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2021
Shortlist
Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture by Sudhir Hazareesingh
Something of Themselves: Kipling, Kingsley, Conan Doyle and the Anglo-Boer War by Sarah LeFanu
JFK, Volume One by Fredrik Logevall
A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J.B.S Haldane by Samanth Subramanian
2020
Winner
Conservative Revolutionary: The Lives of Lewis Namier by DW Hayton

Shortlist
Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely by Andrew S Curran
Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History by Richard J Evans
Michael Tippett: The Biography by Oliver Soden
Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy by AN Wilson
2019
Winner
A Certain Idea of France by Julian Jackson

Shortlist
Thomas Cromwell by Diarmaid MacCulloch
Churchill: Walking with Destiny by Andrew Roberts
The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke by Jeffrey C Stewart
2018
Winner
Isabella of Castile: Europe’s First Great Queen by Giles Tremlett

Shortlist
Be Like The Fox: Machiavelli’s Lifelong Quest For Freedom by Erica Benner
The Tartan Turban: In Search of Alexander Gardner by John Keay
Lenin the Dictator: An Intimate Portrait by Victor Sebestyen
Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi by Thomas Weber
Winners
2017
Citizen Clem by John Bew

2016
The Lost Imperialist - Lord Dufferin, Memory and Mythmaking in an Age of Celebrity by Andrew Gailey

2015
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal by Ben Macintyre

2014
Margaret Thatcher: Volume 1: Not for Turning by Charles Moore

2013
Queen Anne by Anne Somerset

2012
How to Survive The Titanic by Frances Wilson

2011
Edward Heath – The Authorised Biography by Philip Ziegler

2010
The Frock-Coated Communist by Tristram Hunt

2009
Florence Nightingale: The Woman and Her Legend by Mark Bostridge

2008
God's Architect: Pugin & the Building of Romantic Britain by Rosemary Hill

2007
Henry VIII’s Last Victim – The Life and Times of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey by Jessie Childs

2006
Petain by Charles Williams

2005
Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry and Britain's Road to War by Ian Kershaw

2004
Mad Madge: Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, Royalist, Writer and Romantic by Katie Whitaker

2003
The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling by David Gilmour