![]() ![]() “There’s still very much a sense that serious history is written by men – books about war or politics – and that women are more likely to tackle fashion, or biographies of queens or mistresses,” she said. ![]() ![]() Historian Alex von Tunzelmann, author of Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire and Red Heat: Conspiracy, Murder and the Cold War in the Caribbean, said that it was “still pretty heavily gendered” in British history publishing as well. This prompted the New Statesman and Virago to launch a Women’s prize for politics and economics, to “identify, encourage and promote new women writers”. Last autumn, the UK’s biggest literary award for non-fiction, the Samuel Johnson prize, longlisted 12 titles – just one of which was by a woman. Thirteen are by women, with one other having a female co-author. The book trade magazine’s preview of 2015 titles in history, politics and war highlights 57 books. Two women make the top 10 in general history, Beard and Catherine Bailey, while three make the top 10 in history and political memoirs. The Bookseller, meanwhile, shows that in 2014, all top 10 bestselling military history titles in the UK were by men. ![]()
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