1956: Alan Moorehead, Gallipoli
1957: Lawrence Durrell, Bitter Lemons
1958: John Betjeman, Collected Poems
1959: Patrick Leigh Fermor Mani
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
1964: Ivan Morris, The World of the Shining Prince
1965: George D. Painter, Marcel Proust
1966: Nirad C. Chaudhuri, The Continent of Circe
1967: J. A. Baker, The Peregrine
1968: Roy Fuller, New Poems
1969: John Gross, The Man of Letters
1970: Enid McLeod, Charles of Orleans
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
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
1986: Alan Crawford, C. R. Ashbee
1987: Robert Studley Forrest Hughes, The Fatal Shore
1988: Humphrey Carpenter, The Life of Ezra Pound
1989: Ian Gibson, Federico Garcia Lorca
1990: Hugh Cecil und Mirabel Cecil, Clever Hearts
1991: Ray Monk, Ludwig Wittgenstein
1992: Peter Hennessy, Never Again
1993: John Keegan, A History of Warfare
1994: David Gilmour, Curzon
1995: Gitta Sereny, Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth
1996: Diarmaid MacCulloch, Cranmer
1997: James Buchan, Frozen Desire
1998: Richard Holmes, Coleridge: Darker Reflections
1999: Adam Hochschild, King Leopold’s Ghost
2000: Robert Skidelsky, John Maynard Keynes
2001: Margaret MacMillan, Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War
2002: Jane Ridley, The Architect and his Wife
2003: Anne Applebaum, Gulag: A History
2004/05: Mark Mazower, Salonica: City of Ghosts
2006: Maya Jasanoff, Edge of Empire: Conquest and Collecting on the Eastern Frontiers of the British Empire
2007: William Dalrymple, The Last Mughal
2008: Graham Robb, The Discovery of France
2009: Kai Bird und Martin J. Sherwin, American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
2010: Robert John Service, Trotsky: A Biography
2011: Sarah Bakewell, How to Live: A Life of Montaigne
2012: Robert Douglas Fairhurst, Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist
2013: Sue Prideaux, Strindberg – A Life
2014: Lucy Hughes-Hallett, The Pike: Gabriele D’Annunzio
2015: Patrick McGuinness, Other People’s Countries: A Journey into Memory
2016: Ian Bostridge, Schubert’s Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession
2017: Christopher de Hamel, Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
2018: Anne Applebaum, Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine
2019: Julian T. Jackson, De Gaulle
2020: John Barton, A History of the Bible
2021: Judith Herrin, Ravenna: Crucible of Europe
2022: Mark Mazower, The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe
2023: Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain without a Crown
2024: Julian Jackson, France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain
2025: Sue Prideaux, Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin

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