**Free promotional materials for the Wolfson History Prize 2022**

The Wolfson History Prize, the UK’s most prestigious history writing prize, has today revealed its shortlist for 2022. The prize, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, showcases the best accessible historical non-fiction titles from the previous year. The 2022 shortlist was announced on 21 April. 

The winner will be announced on 22 June.

We are pleased to offer free digital materials for libraries for this year's prize. This includes POS that you can use to create a display and enter our display competition by 8 July. The winning display will win a set of this year’s six shortlisted books for their library.

Digital Materials

You must click 'Keep me up to date on news and exclusive offers' on the following contact information page to receive your digital pack.

A collection of assets and branding guidelines for use on social media, websites and e-newsletters. Your digital materials will be emailed to you following purchase. Please check your junk box if you do not receive it to your inbox. Email Kimberley.Sheehan@readingagency.org.uk if you have any problems downloading your pack. 

The first 100 public libraries to order a pack will receive physical materials to help create your display will be dispatched. The physical POS will be a printed copy of each A4 poster and a pack of bookmarks (25 in a pack) will be sent in May. 

Each promotional pack contains:

• A4 poster, 2022 shortlist (digital download)
• A4 poster – 50th anniversary of the Wolfson History Prize (digital download)
• Social media assets – gif (IG and Twitter), IG and Twitter cards for each of the shortlisted books
• Individual book jackets and shortlisted grouped images
• Press Release with more information about the titles
• 2022 shortlist sticker artwork (digital download only)
• Information sheet about the Wolfson History Prize and previous winners.

Please note, if you order a pack you are agreeing to use the materials within your library and to send photos of your displays as well as completing a short feedback survey to Kimberley Sheehan by 8 July.

To learn more about the Wolfson History Prize please visit https://www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk/ or connect on Twitter via @WolfsonHistory / #WolfsonHistoryPrize with @readingagency in your post.

Find out more about last year's winner, Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture by Sudhir Hazareesingh.

More about the Wolfson History Prize

First awarded by the Wolfson Foundation in 1972, the Wolfson History Prize remains a beacon of the best historical writing being produced in the UK, reflecting qualities of both readability for a general audience and excellence in writing and research. The most valuable history writing prize in the UK, the Wolfson History Prize is awarded annually, with the winner receiving £50,000, and the shortlisted authors receiving £5,000 each. Over £1.3 million has been awarded to more than 120 historians in the prize’s 50-year history. Previous winners include Mary Beard, Simon Schama, Eric Hobsbawm, Amanda Vickery, Antony Beevor, Christopher Bayly, and Antonia Fraser.

To mark the 50th anniversary of the prize, the total fund has been increased to £75,000, with the winner being awarded £50,000 and each of the shortlisted authors receiving £5,000. We would love it if you could celebrate previous winning and shortlisted titles and their authors in your displays if you have these in stock. A full list of winners can be found at https://www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk/past-winners/.