Free Thinking: 2019 Wolfson History Prize Discussion

Rana Mitter and an audience at the British Academy debate history writing and hear from the six historians on the shortlist for the 2019 Wolfson writing prize. The books are Building Anglo-Saxon England by John Blair; Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice by Mary Fulbrook; Trading in War: London's Maritime World in the Age of Cook and Nelson by Margarette Lincoln; Birds in the Ancient World: Winged Words by Jeremy Mynott; Oscar: A Life by Matthew Sturgis; and Empress: Queen Victoria and India by Miles Taylor