HWA Crown AwardsNon-Fiction

Given by Historical Writers' Association

Other Names: HWA Sharpe Books Gold Crown
72 Works 0 Books

Historical Writers Awards - Debut, Nonfiction & Gold for Fiction

Stages:
All, Winner (18), Shortlist (108), Longlist (215)
Categories:
All, Debut (71), Gold (71), Non-Fiction (72), Shortlist (1)
Years:
All, 2023 (12), 2022 (12), 2021 (12), 2020 (12), 2019 (12), 2018 (12)

Winner 6

WorkYear
The Captain's Apprentice: Ralph Vaughan Williams and the Story of a Folk Song by Caroline Davison2023
Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life by Clare Mac Cumhaill2022
Britain at Bay: The Epic Story of the Second World War, 1938-1941 by Alan Allport2021
A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution by Toby Green2020
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre2019
White King: Traitor, Murderer, Martyr by Leanda De Lisle2018

Shortlist 36

WorkYear
The Captain's Apprentice: Ralph Vaughan Williams and the Story of a Folk Song by Caroline Davison2023
The Siege of Loyalty House: A new history of the English Civil War by Jessie Childs2023
Woman's Lore: 4,000 Years of Sirens, Serpents and Succubi by Sarah Clegg2023
Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire by Nandini Das2023
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne by Katherine Rundell2023
The Holocaust: An Unfinished History by Dan Stone2023
Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life by Clare Mac Cumhaill2022
The Irish Assassins: Conspiracy, Revenge and the Phoenix Park Murders that Stunned Victorian England by Julie Kavanagh2022
The Library: A Fragile History by Andrew Pettegree2022
Loot: Britain and the Benin Bronzes by Barnaby Phillips2022
The Searchers: The Quest for the Lost of the First World War by Robert Sackville-West2022
National Treasures: Saving The Nation's Art in World War II by Caroline Shenton2022
Britain at Bay: The Epic Story of the Second World War, 1938-1941 by Alan Allport2021
The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World by Linda Colley2021
The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed by Wendy Lower2021
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne2021
Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World by Amy Stanley2021
Ellis Island : A People's History by Małgorzata Szejnert2021
A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution by Toby Green2020
Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China by Jung Chang2020
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William Dalrymple2020
The Scoundrel Harry Larkyns and his Pitiless Killing by the Photographer Eadweard Muybridge by Rebecca Gowers2020
Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall by Tim Mohr2020
The Regency Years: During Which Jane Austen Writes, Napoleon Fights, Byron Makes Love, and Britain Becomes Modern by Robert Morrison2020
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre2019
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham2019
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr2019
I Am Dynamite!: A Life of Nietzsche by Sue Prideaux2019
The Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue the Russian Imperial Family by Helen Rappaport2019
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold2019
White King: Traitor, Murderer, Martyr by Leanda De Lisle2018
Rome: A History in Seven Sackings by Matthew Kneale2018
The Fear and the Freedom: How the Second World War Changed Us by Keith Lowe2018
Pie and Mash down the Roman Road: 100 Years of Love and Life in One East End Market by Melanie McGrath2018
The Debatable Land: The Lost World Between Scotland and England by Graham Robb2018
Six Minutes in May: How Churchill Unexpectedly Became Prime Minister by Nicholas Shakespeare2018

Longlist 72

WorkYear
The Captain's Apprentice: Ralph Vaughan Williams and the Story of a Folk Song by Caroline Davison2023
The Siege of Loyalty House: A new history of the English Civil War by Jessie Childs2023
Woman's Lore: 4,000 Years of Sirens, Serpents and Succubi by Sarah Clegg2023
Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire by Nandini Das2023
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne by Katherine Rundell2023
The Holocaust: An Unfinished History by Dan Stone2023
The Treasuries: Poetry Anthologies and the Making of British Culture by Clare Bucknell2023
China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower by Frank Dikötter2023
Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine by Lawrence Freedman2023
The Age of Uncertainty by Tobias Hürter2023
After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War by Helen Rappaport2023
The Dress Diary: Secrets from a Victorian Woman's Wardrobe by Kate Strasdin2023
Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life by Clare Mac Cumhaill2022
The Irish Assassins: Conspiracy, Revenge and the Phoenix Park Murders that Stunned Victorian England by Julie Kavanagh2022
The Library: A Fragile History by Andrew Pettegree2022
Loot: Britain and the Benin Bronzes by Barnaby Phillips2022
The Searchers: The Quest for the Lost of the First World War by Robert Sackville-West2022
National Treasures: Saving The Nation's Art in World War II by Caroline Shenton2022
Operation Jubilee: Dieppe, 1942: The Folly and the Sacrifice by Patrick Bishop2022
The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell's Quest to End Deafness by Katie Booth2022
Midnight in Cairo: The Divas of Egypt's Roaring '20s by Raphael Cormack2022
The Turning Point: 1851--A Year That Changed Charles Dickens and the World by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst2022
The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: And the Unwritten History of the Trans Experience by Zoe Playdon2022
Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History by Alex Von Tunzelmann2022
Britain at Bay: The Epic Story of the Second World War, 1938-1941 by Alan Allport2021
The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World by Linda Colley2021
The Ravine: A Family, a Photograph, a Holocaust Massacre Revealed by Wendy Lower2021
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne2021
Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World by Amy Stanley2021
Ellis Island : A People's History by Małgorzata Szejnert2021
Crucible of Hell: The Heroism and Tragedy of Okinawa, 1945 by Saul David2021
The Paper Chase: The Printer, the Spymaster, and the Hunt for the Rebel Pamphleteers by Joseph Hone2021
Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood by Helen McCarthy2021
Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge by Richard Ovenden2021
A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J. B. S. Haldane by Samanth Subramanian2021
The Interest: How the British Establishment Resisted the Abolition of Slavery by Michael Taylor2021
A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution by Toby Green2020
Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China by Jung Chang2020
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William Dalrymple2020
The Scoundrel Harry Larkyns and his Pitiless Killing by the Photographer Eadweard Muybridge by Rebecca Gowers2020
Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall by Tim Mohr2020
The Regency Years: During Which Jane Austen Writes, Napoleon Fights, Byron Makes Love, and Britain Becomes Modern by Robert Morrison2020
The Accursed Tower: The Fall of Acre and the End of the Crusades by Roger Crowley2020
The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance by Catherine Fletcher2020
Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future by James Shapiro2020
The Russian Job: The Forgotten Story of How America Saved the Soviet Union from Ruin by Douglas Smith2020
Michael Tippett: The Biography by Oliver Soden2020
Chaucer: A European Life by Marion Turner2020
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre2019
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham2019
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr2019
I Am Dynamite!: A Life of Nietzsche by Sue Prideaux2019
The Race to Save the Romanovs: The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue the Russian Imperial Family by Helen Rappaport2019
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold2019
The Sakura Obsession: The Incredible Story of the Plant Hunter Who Saved Japan's Cherry Blossoms by Naoko Abe2019
The Restless Kings: Henry II, His Sons and the Wars for the Plantagenet Crown by Nick Barratt2019
Japan Story: In Search of a Nation, 1850 to the Present by Christopher Harding2019
The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul by Eleanor Herman2019
Devices and Desires: Bess of Hardwick and the Building of Elizabethan England by Kate Hubbard2019
The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World by Sarah Weinman2019
White King: Traitor, Murderer, Martyr by Leanda De Lisle2018
Rome: A History in Seven Sackings by Matthew Kneale2018
The Fear and the Freedom: How the Second World War Changed Us by Keith Lowe2018
Pie and Mash down the Roman Road: 100 Years of Love and Life in One East End Market by Melanie McGrath2018
The Debatable Land: The Lost World Between Scotland and England by Graham Robb2018
Six Minutes in May: How Churchill Unexpectedly Became Prime Minister by Nicholas Shakespeare2018
Napoleon: The Spirit of the Age: 1805-1810 by Michael Broers2018
Black Tudors: The Untold Story by Miranda Kaufmann2018
Lady Fanshawe's Receipt Book: The Life and Times of a Civil War Heroine by Lucy Moore2018
The Women Who Flew for Hitler: A True Story of Soaring Ambition and Searing Rivalry by Clare Mulley2018
Hearts And Minds: The Untold Story of the Great Pilgrimage and How Women Won the Vote by Jane Robinson2018
Houses of Power: The Places that Shaped the Tudor World by Simon Thurley2018

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