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HWA Crown Awards 2018: The Winners
Historian and Broadcaster Kate Williams presented the Historical Writers’ Association Crown Awards for 2018 at a party at Swedenborg Hall in Bloomsbury. The winner of the Debut Crown for 2018 was Estoril by Dejan Tiago-Stankovic, the Non-Fiction... more
HWA Crowns 2018: The Shortlists
HWA Debut Crown Shortlist 2018 The Optickal Illusion by Rachel Halliburton Populated by a cast of celebrated eighteenth-century painters jockeying for fame and fortune, this delightful tale of high art and low fraud is a celebration of the alchemy... moreThe HWA Crowns Longlist 2018
The HWA Crowns Longlist Thirty six remarkable books will fight it out in the race for the 2018 HWA Crowns, as the longlists for the HWA Crowns 2018 are announced. “Historical Writing is an important part of our culture and also a vital way of... moreauthor showcase
Lorna Cook
Lorna Cook writes dual-timeline stories that blend secrets of the past with the present. Her first novel, The Forgotten Village, is set in the real village of Tyneham in Dorset, requisitioned in entirety in World War Two and never returned. The story moves between 1943 and present day as secrets about what happened on requisition day are finally revealed. Lorna lives by the sea with her husband, two small daughters and a demanding dog... more
Claire Mabilat
Claire Mabilat is a British music historian living near Paris, in France. Following her PhD in music history at the University of Durham, she lectured there part-time and started to publish. She has chapters on orientalism in two books in the series ‘Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain’ (Ashgate, now Routledge), and has also published the history book Orientalism and Representations of Music in the Nineteenth-Century British Popular Arts,... more
Nathen Amin
Nathen Amin is an non-fiction author and researcher from Carmarthenshire, West Wales, who focuses on the 15th Century and the reign of Henry VII. He wrote 'Tudor Wales' in 2014 and 'York Pubs' in 2016, followed by the first full-length biography of the Beaufort family, 'The House of Beaufort: The Bastard Line that Captured the Throne' in 2017, an Amazon #1 Bestseller in three historical categories (Wars of the Roses, Norman England, and The... more
David Santiuste
David Santiuste is a historian of late medieval Britain. He is the author of Edward IV and the Wars of the Roses and The Hammer of the Scots. His other publications include contributions to Medieval Sexuality: A Casebook and Medieval Warfare. David teaches history at the Centre for Open Learning, University of Edinburgh, where he enjoys working with a diverse range of students. He has given public talks on various medieval topics,... more
