Books by John Blair
“It’s difficult to make Anglo-Saxon England come to life, but this book does because it’s got such an eye and an ear for what remains. Blair is straddling two worlds which don’t always talk to each other properly: history and archaeology.” Read more...
The Best History Books: the 2019 Wolfson Prize shortlist
Diarmaid MacCulloch, Theologians & Historians of Religion
Interviews where books by John Blair were recommended
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Oscar: A Life
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Empress: Queen Victoria and India
by Miles Taylor -
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Birds in the Ancient World: Winged Words
by Jeremy Mynott -
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Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice
by Mary Fulbrook -
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Trading in War: London's Maritime World in the Age of Cook and Nelson
by Margarette Lincoln -
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Building Anglo-Saxon England
by John Blair
The Best History Books: the 2019 Wolfson Prize shortlist, recommended by Diarmaid MacCulloch
The Best History Books: the 2019 Wolfson Prize shortlist, recommended by Diarmaid MacCulloch
Every year the Wolfson History Prize sets out to pick the very best history books written in the past year. Historian and Wolfson prize judge, Diarmaid MacCulloch, talks us through the wonderful books that made the 2019 shortlist: history books that are both great reads and serious scholarship.
