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2025

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All His Spies: The Secret World of Robert Cecil by Stephen Alford
Augustus the Strong: A Study of Artistic Greatness and Political Fiasco by Tim Blanning
The Eagle and the Hart: The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV by Helen Castor
Henry V: The Astonishing Rise of England’s Greatest Warrior King by Dan Jones
The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon by Adam Shatz
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2024

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Monet: The Restless Vision by Jackie Wullschlager

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Golda Meir: Israel’s Matriarch by Deborah E Lipstadt
The Absolutely Indispensable Man: Ralph Bunche, the United Nations, and the Fight to End Empire by Kal Raustiala
J.L. Austin:Philosopher and D-Day Intelligence Officer by MW Rowe
Queen of Codes: The Secret Life of Emily Anderson, Britain’s Greatest Female Code Breaker by Jackie Ui Chionna
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2023

Winner
Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for India’s Freedom by Ramachandra Guha

Shortlist
Napoleon: The Decline and Fall of an Empire 1811-1821 by Michael Broers
Henrietta Maria: Conspirator, Warrior, Phoenix Queen by Leanda de Lisle
Guru to the World: The Life and Legacy of Vivekananda by Ruth Harris
Dinner With Joseph Johnson: Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age by Daisy Hay
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2022

Winner
George III: The Life and Reign of Britain's Most Misunderstood Monarch by Andrew Roberts

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Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said by Timothy Brennan
The Red Prince: The Life of John Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster by Helen Carr
Goring’s Man in Paris: The Story of A Nazi Art Plunderer and His World by Jonathan Petropoulos
George V: Never a Dull Moment by Jane Ridley
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2021

Winner
JFK, Volume One by Fredrik Logevall

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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
A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J.B.S Haldane by Samanth Subramanian
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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
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2019

Winner
A Certain Idea of France by Julian Jackson

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Thomas Cromwell by Diarmaid MacCulloch
Churchill: Walking with Destiny by Andrew Roberts
The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke by Jeffrey C Stewart
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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
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2017

Winner
Citizen Clem by John Bew

2016

Winner
The Lost Imperialist - Lord Dufferin, Memory and Mythmaking in an Age of Celebrity by Andrew Gailey
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2015

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

2014

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

2013

Winner
Queen Anne by Anne Somerset

2012

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How to Survive The Titanic by Frances Wilson

2011

Winner
Edward Heath – The Authorised Biography by Philip Ziegler
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2010

Winner
The Frock-Coated Communist by Tristram Hunt

2009

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

2008

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

2007

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

2006

Winner
Petain by Charles Williams
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2005

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

2004

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

2003

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