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Toussaint Louverture s revolutionary leadership in Haiti; Ravenna s place as a hub of culture and a meeting point of East and West; how motherhood and work have changed from Victorian Manchester factories to the modern boardroom; a 3,000 year history of attacks on libraries and book burnings; battles in the Atlantic from the Vikings to conflicts over slavery in the Caribbean and on the North American coast; recovering the voices of children who experienced the Holocaust: Rana Mitter looks at how the six authors shortlisted for the UK s most prestigious history prize have tackled these topics.
The books shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2021 are: