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2000s 2002 •
Margaret MacMillan,
Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War 2003 •
William Dalrymple,
White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in 18th Century India •
Geoffrey Moorhouse, ''The Pilgrimage of Grace: The Rebellion That Shook Henry VIII's Throne'' •
Munro Price,
The Fall of the French Monarchy: Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette and the Baron de Breteuil •
Jenny Uglow,
The Lunar Men: The Friends Who Made the Future 1730–1810 •
A.N. Wilson,
The Victorians 2004 •
James Buchan,
Capital of the Mind: How Edinburgh Changed the World •
Norman Davies, ''
Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw'' •
Richard A. Fletcher,
The Cross and the Crescent: The Dramatic Story of the Earliest Encounters Between Christians and Muslims •
Tom Holland,
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic •
Diarmaid MacCulloch, ''
Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490–1700''
2005 •
Joachim Fest, ''
Inside Hitler's Bunker: The Last Days of the Third Reich'' •
Paul Fussell, ''The Boys' Crusade: The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944–1945'' (joint winners) •
Mark Mazower,
Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430–1950 •
Richard Overy, ''The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia'' (joint winners) •
Jonathan Phillips,
The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople 2006 •
Charles Townshend,
Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion •
Simon Schama,
Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution •
Bryan Ward-Perkins,
The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization 2007 •
Jerry Brotton, ''The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and His Art Collection '' •
Deborah Cohen,
Household Gods: The British and Their Possessions •
William Dalrymple,
The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857 •
J. H. Elliott,
Empires of the Atlantic World – Britain and Spain in America, 1492–1830 •
Vic Gatrell,
City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in Eighteenth-Century London •
Adam Tooze,
The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy 2008 •
Philipp Blom,
The Vertigo Years: Change and Culture in the West 1900–1914 •
Leo Hollis, ''The Phoenix: St Paul's Cathedral and the Men Who Made Modern London '' •
Mark Mazower, ''Hitler's Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe'' •
Frederick Spotts,
The Shameful Peace: How French Artists and Intellectuals Survived the Nazi Occupation •
Clair Wills,
That Neutral Island: A cultural history of Ireland during the Second World War 2009 •
Mark Thompson,
The White War: Life & Death on the Italian Front 1915–1919 2010s 2010 •
Dominic Lieven,
Russia Against Napoleon: The Battle for Europe, 1807 to 1814 •
Diarmaid MacCulloch,
A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years •
Amanda Vickery,
Behind Closed Doors: at Home in Georgian London 2011 •
Amanda Foreman,
A World on Fire: an Epic History of Two Nations Divided •
Philip Mansel,
Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe in the Mediterranean •
Roger Moorhouse, ''Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler's Capital 1939–1945'' •
Toby Wilkinson,
The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt: the History of a Civilisation from 3000 BC to Cleopatra 2012 •
Lizzie Collingham,
The Taste of War: World War II and the Battle for Food •
Norman Davies,
Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe •
David Edgerton, ''Britain's War Machine: Weapons, Resources and Experts in the Second World War'' •
James Gleick,
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood •
Edward J. Larson,
An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science •
Adam Hochschild,
To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914–1918 2013 •
Jerry Brotton,
A History of the World in Twelve Maps •
Chris Clark,
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 •
Nigel Cliff,
The Last Crusade: The Epic Voyages of Vasco da Gama •
Jonathan Dimbleby,
Destiny in the Desert: The Road to El Alamein •
Keith Lowe,
Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II •
Mark Mazower,
Governing the World: The History of an Idea 2014 •
David Crane, ''Empires of the Dead: How One Man's Vision Led to the Creation of WWI's World Graves'' •
William Dalrymple,
Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan •
Vic Gatrell, ''
The First Bohemians: Life and Art in London's Golden Age'' •
Charlotte Higgins,
Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain •
David Reynolds,
The Long Shadow: The Great War and the Twentieth Century •
Carl Watkins,
The Undiscovered Country: Journeys Among the Dead 2015 •
Mark Bostridge,
The Fateful Year: England 1914 • Jessie Childs, ''God's Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England'' •
Ronald Hutton,
Pagan Britain •
Robert Tombs,
The English and Their History •
Jenny Uglow, ''In These Times: Living in Britain Through Napoleon's Wars''
2016 •
Mary Beard,
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome •
Peter Frankopan,
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World •
Sarah Helm, ''If This Is a Woman – Inside Ravensbruck: Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women'' •
Raghu Karnad,
The Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War •
James S. Shapiro,
1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear •
Nicholas Stargardt,
The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939–1945 2017 The shortlist was announced 7 June 2017. The winner was announced 10 July. •
Sarah Bakewell,
At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails •
Jerry Brotton,
This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World •
Susan L. Carruthers,
The Good Occupation: American Soldiers and the Hazards of Peace •
Dan Cruickshank,
Spitalfields: The History of a Nation in a Handful of Streets •
Frank Dikötter, ''The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962–1976'' •
David Olusoga,
Black and British: A Forgotten History •
Tim Whitmarsh,
Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World 2018 The shortlist was announced 22 March 2018. The winner was announced 24 June 2018. •
Stephen Alford, ''London's Triumph: Merchant Adventurers and the Tudor City'' •
Anne Applebaum, ''
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine'' •
Masha Gessen,
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia •
Christopher J. Lebron,
The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea •
Lynda Nead,
The Tiger in the Smoke: Art and Culture in Post-War Britain •
S. A. Smith,
Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890–1928 2019 The winner was announced 4 December 2019. •
Edward Wilson-Lee,
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Young Columbus and the Quest for a Universal Library 2020s 2020 The shortlist was announced on 29 October 2020. The winner was announced on 1 December 2020. •
Anita Anand,
The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge, and the Raj •
Julia Blackburn,
Time Song: Searching for Doggerland •
Hazel Carby,
Imperial: A Tale of Two Islands •
Toby Green,
A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution •
Caroline Moorhead,
A House in the Mountains: The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism •
Thomas Penn,
The Brothers York: An English Tragedy •
Roel Sterckx,
Chinese Thought: From Confucius to Cook Ding 2021 The shortlist was announced on 14 October 2021 and the winner on 7 December. •
Barbara Demick,
Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town •
Chris Gosden,
The History of Magic: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present •
Helen McCarthy,
Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood •
Sinclair McKay,
Dresden: The Fire and the Darkness •
Sujit Sivasundaram,
Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire • Ben Wilson, ''Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention'' •
Rebecca Wragg Sykes,
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art 2022 The shortlist was announced on 7 October 2022. •
Rebecca Birrell,
This Dark Country: Women Artists, Still Life and Intimacy in the Early Twentieth Century •
Raphael Cormack, ''Midnight in Cairo: The Female Stars of Egypt's Roaring '20s'' —
honourable mention •
Amitav Ghosh, ''
The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis'' •
Julie Kavanagh,
The Irish Assassins: Conspiracy, Revenge and the Murders That Stunned an Empire •
Louis Menand,
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War •
Ian Sanjay Patel, ''We're Here Because You Were There: Immigration and the End of Empire'' •
Francesca Stavrakopoulou,
God: An Anatomy 2023 The shortlist was announced on Thursday, November 2nd, 2023. • Aviah Sarah Day and Shanice Octavia McBean,
Abolition Revolution (Pluto Press) • Anna Della Subin,
Accidental Gods: On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine (Granta) • Calum Jacobs,
A New Formation: How Black Footballers Shaped the Modern Game (Merky Books) •
Philippe Sands,''The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy'' (Weidenfeld and Nicolson) • Julieann Campbell,
On Bloody Sunday: A New History of the Day and Its Aftermath by Those Who Were There (Monoray) • Kojo Koram,
Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire (John Murray Press)
2024 The shortlist was announced on 14 November 2024. •
Caroline Dodds Pennock,
On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe (W&N) •
Robert Gildea,
Backbone of the Nation: Mining Communities and the Great Strike of 1984–85 (Yale University Press) •
Katja Hoyer,
Beyond the Wall: East Germany 1949–1990 (Allen Lane) •
Ian Rutledge,
Sea of Troubles: The European Conquest of the Islamic Mediterranean and the Origins of the First World War (Saqi Books) •
Avi Shlaim,
Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew (Oneworld) •
Maria Smilios,
The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis (Virago) ==See also==