Robin Lane Fox
British historian, educator and writer (born 1946)
Diarmaid MacCulloch
British historian
Jonathan Israel
British historian
Michael Howard
English military historian (1922–2019)
Chris Wickham
British historian (born 1950)
Keith Thomas
British historian

Theodore Zeldin
English academic
Andrew Roberts, Baron Roberts of Belgravia
English historian and journalist (born 1963)

John Grigg, 2nd Baron Altrincham
British writer, historian and politician (1924-2001)
Norman Stone
Author, educator, historian (1941–2019)
Jonathan Sumption
English lawyer and judge
Wolfson History Prize
literary awards for history in the UK

Rosemary Hill
British historian
Nikolaus Wachsmann
German historian
Richard Cobb
British historian (1917–1996)
Denis Mack Smith
British historian (1920–2017)
Joanna Bourke
British historian
Robert Bartlett
British historian
Christopher de Hamel
British librarian and specialist in medieval manuscripts
Mary Fulbrook
British historian
Barbara Harvey
British historian (1928–2025)
Dominic Lieven
British political scientist (born 1952)
Roy Porter
British historian of medicine (1946–2002)
David Reynolds
British historian
Linda Colley
British historian
John C. G. Röhl
British historian
Catherine Merridale
British historian and writer
Maurice Keen
English historian (1933-2012)
Robert John Weston Evans
British historian
Julian Jackson
British historian
Christopher Duggan
British historian and academic (1957–2015)

Alexander Watson
British military historian
Richard A. Fletcher
British medieval historian (born 1944)

Rees Davies
Welsh historian (1938–2005)
Patricia Hollis
British Baroness (1941-2018)
John Darwin
British historian (1948-)
John McManners
British historian (1916–2006)