Books by Sam Wetherell
“What Wetherell is doing is using Liverpool as a case study, as a lens through which to think more broadly about the processes that are remaking British society and Britain’s place in the world in the later 20th century and into the present…There’s a huge amount in there. If you’re interested in Britain, you’re going to be interested in this book.” Read more...
The Best History Books: the 2026 Wolfson Prize Shortlist
Helen McCarthy, Historian
Interviews where books by Sam Wetherell were recommended
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The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief
by Richard Holmes -
2
Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction
by Sadiah Qureshi -
3
Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants’ War
by Lyndal Roper -
4
Liverpool: A Story of Britain
by Sam Wetherell -
5
The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World
by Selena Wisnom -
6
Silence of the Gods: The Untold History of Europe’s Last Pagan Peoples
by Francis Young
The Best History Books: the 2026 Wolfson Prize Shortlist, recommended by Helen McCarthy
The Best History Books: the 2026 Wolfson Prize Shortlist, recommended by Helen McCarthy
The Wolfson History Prize is awarded to history books that wed scholarly originality to popular accessibility. Here, historian Helen McCarthy talks us through the 2026 shortlist, with books covering everything from seventh-century Mesopotamia to the 16th-century German Peasants’ War and the postwar history of Liverpool.
