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1956 – Alan Moorehead, Gallipoli

1957 – Lawrence Durrell, Bitter Lemons

1958 – John Betjeman, Collected Poems

1959 – Patrick Leigh Fermor, Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese

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 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: Prince & Poet

1971 – Geoffrey Grigson, Discoveries of Bones and Stones

1972 – Quentin Bell, Virginial Woolf

1973 – Robin Lane Fox, Alexander the Great

1974 – Seamus Heaney, North

1975 – Denis Mack Smith, Mussolini’s Roman Empire

1976 – E. R. Dodds, Missing Persons

1977 – Mark Girouard, Life in the English Country House

1978 – Geoffrey Hill,Tenebrae

1979 – Robert Bernard Martin, Tennyson, The Unquiet Heart

1980 – Victoria Glendinning, Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among the Lions

1981 – Richard Ellmann, James Joyce

1982 – Peter Porter, Collected Poems

1983 – Hilary Spurling, Ivy When Young: The Early Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett 1884 – 1919

1984 – Ann Thwaite, Edmund Gosse: A Literary Landscape, 1849 – 1928

1985 – Alan Crawford, C. R. Ashbee: Architect, Designer, and Romantic Socialist

1986 – Robert Hughes, The Fatal Shore

1987 – Humphrey Carpenter, A Serious Character: The Life of Ezra Pound

1988 – Ian Gibson, Federico Garcia Lorca

1989 – Hugh Cecil and Mirabel Cecil, Clever Hearts: Desmond and Molly Maccarthy: A Biography

1990 – Ray Monk, Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius

1991 – Peter Hennessy, Never Again: Britain, 1945 – 1951

1992 – John Keegan, A History of Warfare

1993 – John Keegan, A History of Warfare

1994 – David Gilmour, Curzon: Imperial Statesman

1995 – Gitta Sereny, Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth

1996 – Diarmaid MacCulloch, Thomas Cranmer: A Life

1997 – James Buchan, Frozen Desire: An Inquiry into the Meaning of Money

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

2003 – Mark Mazower, Salonicia, City of Ghosts, Muslims and Jews, 1430 – 1950

2003 – Maya Jasanoff, Edge of Empire: Conquest and Collecting on the Eastern Frontiers of the British Empire

2003 – William Dalrymple, The Last Mughal, The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857

2003 – Graham Robb, The Discovery of France

2003 – Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

2003 – Robert Service, Trotsky: A Biography

2003 – Sarah Bakewell, How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at An Answer

2003 – William Dalrymple, The Last Mughal, The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857

2011 – Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist

2012 – Sue Prideaux, Strindberg – A Life

2013 – Lucy Hughes-Hallett, The Pike: Gabriele D’Annunzio

2014 – Patrick McGuinness, Other People’s Countries: A Journey into Memory

2015 – Ian Bostridge, Schubert’s Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession

2016 – Christopher de Hamel, Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts