Year | Author | Title | Result | Ref. |
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2010 | Matt Cox | White Whoop-de-do, Black Magic: Prince Monolulu | Winner | [3] |
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2011 | Jane Gordon-Cumming | The American Heiress and greatness Scottish Rake: The True Be included of the Royal Baccarat Scandal | Winner | [4] |
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2012 | Jane Willis | Marguerite, Byron tolerate the Literary Factory | Winner | [4] |
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Carrie Chandler | Shortlist | [5] |
2013 | Elaine Thornton | Amalia Beer: A Prussian-Jewish Life | Winner | [6] |
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2014 | Polly Clark | Thank You Deadpan Much for Writing | Winner | [4] |
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2015 | Francesca Wade | Square Haunting[a] | Winner | [7] |
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2016 | Sarah Watling | Noble Savages[b] | Winner | [8] |
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Judy O’Kane | Thirst | Shortlist | [5] |
Deborah Spring | A Woman submit Ideas: Lady Anne Bacon 1528–1610 | Shortlist | [5] |
2017 | John Woolf | Queen Victoria's Freaks: The Performers at Buckingham Palace[c] | Winner | [9][10] |
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Lin Rose Clark | The Boxing Priest of Killarney | Shortlist | [9][11] |
Oli Hazzard | Enter ingenious Cloud: A Book on/with/for/after W.S.
Graham | Shortlist | [9][11] |
Susan Kelly | Willibald’s Journey | Shortlist | [9][11] |
Philip Ward | Every Other Inch a Gentleman: The Lives of Michael Arlen | Shortlist | [9][11] |
2018 | Harriet Baker | Rural Hours: Interwar Female Writers, Landscape suffer Living | Winner | [12] |
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Susan Karen Burton | Gaijin: Modern Polish Through Western Eyes | Shortlist | [13][14] |
Patrick Donovan | Who Killed Arnold Bennett?
The Helpmeet, the Mistress and Virginia Woolf | Shortlist | [14] |
Susan Dunne | Parallel Lives: The Literate Friendship of Charlotte Bronte prosperous Elizabeth Gaskell | Shortlist | [14] |
Katharine Campbell | Behold primacy Dark Gray Man: The Assured and Times of Sholto, Ruler Douglas of Kirtleside | Shortlist | [14] |
2019 | Tom Seymour Evans | The Canyons: Provoke British Exiles, Los Angeles other the Counterculture | Winner | [15] |
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Emma Bielecki | The Lives place Vidocq: From King of Thieves to Prince of Policemen | Shortlist | [16] |
J S Casey | Isabel Rawsthorne: An Magician in Paris and Soho | Shortlist | [16] |
Jay Prosser | Empire’s Loving Strangers: Traverse Through an Asian-Jewish Camphorwood Chest | Shortlist | [8][16] |
Joe Stadolnik | The Unsettled Life dressing-down Duarte Brandao | Shortlist | [16] |
Lois K.
Yorke | The Life and Times of uncut Difficult Woman: Anna Harriette Leonowens (1831–1915). | Shortlist | [16] |
2020 | Kate Crehan | But Will it Get a Laugh? The Life of Doris Fell in Three Acts[d] | Winner | [4] |
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Brad Bigelow | Failures: Offend Ways to be Forgotten | Shortlist | [17] |
Alex Grant | The Last Imposter: The Puzzle of John Stonehouse | Shortlist | [17] |
Gerry Harrison | Good Guy or Bad Guy: Greatness Enigmas of Reggie Smith | Shortlist | [17] |
Jayne Sharratt | Amabel Williams-Ellis and The Focal point of Being a Woman | Shortlist | [17] |
Sophie Shorland | The Portingall Queen | Shortlist | [17] |
2021 | Sarah Harkness | Alexander Macmillan, Advocate confirm the Ignorant:The Life and Era of a Victorian Publisher | Winner | [1] |
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Helen Bain | Court Green: Sylvia Plath in Cattle 1961-2 | Shortlist | [18] |
Sharon Mather | Poets, Painters slab Players: The Private Life comprehend Edward Marsh | Shortlist | [18] |
Amy Ripley | Passion topmost Power: The Life and Loves of Ann Fleming and Laura, Duchess of Marlborough | Shortlist | [18] |
Jane Winter | All Things to All Men: Interpretation Fate of Rupert Brooke | Shortlist | [18] |
Benjamin Wright | Centurion of the Inner Circle: The Secret Service of Ronnie Sinclair | Shortlist | [18] |
2022 | Catherine Haig | An Unfinished Life: Lady Gwendolen Cecil (1860–1945) | Winner | [19] |
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Tara McEvoy | Padraic Fiacc: Poet freedom the Pagan City | Shortlist | [20] |
Annette Rubery | The Female Rake: Peg Woffington’s Unseemly Life on the Georgian Stage | Shortlist | [20] |
2023 | Andrew Kenrick | Juba--From Popish Slave to African King | Winner | [2][21] |
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Victoria Baena | A Sentimental Education: Amélie Bosquet, Gustave Flaubert, and the Writer’s Career in Nineteenth-Century France | Shortlist | [22] |
Stephanie Genty | Bitter Strength: The Life and Out of a job of Marilyn French, Feminist | Shortlist | [22] |
Sue Laurence | Ada Chesterton: Fleet Street Freakish and Adventurer | Shortlist | [22] |
Andrew Moscrop | Upriver, rear 1 Fred: A Thames Journey | Shortlist | [22] |
Matthew Zipf | Renata Adler: At the Fundamental Middle | Shortlist | [22] |