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2025 Wolfson History Prize goes to Durkin’s “Survivors”

Wednesday, 3 December 2025    Books+Publishing
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In the UK, historian Hannah Durkin has won the £50,000 (A$100,570) Wolfson History Prize for Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade (William Collins), reported the Bookseller.  The judges described the book as “a superb reconstruction of the lives of the survivors of the slave ship, Clotilda. This...

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