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2020
Winner
A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution by Toby Green

Shortlist
Big Sister, Little Sister by Jung Chang
The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William Dalrymple
The Scoundrel Harry Larkyns and his Pitiless Killing by the Photographer Eadweard Muybridge by Rebecca Gowers 
Burning Down the Haus by Tim Mohr
The Regency Revolution by Robert Morrison

Longlist
Accursed Tower by Roger Crowley
The Beauty and the Terror by Catherine Fletcher
Shakespeare in a Divided America by James Shapiro
The Russian Job by Douglas Smith
Michael Tippett: The Biography by Oliver Soden
Chaucer: A European Life by Marion Turner
2019
Winner
The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre

Shortlist
Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham
How to Hide an Empire: A Short History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr 
I Am Dynamite!: A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche by Sue Prideaux
The Race to Save the Romanovs by Helen Rappaport
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold
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‘Cherry’ Ingram: The Englishman Who Saved Japan’s Blossoms by Naoko Abe
The Restless Kings: Henry II, His Sons and the Wars for the Plantagenet Crown by Nick Barratt
Japan Story: In Search of a Nation, 1850 to the Present by Christopher Harding
The Royal Art of Poison: Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicines and Murder Most Foul by Eleanor Herman
Devices and Desires: Bess of Hardwick and the Building of Elizabethan England by Kate Hubbard
The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World by Sarah Weinman
2018
Winner
White King: Charles I – Traitor, Martyr, Murderer by Leanda de Lisle
 
Shortlist
A History of Rome in Seven Sackings by Matthew Kneale
The Fear and the Freedom: How the Second World War Changed Us by Keith Lowe
Pie and Mash Down the Roman Road by Melanie McGrath
The Debatable Land: The Lost World Between Scotland and England by Graham Robb
Six Minutes in May: How Churchill Unexpectedly Became Prime Minister by Nicholas Shakespeare
 
Longlist
Napoleon: The Spirit of the Age by Michael Broers
Black Tudors: The Untold Story by Miranda Kaufmann
Lady Fanshawe’s Receipt Book: An Englishwoman’s Life During the Civil War by Lucy Moore
The Women Who Flew for Hitler: A True Story of Soaring Ambition And Searing Rivalry by Clare Mulley
Hearts And Minds: The Untold Story of the Great Pilgrimage and How Women Won the Vote by Jane Robinson
Houses of Power: The Places that Shapes the Tudor World by Simon Thurley
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