Wolfson History Prize shortlist for Goldsmiths Visiting Fellow

Margarette Lincoln, Visiting Fellow in the Department of History at Goldsmiths has been nominated for the UK’s leading historical writing prize.

Lincoln’s Trading in War: London's Maritime World in the Age of Cook and Nelson is one of six books shortlisted for the £40,000 Wolfson History Prize 2019. 

Harnessing little-known archival and archaeological sources to highlight the pervasive impact of the Revolutionary Wars, Trading in War (Yale University Press, 2018) is a vivid account of the forgotten citizens of maritime London who sustained Britain during the conflict.

It has been shortlisted alongside Building Anglo-Saxon England by John Blair; Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice by Mary Fulbrook; Birds in the Ancient World: Winged Words by Jeremy Mynott; Oscar: A Life by Matthew Sturgis; and Empress: Queen Victoria and India by Miles Taylor.

Margarette Lincoln took up a visiting teaching position at Goldsmiths in 2015. She is also Curator Emeritus at the Greenwich Maritime Museum having served as Director of Research and Collections from 2001-2007 and Deputy Director between 2007 and 2015.

Her specialist research areas include maritime history, women’s history and the history of London. Books include 2014’s British Pirates and Society, 1680-1730, Naval Wives & Mistresses (2007), and Representing the Royal Navy: British Sea Power, 1750-1815 (2002).

On Trading in War, the judges said: “Covering crime and punishment, shipbuilding and repair, smuggling and much more, this lively account recovers the forgotten people of maritime London, the commercial centre which sustained a global empire.”

The winner of the Wolfson History Prize 2019 will be named at a ceremony at Claridge’s Hotel, London, on Tuesday 11 June.