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HWA CROWN AWARDS 2019
We are delighted to share the shortlists for the 2019 Crowns, with thanks to all our judges, and our sponsor Sharpe Books. ... more
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... moreauthor showcase
Caroline Shenton
Caroline Shenton is an archivist and historian. With a doctorate in medieval history from Oxford, she is a former Director of the Parliamentary Archives in London, and before that a senior archivist at the National Archives. Her first popular history book The Day Parliament Burned Down won the Political Book of the Year Award in 2013, and was shortlisted for the Longman/History Today Prize, It was also a Book of the Year for The Daily Telegraph,... more
Hilary Green
I trained as an actress at the Rose Bruford College but decided that my time would be better employed as a teacher, so for some years I taught drama and theatre arts. Two of my most successful students are Christopher Luscombe, the well known director, and the current 007, Daniel Craig. I have always written and have done scripts for BBC Schools History Programmes. I had three thrillers published by Robert Hale in the 1980s and won the... more
Tracy Borman
I studied and taught history at the University of Hull and was awarded a PHD in 1997. I went on to a successful career in heritage and have worked for a range of historic properties and national heritage organisations, including the Heritage Lottery Fund, The National Archives and English Heritage. I am now Chief Executive of the Heritage Education Trust, a charity that encourages children to visit and learn from historic properties through... more
Alexandra Walsh
Alexandra Walsh was a journalist for over 25 years; writing and editing for many national newspapers and magazines. She worked in television as an associate producer and director, with a brief stint in radio. For a number of years, she wrote television and film scripts before combining her two passions of history and fiction to write The Marquess House Trilogy, a series of a dual timeline conspiracy thrillers, moving between the present day and... more
