Mary Fulbrook Wins Wolfson History Prize 2019 for Revelatory Holocaust Study Reckonings “Human sympathy that marks the best historical writing” Diarmaid MacCulloch, Judge 2019, Wolfson History Prize London, 11th June 2019. Historian Mary Fulbrook has been awarded the 2019 Wolfson History Prize for her ground-breaking book Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice (Oxford University Press).   Historian and Award Judge Diarmaid MacCulloch announced the winner at the ceremony at Claridge’s, London, commenting: “Fulbrook journeys into some…

I know that you know our history better than most people but when do you think that people were starting to talk more, rather than always reverting to violence first? Dan Snow: Well, I think it happened in different places and at different times. It goes back to ancient Greece, and violence is a regular feature of the human condition. Violence benefits the very, very rich people and the very, very poor people. The very, very rich can steal the…