Year
|
Author
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Title
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Ref.
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1956
|
Alan Moorehead
|
Gallipoli
|
|
1957
|
Lawrence Durrell
|
Bitter Lemons
|
|
1958
|
John Betjeman
|
Collected Poems
|
|
1959
|
Patrick Leigh Fermor
|
Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese
|
|
1960
|
Andrew Young
|
Collected Poems
|
|
1961
|
Jocelyn Baines
|
Joseph Conrad
|
|
1962
|
Michael Howard
|
The Franco-Prussian War
|
|
1963
|
Aileen Ward
|
John Keats: The Making of a Poet
|
[3][4]
|
1964
|
Ivan Morris
|
The World of the Shining Prince
|
|
1965
|
George Painter
|
Marcel Proust
|
|
1966
|
Nirad C. Chaudhuri
|
The Continent of Circe
|
[5]
|
1967
|
J. A. Baker
|
The Peregrine
|
[6]
|
1968
|
Roy Fuller
|
New Poems
|
|
1969
|
John Gross
|
The Man of Letters
|
|
1970
|
Enid McLeod
|
Charles of Orleans: Prince & Poet
|
|
1971
|
Geoffrey Grigson
|
Discoveries of Bones and Stones
|
|
1972
|
Quentin Bell
|
Virginia Woolf
|
|
1973
|
Robin Lane Fox
|
Alexander the Great
|
|
1974
|
Jon Stallworthy
|
Wilfred Owen
|
|
1975
|
Seamus Heaney
|
North
|
|
1976
|
Denis Mack Smith
|
Mussolini's Roman Empire
|
|
1977
|
E. R. Dodds
|
Missing Persons
|
|
1978
|
Mark Girouard
|
Life in the English Country House
|
|
1979
|
Geoffrey Hill
|
Tenebrae
|
|
1980
|
Robert Bernard Martin
|
Tennyson, The Unquiet Heart
|
|
1981
|
Victoria Glendinning
|
Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among the Lions
|
|
1982
|
Richard Ellmann
|
James Joyce
|
|
1983
|
Peter Porter
|
Collected Poems
|
|
1984
|
Hilary Spurling
|
Ivy When Young: The Early Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett 1884-1919
|
|
1985
|
Ann Thwaite
|
Edmund Gosse: A Literary Landscape,1849,1928
|
|
1986
|
Alan Crawford
|
C. R. Ashbee: Architect, Designer, and Romantic Socialist
|
|
1987
|
Robert Hughes
|
The Fatal Shore
|
|
1988
|
Humphrey Carpenter
|
A Serious Character: The Life of Ezra Pound
|
|
1989
|
Ian Gibson
|
Federico Garcia Lorca
|
|
1990
|
Hugh Cecil and Mirabel Cecil
|
Clever Hearts: Desmond and Molly Maccarthy: A Biography
|
|
1991
|
Ray Monk
|
Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius
|
|
1992
|
Peter Hennessy
|
Never Again: Britain, 1945-1951
|
|
1993
|
John Keegan
|
A History of Warfare
|
|
1994
|
David Gilmour
|
Curzon: Imperial Statesman
|
|
1995
|
Gitta Sereny
|
Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth
|
|
1996
|
Diarmaid MacCulloch
|
Thomas Cranmer: A Life
|
|
1997
|
James Buchan
|
Frozen Desire: An Inquiry into the Meaning of Money
|
|
1998
|
Richard Holmes
|
Coleridge: Darker Reflections
|
|
1999
|
Adam Hochschild
|
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa
|
|
2000
|
Robert Skidelsky
|
John Maynard Keynes
|
|
2001
|
Margaret MacMillan
|
Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War
|
[7]
|
2002
|
Jane Ridley
|
The Architect and His Wife
|
[8]
|
2003
|
Anne Applebaum
|
Gulag: A History
|
[9]
|
2004
|
Mark Mazower
|
Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950
|
[10]
|
2005
|
Maya Jasanoff
|
Edge of Empire: Conquest and Collecting on the Eastern Frontiers of the British Empire
|
[11]
|
2006
|
William Dalrymple
|
The Last Mughal, The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857
|
[12]
|
2007
|
Graham Robb
|
The Discovery of France
|
|
2008
|
Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
|
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
|
[13]
|
2009
|
Robert Service
|
Trotsky: A Biography
|
[14]
|
2010
|
Sarah Bakewell
|
How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at An Answer
|
[15]
|
2011
|
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
|
Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist
|
[16]
|
2012
|
Sue Prideaux
|
Strindberg: A Life
|
[17][18]
|
2013
|
Lucy Hughes-Hallett
|
The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War
|
[19]
|
2014
|
Patrick McGuinness
|
Other People's Countries: A Journey into Memory
|
|
2015
|
Ian Bostridge
|
Schubert's Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession
|
[20][21]
|
2016
|
Christopher de Hamel
|
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
|
[22][23]
|
2017
|
Anne Applebaum
|
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
|
[24][25]
|
2018
|
Julian Jackson
|
A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles De Gaulle
|
[26]
|
2019
|
John Barton
|
A History of the Bible
|
[27][28]
|
2020
|
Judith Herrin
|
Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Empire
|
[29][30]
|
2021
|
Mark Mazower
|
The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe
|
[31]
|
2022
|
Anna Keay
|
The Restless Republic: Britain without a Crown
|
[32][33]
|
2023
|
Julian Jackson
|
France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain
|
[34]
|