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Wolfson History Prize: Female historian s stylish book on working mothers puts her in the running for subject s top award

Wolfson History Prize: Female historian’s ‘stylish’ book on working mothers puts her in the running for subject’s top award Martin Bentham A book on the lives of working mothers over centuries by a female historian who hit out over the Met’s handling of the Sarah Everard vigil has been shortlisted for her subject’s most high-profile award. Helen McCarthy’s “Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood” ranges from women in modern day Canary Wharf to Victorian Manchester to show how attitudes to mothers in the workplace have arisen and is one of six titles in the running for this year’s £40,000 Wolfson History Prize.

Wolfson Prize 2021

Judith Herrin’s Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe (2020) is one of six titles shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize, which honors the best historical non-fiction books from the past year. Awarded annually by the Wolfson Foundation, it is the United Kingdom’s most prestigious history prize, recognizing and celebrating books “which combine excellence in research with readability.” The winner of the 2021 Prize will be announced on June 9 th. About the Book At the end of the fourth century, as the power of Rome faded and Constantinople became the seat of empire, a new capital city was rising in the West. Here, in Ravenna on the coast of Italy, Arian Goths and Catholic Romans competed to produce an unrivaled concentration of buildings and astonishing mosaics. For three centuries, the city attracted scholars, lawyers, craftsmen, and religious luminaries, becoming a true cultural and political capital. Bringing this extraordinary history marvelously to life, J

Wolfson History Prize: Female historian s stylish book on working mothers puts her in the running for subject s top award

Wolfson History Prize: Female historian s stylish book on working mothers puts her in the running for subject s top award
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Oxford writers are on Wolfson History Prize list

Oxford writers are on Wolfson History Prize list
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Eight essential books for geographers - Geographical Magazine

Geographical Magazine Eight essential books for geographers Written by  Geographical A list of books that everyone interested in geography should have on their shelves PRISONERS OF GEOGRAPHY: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics by Tim Marshall Author, journalist and Geographical columnist Tim Marshall demonstrates the importance of geography in shaping and defining global politics – a reminder that despite being the ‘the most overlooked’ factor in world affairs analysis, geography is always there, often forcing the hand of world leaders.  An epic exploration of the world beneath our feet. Underland cuts paths through science, geography, anthropology, poetry, myth and experience. The reader is pulled underneath Paris, Arctic ice, forest floors; into deep caves and underground rivers; ancient funeral chambers; even to underground research stations that look into space. Macfarlan

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