We're delighted that Festival contributor Professor Sara Lodge has been shortlisted for the prestigious Wolfson History Prize. This is for her book The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Lady Detective which she spoke about at our Festival event in August. Published by Yale University Press, it's a fascinating story of real women working for police forces and private detective agencies in late 19th century Britain and Ireland, as well as female detectives in Victorian melodrama and popular fiction. Well worth a read!