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2024

Winner
Four Shots In the Night: A True Story of Stakeknife, Murder and Justice in Northern Ireland by Henry Hemming

Shortlist
Final Verdict: A Holocaust Trial in the Twenty-first Century by Tobias Buck
The Shoulders We Stand On: How Black and Brown People Fought for Change in the United Kingdom by Preeti Dhillon
Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade by Hannah Durkin
Agincourt: Battle of the Scarred King by Michael Livingston
The Picnic: An Escape to Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain by Matthew Longo

Longlist
I Seek a Kind Person by Julian Borger
Messalina: The Life and Times of Rome’s Most Scandalous Empress by Honor Cargill-Martin
Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans by Daniel Cowling
The Exiled by Lucy Fulford
A Dirty Filthy Book by Michael Meyer
Impossible Monsters by Michael Taylor
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2023

Winner
The Captain’s Apprentice by Caroline Davison

Shortlist
The Siege of Loyalty House by Jessie Childs
Woman’s Lore: 4,000 Years of Sirens, Serpents and Succubi by Sarah Clegg
Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of the Empire by Nandini Das
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne by Katherine Rundell
The Holocaust: An Unfinished History by Dan Stone
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Longlist
The Treasuries: Poetry Anthologies and the Making of British Culture by Clare Bucknell
China After Mao by Frank Dikotter
Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine by Lawrence Freedman
The Age of Uncertainty by Tobias Hurter translated by David Shaw
After the Romanovs by Helen Rappaport
The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes by Kate Strasdin
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2022

Winner
Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life by Clare Mac Cumhaill & Rachael Wiseman

Shortlist
The Irish Assassins: Conspiracy, Revenge and the Murders that Stunned an Empire by Julie Kavanagh
The Library: A Fragile History by Andrew Pettegree & Arthur der Weduwen
Loot: Britain and the Benin Bronzes by Barnaby Phillips
The Searchers: The Quest for the Lost of the First World War by Robert Sackville-West
National Treasures: Saving the Nation's Art in World War II by Caroline Shenton

Longlist
Operation Jubilee: Dieppe, 1942: The Folly and the Sacrifice by Patrick Bishop
The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell's Quest to End Deafness by Katie Booth
Midnight in Cairo: The Divas of Egypt's Roaring '20s by Raphael Cormack
The Turning Point: A Year that Changed Dickens and the World by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: And the Unwritten History of the Trans Experience by Zoe Playdon
Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History by Alex von Tunzelmann
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2021

Winner
Britain at Bay by Alan Allport
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Shortlist
The Gun, the Ship and the Pen by Linda Colley
The Ravine by Wendy Lower
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les & Tamara Payne
Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Woman’s Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan by Amy Stanley
Ellis Island by Malgorzata Szejnert translated by Sean Gasper Bye

Longlist
Crucible of Hell by Saul David
The Paper Chase by Joseph Hone
Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood by Helen McCarthy
Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge Under Attack by Richard Ovenden
A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J.B.S Haldane by Samanth Subramanian
The Interest: How the British Establishment Resisted the Abolition of Slavery by Michael Taylor
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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
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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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Longlist​
‘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
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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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