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Cundill History Prize 2023

"Superbly written” story of women’s experiences of slavery wins the 2022 Cundill History Prize

'Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs' by Camilla Townsend

New take on Aztec history revealed as winner of the 2020 Cundill History Prize

Julia Lovell’s Maoism: A Global History wins 2019 Cundill History Prize

Clare Jackson with her Wolfson History Prize winning book, Devil-land

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The story of England’s turbulent Stuart century wins the Wolfson History Prize 2022

Alfred Nobel (Bettmann/Getty Images)

The history of the Nobel Prizes

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Vintage photograph of a gentleman from the Victorian era c1880 with a bushy moustache.

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A hairy history of the moustache

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Illustration by Rose Wilkinson

William Douglas: infamous bushranger, prize-fighter and reader of skulls

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