2024Winner
Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues by Ross Perlin Shortlist Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Our Future by Ed Conway Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories by Amitav Ghosh The Secret Lives of Numbers: A Global History of Mathematics & Its Unsung Trailblazers by Kate Kitagawa The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals after 1492 by Marcy Norton Divided: Racism, Medicine and Why We Need to Decolonise Healthcare by Annabel Sowemimo |
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2023Winner
Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of the Empire by Nandini Das Shortlist Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution by Tania Branigan The Violence of Colonial Photography by Daniel Foliard translated by Saskia Brown & Martha Evonuk Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation by Kris Manjapra Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World by Irene Vallejo translated by Charlotte Whittle Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living by Dimitris Xygalatas |
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2022Winner
When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold by Alia Trabucco Zeran translated by Sophie Hughes Shortlist The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell's Quest to End Deafness by Katie Booth Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945–1955 by Harald Jahner translated by Shaun Whiteside Osebol: Voices from a Swedish Village by Marit Kapla Horizons: A Global History of Science by James Poskett Kingdom of Characters: A Tale of Language, Obsession, and Genius in Modern China by Jing Tsu |
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2021Winner
Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire by Sujit Sivasundaram Shortlist Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape by Cal Flyn Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Today by Eddie S Glaude Jr Neither Settler Nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities by Mahmood Mamdani |
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2020Winner
Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands by Hazel Carby Shortlist Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent by Priyamvada Gopal Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power by Pekka Hamalainen The Reinvention of Humanity: A Story of Race, Sex, Gender and the Discovery of Culture (Gods of the Upper Air: How A Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century) by Charles King All Our Relations: Indigenous Trauma in the Shadow of Colonialism by Tanya Talaga |
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2019Winner
A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution by Toby Green Shortlist The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity by Kwame Anthony Appiah How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy by Julian Baggini Maoism : A Global History by Julia Lovell Remnants of Partition: 21 Objects from a Continent Divided by Aanchal Malhotra Latinx: The New Force in American Politics and Culture by Ed Morales |
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2018Winner
Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe by Kapka Kassabova Shortlist The Islamic Enlightenment: The Struggle Between Faith and Reason, 1798 to Modern Times by Christopher de Bellaigue Al-Britannia: A Journey Through Muslim Britain by James Fergusson Black Tudors: The Untold Story by Miranda Kaufmann I Was Told to Come Alone: My Journey Behind The Lines of Jihad by Souad Mekhennet Tears of Rangi: Experiments Across Worlds by Anne Salmond |
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2017Winner
Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World by Timothy Garton Ash |
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2016Winner
Islam – A New Historical Introduction by Carole Hillenbrand |
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2015Winners
A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor Germany: Memories of a Nation by Neil MacGregor |
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2014Winner
Knowledge in the Blood: Confronting Race and the Apartheid Past by Jonathan Jansen |
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