Historia is giving away all three winning books in the 2024 HWA Crown Awards to two lucky winners! These awards celebrate the best in recent historical writing, fiction and non-fiction. The two winners of our 2024 HWA Crown Awards winners giveaway will each receive: Disobedient by Elizabeth Fremantle.Our judges called this book “the masterful telling of […]
Historia interviews: 2021 Non-fiction Crown Award winner Alan Allport
Alan Allport won the 2021 HWA Non-fiction Crown Award for Britain at Bay, a fresh take on the Second World War which “changed our perspective, not just on Britain in the war but on British national identity and the way that we deploy history more generally,” as Clare Mulley, who chaired the judging panel, commented. […]
The winners! The HWA Crown Awards 2021
We’re thrilled to announce the winners of the 2021 HWA Crown Awards, celebrating the best historical writing of the year, fiction and non-fiction! Like all books submitted for this year’s prizes, they were published in the year between April 2020 and March 2021, the height of lockdown, so we’d like to express our admiration for […]
HWA Crown Awards 2021: the longlists
We’re delighted to announce the HWA Crown Awards longlists for 2021: 36 books celebrating the best in historical writing, fiction and non-fiction, of 2020-2021. There are three awards categories: HWA Gold Crown, HWA Non-fiction Crown, and HWA Debut Crown. The books longlisted for the HWA Crown Awards for 2021 are: Gold Crown Award 2021 longlist […]
HWA Crowns winners interviews: Toby Green
Toby Green is the 2020 winner of the Historical Writers’ Association Non-Fiction Crown Award for his ground-breaking book, A Fistful of Shells. Many years of detailed research culminated in this fascinating perspective on West Africa and its unique history, as he tells Richard Genet for Historia. I catch up with Toby over Zoom after the […]
Historia interviews, 2020 Crown Awards shortlists: Tim Mohr
Into the grey, authoritarian East Germany of the 1980s the punk movement exploded, challenging the regime and ultimately helping to end it. Tim Mohr’s Burning Down the Haus is a history of the GDR’s punk revolution told by the people at its heart and was shortlisted for the 2020 Non-fiction Crown Award. He tells Historia […]
Historia interviews, 2020 Crown Awards shortlists: Jung Chang
Jung Chang, the historian whose acclaimed family biography, Wild Swans, has been translated into 37 languages but is banned in her native China, is shortlisted for the 2020 HWA Non-fiction Crown Award for Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister. Her book explores the lives of the influential Soong sisters, Ei-ling, Ching-ling and May-ling; three remarkable […]
Historia giveaway! HWA Non-fiction Crown Award 2020 shortlist
Historia’s running three HWA Crowns giveaways in November to celebrate the 2020 HWA Crown Awards, which are announced on 25 November. This one is for all six books on the Non-fiction Crown shortlist. The Historia Non-fiction Crown 2020 giveaway is open until 11.59pm on 27 November, 2020. The two winners will each receive all six […]