Wolfson History Prize Betting Odds: Henrietta Harrison 13/8 FAVOURITE to win this year's Wolfson History Prize with 6-person shortlist revealed earlier this month!

Henrietta Harrison is the 13/8 favourite to win this year's Wolfson History Prize

The six person shortlist for this year's Wolfson History Prize was announced earlier this month and bookmakers are now offering odds on who will win the prestigious award.

The Wolfson History Prize is given annually in the United Kingdom to promote standards of excellence in the writing of history for the general public with a shortlist chosen before picking an overall winner.

Betting odds are now given for the award with British historian Henrietta Harrison the 13/8 favourite to win the prize for her latest book The Perils of Interpreting which takes a look at the 1793 British embassy to China.

Those odds suggest that there's a 38% chance of Harrison winning the award just ahead of second favourite Halik Kochanski in the betting market.

We look at the full six nominees for the 2023 Wolfson History Prize

There are six nominees for the 2023 Wolfson History Prize with the odds given for each of them to win above, but we'll look at what they are nominated for.

Each nominee has been chosen due to their latest work with a variety of books nominated for the prestigious award this year.

Those six nominees, with the title of their books are:

• Hakim Adi - African and Caribbean People in Britain: A History
• James Belich - The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe
• Henrietta Harrison - The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire
• Halik Kochanski - Resistance: The Underground War in Europe 1939-1945
• Oskar Jensen - Vagabonds: Life on the Streets of Nineteenth Century London
• Emma Smith - Portable Magic: A History of Books and their Readers

When will the Wolfson History Prize winner be announced?

The 2023 Wolfson History Prize winner will be announced on 13 November 2023 after the six-person shortlist was announced back on 5 September.

Winning the prize gives you a £50,000 award with the shortlisted authors all receiving £5,000 each and there has been more than £1.4m awarded in the last 51 years.

The Wolfson Foundation give the award out with the independent charity focusing on research and education.

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