Here are the six titles short-listed for the Royal Historical Society Whitfield Book Prize 2023.
- Spiritual Wounds: Trauma, Testimony and the Irish Civil War by Síobhra Aiken (Irish Academic Press)
- The Enclosure of Knowledge: Books, Power and Agrarian Capitalism in Britain, 1660–1800 by James D. Fisher (Cambridge University Press)
- Giving Birth in Eighteenth-Century England by Sarah Fox (University of London Press)
- Illegitimacy, Family, and Stigma in England, 1660-1834 by Kate Gibson (Oxford University Press)
- Irish Women in Religious Orders, 1530-1700 by Bronagh Ann McShane (Boydell & Brewer)
- Reading the Book of Nature: How Eight Best Sellers Reconnected Christianity and the Sciences on the Eve of the Victorian Age by Jonathan R. Topham (University of Chicago Press)