2020s 2025 • Winner:
Augustus the Strong: Tim Blanning for
A Study in Artistic Greatness and Political Fiasco (Allen Lane) Shortlist: •
Stephen Alford for
All His Spies: The Secret World of Robert Cecil (
Allen Lane) •
Helen Castor for
The Eagle and the Hart: The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV (
Allen Lane) •
Dan Jones for
Henry V: The Astonishing Rise of England’s Greatest Warrior King (Apollo) • Adam Shatz for
The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon (Apollo)
2024 • Winner: Jackie Wullschläger for
Monet: The Restless Vision (
Allen Lane) Shortlist: •
Deborah E. Lipstadt for
Golda Meir: Israel’s Matriarch (
Yale Press) • Kal Raustiala
The Absolutely Indispensable Man: Ralph Bunche, the United Nations, and the Fight to End Empire (
Oxford University Press) • M.W. Rowe for
J.L. Austin:Philosopher and D-Day Intelligence Officer (Oxford University Press) • Jackie Uí Chionna for
Queen of Codes: The Secret Life of Emily Anderson, Britain’s Greatest Female Code Breaker (
Headline)
2023 • Winner:
Ramachandra Guha for
Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for India’s Freedom (
William Collins) Shortlist: • Leanda de Lisle for
Henrietta Maria: Conspirator, Warrior, Phoenix Queen (Chatto & Windus)
Vintage Books •
Michael Broers for
Napoleon: The Decline and Fall of an Empire 1811-1821 (Pegasus Books) •
Ruth Harris for
Guru to the World: The Life and Legacy of Vivekananda (
Harvard University Press) •
Daisy Hay for
Dinner With Joseph Johnson: Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age (
Vintage Books)
2022 • Winner:
Andrew Roberts for
George III: The Life and Reign of Britain’s Most Misunderstood Monarch (
Allen Lane) Shortlist: •
Timothy Brennan for
Places of Mind, A Life of Edward Said (Bloomsbury) •
Helen Carr for
The Red Prince: The Life of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster (
Oneworld Publications) •
Jonathan Petropoulos for ''Göring's Man in Paris: The Story of A Nazi Art Plunderer and His World'' (
Yale University Press) •
Jane Ridley for
George V: Never a Dull Moment (Chatto & Windus)
2021 • Winner:
Fredrik Logevall for
JFK: Vol 1 (
Penguin Books) Shortlist: •
Sudhir Hazareesingh for
Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture (Allen King) •
Sarah LeFanu for
Something of Themselves: Kipling, Kingsley, Conan Doyle and the Anglo-Boer War (
Hurst) •
Samanth Subramanian for
A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J.B.S Haldane (
Atlantic)
2020 • Winner: D W. Hayton for
Conservative Revolutionary: The Lives of Lewis Namier Shortlist: • Andrew S. Curran for
Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely •
Richard J. Evans for
Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History • Oliver Soden for
Michael Tippett: The Biography •
A. N. Wilson for
Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy 2010s 2019 • Winner:
Julian Jackson for
A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle Shortlist: •
Diarmaid MacCulloch for
Thomas Cromwell: A Life •
Andrew Roberts for
Churchill: Walking with Destiny •
Jeffrey C. Stewart for
The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke 2018 •
Giles Tremlett for ''
Isabella of Castile: Europe's First Great Queen''
2017 •
John Bew for
Citizen Clem: A Biography of Attlee 2016 • Andrew Gailey for
The Lost Imperialist: Lord Dufferin, Memory and Mythmaking in an Age of Celebrity 2015 •
Ben Macintyre for
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal 2014 •
Charles Moore for
Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography. Volume 1 2013 •
Anne Somerset for
Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion 2012 •
Frances Wilson for
How to Survive the Titanic or The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay 2011 •
Philip Ziegler for
Edward Heath (bio of
Edward Heath)
2010 •
Tristram Hunt for
The Frock-Coated Communist - The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels 2000s 2009 •
Mark Bostridge for
Florence Nightingale. The Woman and Her Legend 2008 •
Rosemary Hill for ''God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain''
2007 • Jessie Childs for ''
Henry VIII's Last Victim: The Life and Times of
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey''
2006 •
Charles Williams for
Petain: How the Hero of France Became a Convicted Traitor and Changed the Course of History 2005 •
Ian Kershaw for
Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry, the Nazis, and the Road to War 2004 • Katie Whitaker for
Mad Madge: Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, Royalist, Writer and Romantic 2003 •
David Gilmour for
The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling ==References==