2016 – 1956

2016 – Ian Bostridge, Schubert’s Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession
2015 – Patrick McGuinness, Other People’s Countries: A Journey into Memory
2014 – Lucy Hughes-Hallett, The Pike: Gabriele D’Annunzio
2013 – Sue Prideaux, Strindberg: A Life
2012 – Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist
2011 – Sarah Bakewell, How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at An Answer
2010 – Robert Service, Trotsky: A Biography
2009 – Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
2008 – Graham Robb, The Discovery of France
2007 – William Dalrymple, The Last Mughal, The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857
2006 – Maya Jasanoff, Edge of Empire: Conquest and Collecting on the Eastern Frontiers of the British Empire
2005 – Mark Mazower, Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430–1950
2004 – Anne Applebaum, Gulag: A History
2003 – Jane Ridley, The Architect and his Wife
2002– Margaret MacMillan, Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War
2001 – Robert Skidelsky, John Maynard Keynes
2000 – Adam Hochschild, King Leopold’s Ghost
1999 – Richard Holmes, Coleridge: Darker Reflections
1998 – James Buchan, Frozen Desire: An Inquiry into the Meaning of Money
1997 – Diarmaid MacCulloch, Thomas Cranmer: A Life
1996 – Gitta Sereny, Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth
1995 – David Gilmour, Curzon: Imperial Statesman
1994 – John Keegan, A History of Warfare
1993 – Peter Hennessy, Never Again: Britain, 1945–1951
1992 – Ray Monk, Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius
1991 – Hugh Cecil and Mirabel Cecil, Clever Hearts: Desmond and Molly Maccarthy: A Biography
1990 – Ian Gibson, Federico Garcia Lorca
1989 – Humphrey Carpenter, A Serious Character: The Life of Ezra Pound
1988 – Robert Hughes, The Fatal Shore
1987 – Alan Crawford, C. R. Ashbee: Architect, Designer, and Romantic Socialist
1986 – Ann Thwaite, Edmund Gosse: A Literary Landscape, 1849–1928
1985 – Hilary Spurling, Ivy When Young: The Early Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett 1884 – 1919
1984 – Peter Porter, Collected Poems
1983 – Richard Ellmann, James Joyce
1982 – Victoria Glendinning, Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among the Lions
1981 – Robert Bernard Martin, Tennyson, The Unquiet Heart
1980 – Geoffrey Hill, Tenebrae
1979 – Mark Girouard, Life in the English Country House
1978 – E. R. Dodds, Missing Persons
1977 – Denis Mack Smith, Mussolini’s Roman Empire
1976 – Seamus Heaney, North
1975 – Jon Stallworthy, Wilfred Owen
1974 – Robin Lane Fox, Alexander the Great
1973 – Quentin Bell, Virginia Woolf
1972– Geoffrey Grigson, Discoveries of Bones and Stones
1971 – Enid McLeod, Charles of Orleans: Prince & Poet
1970 – John Gross, The Man of Letters
1969 – Roy Fuller, New Poems
1968 – J. A. Baker, The Peregrine
1967 – Nirad C. Chaudhuri, The Continent of Circe
1966 – George Painter, Marcel Proust
1965 – Ivan Morris, The World of the Shining Prince
1964 – Aileen Ward, John Keats: The Making of a Poet
1963 – Michael Howard, The Franco-Prussian War
1962 – Jocelyn Baines, Joseph Conrad
1961 – Andrew Young, Collected Poems
1960 – Patrick Leigh Fermor, Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese
1959 – John Betjeman, Collected Poems
1957 – Lawrence Durrell, Bitter Lemons
1956 – Alan Moorehead, Gallipoli