The shortlist has been selected for the £50,000 (about $66,560) 2024 Wolfson History Prize, honoring "the best history books from the past year." The winner will be announced December 2.
The shortlist:
Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century by Joya Chatterji
Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire by Nandini Das
Traders in Men: Merchants and the Transformation of the Transatlantic Slave Trade by Nicholas Radburn
Our NHS: A History of Britain's Best-Loved Institution by Andrew Seaton
Winnie & Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage by Jonny Steinberg
Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942-2022 by Frank Trentmann