2015 -1956

2015 – Ian Bostridge, Schubert’s Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession
2014 – Patrick McGuinness, Other People’s Countries: A Journey into Memory
2013 – Lucy Hughes-Hallett, The Pike: Gabriele D’Annunzio
2012 – Sue Prideaux, Strindberg: A Life
2011 – Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist
2010 – Sarah Bakewell, How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at An Answer
2009 – Robert Service, Trotsky: A Biography
2008 – Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
2007 – Graham Robb, The Discovery of France
2006 – William Dalrymple, The Last Mughal, The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857
2005 – Maya Jasanoff, Edge of Empire: Conquest and Collecting on the Eastern Frontiers of the British Empire
2004 – Mark Mazower, Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430–1950
2003 – Anne Applebaum, Gulag: A History
2002 – Jane Ridley, The Architect and his Wife
2001 – Margaret MacMillan, Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War
2000 – Robert Skidelsky, John Maynard Keynes
1999 – Adam Hochschild, King Leopold’s Ghost
1998 – Richard Holmes, Coleridge: Darker Reflections
1997 – James Buchan, Frozen Desire: An Inquiry into the Meaning of Money
1996 – Diarmaid MacCulloch, Thomas Cranmer: A Life
1995 – Gitta Sereny, Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth
1994 – David Gilmour, Curzon: Imperial Statesman
1993 – John Keegan, A History of Warfare
1992 – Peter Hennessy, Never Again: Britain, 1945–1951
1991 – Ray Monk, Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius
1990 – Hugh Cecil and Mirabel Cecil, Clever Hearts: Desmond and Molly Maccarthy: A Biography
1989 – Ian Gibson, Federico Garcia Lorca
1988 – Humphrey Carpenter, A Serious Character: The Life of Ezra Pound
1987 – Robert Hughes, The Fatal Shore
1986 – Alan Crawford, C. R. Ashbee: Architect, Designer, and Romantic Socialist
1985 – Ann Thwaite, Edmund Gosse: A Literary Landscape, 1849–1928
1984 – Hilary Spurling, Ivy When Young: The Early Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett 1884 – 1919
1983 – Peter Porter, Collected Poems
1982 – Richard Ellmann, James Joyce
1981 – Victoria Glendinning, Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among the Lions
1980 – Robert Bernard Martin, Tennyson, The Unquiet Heart
1979 – Geoffrey Hill, Tenebrae
1978 – Mark Girouard, Life in the English Country House
1977 – E. R. Dodds, Missing Persons
1976 – Denis Mack Smith, Mussolini’s Roman Empire
1975 – Seamus Heaney, North
1974 – Jon Stallworthy, Wilfred Owen
1973 – Robin Lane Fox, Alexander the Great
1972 – Quentin Bell, Virginia Woolf
1971 – Geoffrey Grigson, Discoveries of Bones and Stones
1970 – Enid McLeod, Charles of Orleans: Prince & Poet
1969 – John Gross, The Man of Letters
1968 – Roy Fuller, New Poems
1967 – J. A. Baker, The Peregrine
1966 – Nirad C. Chaudhuri, The Continent of Circe
1965 – George Painter, Marcel Proust
1964 – Ivan Morris, The World of the Shining Prince
1963 – Aileen Ward, John Keats: The Making of a Poet
1962 – Michael Howard, The Franco-Prussian War
1961 – Jocelyn Baines, Joseph Conrad
1960 – Andrew Young, Collected Poems
1959 – Patrick Leigh Fermor, Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese
1958 – John Betjeman, Collected Poems
1957 – Lawrence Durrell, Bitter Lemons
1956 – Alan Moorehead, Gallipoli