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2025

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Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin by Sue Prideaux

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Italy Reborn: From Fascism to Democracy by Mark Gilbert
Catland: Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern World by Kathryn Hughes
The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe: Male-male sexual relations 1400 - 1750 by Noel Malcolm
Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin and the War between Science and Religion by Michael Taylor
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2024

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France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Petain by Julian Jackson

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Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848-1849 by Christopher Clark
The Revolutionary Temper - Paris 1748 -1789 by Robert Darnton
Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of the Empire by Nandini Das
Monet: The Restless Vision by Jackie Wullschlager
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2023

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The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown by Anna Keay

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Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Conspiracy on Cato Street: A Tale of Liberty and Revolution in Regency London by Vic Gatrell
Constable: A Portrait by James Hamilton
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne by Katherine Rundell
Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement by James Vincent
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2022

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The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe by Mark Mazower

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The Fall of Robespierre: 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris by Colin Jones
George III: The Life and Reign of Britain's Most Misunderstood Monarch by Andrew Roberts
The Amur River: Between Russia and China by Colin Thubron
Burning Man: The Ascent of DH Lawrence by Frances Wilson
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2021

Winner
Ravenna: Crucible of Europe by Judith Herrin
 
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Himalaya: A Human History by Ed Douglas
Tom Stoppard: A Life by Hermione Lee
Kiss Myself Goodbye: The Many Lives of Aunt Munca by Ferdinand Mount
A Dominant Character: JBS Haldane by Samanth Subramanian
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2020

Winner
A History of the Bible by John Barton
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The Man in the Red Coat by Julian Barnes
On Chapel Sands: My mother and other missing persons by Laura Cumming
The Europeans by Orlando Figes
Margaret Thatcher: Volume 3: Herself Alone by Charles Moore
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2019

Winner
A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle by Julian Jackson

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The King and the Catholics by Antonia Fraser
Thomas Cromwell by Diarmaid MacCulloch
In Byron's Wake by Miranda Seymour
The Marshall Plan by Benn Steil
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2018

Winner
Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum

Shortlist
The Victorious Century by David Cannadine
David Jones by Thomas Dilworth
The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World by Maya Jasanoff
Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe by Kapka Kassabova
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2017

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Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts by Christopher de Hamel
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2016

Winner
Schubert's Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession by Ian Bostridge

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Charlotte Bronte by Claire Harman
Agents of Empire by Noel Malcolm
The Tears of the Rajas by Ferdinand Mount
The Poet’s Tale by Paul Strohm
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2015

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Other People’s Countries: A Journey into Memory by Patrick McGuinness

2014

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The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War by Lucy Hughes-Hallett

2013

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Strindberg - A Life by Sue Prideaux

2012

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Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

2011

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How to live: A life of Montaigne in twenty questions and one attempt at an answer by Sarah Bakewell
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2010

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Trotsky by Robert Service

2009

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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer​ by Kai Bird & Martin J Sherwin

2008

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The Discovery of France by Graham Robb

2007

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The Last Mughal by William Dalrymple

2006

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Edge of Empire by Maya Jasanoff
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2005

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Salonica: City of Ghosts by Mark Mazower

2004

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Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps by Anne Applebaum

2003

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The Architect and his Wife: Edwin Lutyens by Jane Ridley

2002

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Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War by Margaret Macmillan

2001

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John Maynard Keynes: Hopes Betrayed, 1883-1920 by Robert Skidelsky
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2000

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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild

1999

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Coleridge: Darker Reflections by Richard Holmes

1998

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Frozen Desire: An Inquiry into the Meaning of Money by James Buchan

1997

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Thomas Cranmer: A Life by Diarmaid MacCulloch

1996

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Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth by Gitta Sereny
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1995

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Curzon: Imperial Statesman by David Gilmour

1994

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A History of Warfare by John Keegan

1993

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Never Again: Britain 1945-1951 by Peter Hennessy

1992

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Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius by Ray Monk

1991

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Clever Hearts: Desmond and Molly Maccarthy: A Biography by Hugh & Mirabel Cecil
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1990

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Federico Garcia Lorca: A Life by Ian Gibson

1989

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A Serious Character: ​The Life of Ezra Pound by Humphrey Carpenter

1988

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The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes

1987

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CR Ashbee: Architect, Designer, and Romantic Socialist by Alan Crawford

1986

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Edmund Gosse: A Literary Landscape, 1849–1928 by Ann Thwaite
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1985

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Ivy When Young: The Early Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett 1884 – 1919 by Hilary Spurling

1984

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Collected Poems by Peter Porter

1983

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James Joyce by Richard Ellmann

1982

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Edith Sitwell: Unicorn Among Lions by Victoria Glendinning

1981

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Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart by Robert Bernard Martin
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1980

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Tenebrae by Geoffrey Hill

1979

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Life in the English Country House by Mark Girouard

1978

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Missing Persons by ER Dodds

1977

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Mussolini’s Roman Empire by Denis Mack Smith

1976

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North by Seamus Heaney
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1975

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Wilfred Owen by Jon Stallworthy

1974

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Alexander The Great by Robin Lane Fox

1973

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Virginia Woolf by Quentin Bell

1972

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Discoveries of Bones and Stones by Geoffrey Grigson

1971

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Charles of Orleans: Prince & Poet by Enid McLeod
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1970

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The Man of Letters by John Gross

1969

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New Poems by Roy Fuller

1968

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The Peregrine by JA Baker

1967

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The Continent of Circe by Nirad C Chaudhuri

1966

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Marcel Proust by George Painter
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1965

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The World of the Shining Prince by Ivan Morris

1964

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John Keats: The Making of a Poet by Aileen Ward

1963

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The Franco-Prussian War by Michael Howard

1962

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Joseph Conrad by Jocelyn Baines

1961

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Collected Poems by Andrew Young
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1960

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Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese by Patrick Leigh Fermor

1959

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Collected Poems by John Betjeman

1957

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Bitter Lemons by Lawrence Durrell

1956

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Gallipoli by Alan Moorehead
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