| 2024 | Winner | Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew | Avi Shlaim | Oneworld |
| 2024 | Shortlist | Backbone of the Nation: Mining Communities and the Great Strike of 1984–85 | Robert Gildea | Yale University Press |
| 2024 | Shortlist | Beyond the Wall: East Germany 1949–1990 | Katja Hoyer | Allen Lane |
| 2024 | Shortlist | On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe | Caroline Dodds Pennock | Unknown |
| 2024 | Shortlist | Sea of Troubles: The European Conquest of the Islamic Mediterranean and the Origins of the First World War | Ian Rutledge | Unknown |
| 2024 | Shortlist | The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis | Maria Smilios | Virago |
| 2023 | Winner | Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire | Kojo Koram | Hodder & Stoughton |
| 2023 | Shortlist | A New Formation: How Black Footballers Shaped the Modern Game | Calum Jacobs | Unknown |
| 2023 | Shortlist | Abolition Revolution | Aviah Sarah Day, Shanice Octavia McBean | Unknown |
| 2023 | Shortlist | Accidental Gods: On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine | Anna Della Subin | Granta Books |
| 2023 | Shortlist | On Bloody Sunday: A New History of the Day and Its Aftermath by Those Who Were There | Julieann Campbell | Unknown |
| 2023 | Shortlist | The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy | Philippe Sands | Orion |
| 2022 | Winner | God: An Anatomy | Francesca Stavrakopoulou | Macmillan |
| 2022 | Shortlist | The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War | Louis Menand | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| 2022 | Shortlist | The Irish Assassins: Conspiracy, Revenge and the Murders That Stunned an Empire | Julie Kavanagh | Unknown |
| 2022 | Shortlist | The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis | Amitav Ghosh | Unknown |
| 2022 | Shortlist | This Dark Country: Women Artists, Still Life and Intimacy in the Early Twentieth Century | Rebecca Birrell | Unknown |
| 2022 | Shortlist | We're Here Because You Were There: Immigration and the End of Empire | Ian Sanjay Patel | Unknown |
| 2022 | Honorable mention | Midnight in Cairo: The Female Stars of Egypt's Roaring '20s | Raphael Cormack | Unknown |
| 2021 | Winner | Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art | Rebecca Wragg Sykes | Unknown |
| 2021 | Shortlist | Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood | Helen McCarthy | Bloomsbury |
| 2021 | Shortlist | Dresden: The Fire and the Darkness | Sinclair McKay | Unknown |
| 2021 | Shortlist | Eat the Buddha: The Story of Modern Tibet through the People of One Town | Barbara Demick | Granta Books |
| 2021 | Shortlist | Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention | Ben Wilson | Unknown |
| 2021 | Shortlist | The History of Magic: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present | Chris Gosden | Unknown |
| 2021 | Shortlist | Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire | Sujit Sivasundaram | University of Chicago Press |
| 2020 | Winner | The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge, and the Raj | Anita Anand | Unknown |
| 2020 | Shortlist | A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution | Toby Green | University of Chicago Press |
| 2020 | Shortlist | A House in the Mountains: The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism | Caroline Moorhead | Unknown |
| 2020 | Shortlist | Chinese Thought: From Confucius to Cook Ding | Roel Sterckx | Unknown |
| 2020 | Shortlist | Imperial: A Tale of Two Islands | Hazel Carby | Unknown |
| 2020 | Shortlist | The Brothers York: An English Tragedy | Thomas Penn | Unknown |
| 2020 | Shortlist | Time Song: Searching for Doggerland | Julia Blackburn | Unknown |
| 2019 | Winner | The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Young Columbus and the Quest for a Universal Library | Edward Wilson-Lee | Unknown |
| 2018 | Winner | Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928 | S. A. Smith | Oxford University Press |
| 2018 | Shortlist | London's Triumph: Merchant Adventurers and the Tudor City | Stephen Alford | Unknown |
| 2018 | Shortlist | Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine | Anne Applebaum | Doubleday |
| 2018 | Shortlist | The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia | Masha Gessen | Riverhead Books |
| 2018 | Shortlist | The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea | Christopher J. Lebron | Unknown |
| 2018 | Shortlist | The Tiger in the Smoke: Art and Culture in Post-War Britain | Lynda Nead | Unknown |
| 2017 | Winner | Black and British: A Forgotten History | David Olusoga | Unknown |
| 2017 | Shortlist | At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails | Sarah Bakewell | Other Press |
| 2017 | Shortlist | Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World | Tim Whitmarsh | Unknown |
| 2017 | Shortlist | Spitalfields: The History of a Nation in a Handful of Streets | Dan Cruickshank | Unknown |
| 2017 | Shortlist | The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962–1976 | Frank Dikötter | Unknown |
| 2017 | Shortlist | The Good Occupation: American Soldiers and the Hazards of Peace | Susan L. Carruthers | Unknown |
| 2017 | Shortlist | This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World | Jerry Brotton | Unknown |
| 2016 | Winner | The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939–1945 | Nicholas Stargardt | Unknown |
| 2016 | Shortlist | 1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear | James Shapiro | Faber & Faber |
| 2016 | Shortlist | If This Is a Woman – Inside Ravensbruck: Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women | Sarah Helm | Unknown |
| 2016 | Shortlist | SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome | Mary Beard | W. W. Norton |
| 2016 | Shortlist | The Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War | Raghu Karnad | Unknown |
| 2016 | Shortlist | The Silk Roads: A New History of the World | Peter Frankopan | Unknown |
| 2015 | Winner | God's Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England | Jessie Childs | Unknown |
| 2015 | Shortlist | In These Times: Living in Britain Through Napoleon's Wars | Jenny Uglow | Unknown |
| 2015 | Shortlist | Pagan Britain | Ronald Hutton | Unknown |
| 2015 | Shortlist | The English and Their History | Robert Tombs | Unknown |
| 2015 | Shortlist | The Fateful Year: England 1914 | Mark Bostridge | Unknown |
| 2014 | Winner | The Long Shadow: The Great War and the Twentieth Century | David Reynolds | Unknown |
| 2014 | Shortlist | Empires of the Dead: How One Man's Vision Led to the Creation of WWI's World Graves | David Crane | William Collins |
| 2014 | Shortlist | Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan | William Dalrymple | Bloomsbury |
| 2014 | Shortlist | The First Bohemians: Life and Art in London's Golden Age | Vic Gatrell | Unknown |
| 2014 | Shortlist | The Undiscovered Country: Journeys Among the Dead | Carl Watkins | Unknown |
| 2014 | Shortlist | Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain | Charlotte Higgins | Vintage Books |
| 2013 | Winner | Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II | Keith Lowe | Unknown |
| 2013 | Shortlist | A History of the World in Twelve Maps | Jerry Brotton | Unknown |
| 2013 | Shortlist | Destiny in the Desert: The Road to El Alamein | Jonathan Dimbleby | Unknown |
| 2013 | Shortlist | Governing the World: The History of an Idea | Mark Mazower | Unknown |
| 2013 | Shortlist | The Last Crusade: The Epic Voyages of Vasco da Gama | Nigel Cliff | Unknown |
| 2013 | Shortlist | The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 | Chris Clark | Unknown |
| 2012 | Winner | The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood | James Gleick | Fourth Estate |
| 2012 | Shortlist | An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science | Edward J. Larson | Unknown |
| 2012 | Shortlist | Britain's War Machine: Weapons, Resources and Experts in the Second World War | David Edgerton | Unknown |
| 2012 | Shortlist | The Taste of War: World War II and the Battle for Food | Lizzie Collingham | Unknown |
| 2012 | Shortlist | To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914–1918 | Adam Hochschild | HarperCollins |
| 2012 | Shortlist | Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe | Norman Davies | Unknown |
| 2011 | Winner | The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt: the History of a Civilisation from 3000 BC to Cleopatra | Toby Wilkinson | Unknown |
| 2011 | Shortlist | A World on Fire: Britain’s Crucial Role in the American Civil War | Amanda Foreman | Unknown |
| 2011 | Shortlist | Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler's Capital 1939–1945 | Roger Moorhouse | Unknown |
| 2011 | Shortlist | Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe in the Mediterranean | Philip Mansel | Unknown |
| 2010 | Winner | A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years | Diarmaid MacCulloch | Allen Lane |
| 2010 | Shortlist | Behind Closed Doors: at Home in Georgian London | Amanda Vickery | Unknown |
| 2010 | Shortlist | Russia against Napoleon: The Battle for Europe 1807 to 1814 | Dominic Lieven | Allen Lane |
| 2009 | Winner | The White War: Life & Death on the Italian Front 1915–1919 | Mark Thompson | Unknown |
| 2008 | Winner | That Neutral Island: A cultural history of Ireland during the Second World War | Clair Wills | Unknown |
| 2008 | Shortlist | Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe | Mark Mazower | Penguin Press |
| 2008 | Shortlist | The Phoenix: St Paul's Cathedral and the Men Who Made Modern London | Leo Hollis | Unknown |
| 2008 | Shortlist | The Shameful Peace: How French Artists and Intellectuals Survived the Nazi Occupation | Frederick Spotts | Unknown |
| 2008 | Shortlist | The Vertigo Years: Change and Culture in the West 1900–1914 | Philipp Blom | Unknown |
| 2007 | Winner | City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in Eighteenth-Century London | Vic Gatrell | Atlantic Books |
| 2007 | Shortlist | Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830 | John H. Elliott | Unknown |
| 2007 | Shortlist | Household Gods: The British and Their Possessions | Deborah Cohen | Unknown |
| 2007 | Shortlist | The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857 | William Dalrymple | Bloomsbury |
| 2007 | Shortlist | The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and His Art Collection | Jerry Brotton | Unknown |
| 2007 | Shortlist | The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy | Adam Tooze | Allen Lane |
| 2006 | Winner | The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization | Bryan Ward-Perkins | Unknown |
| 2006 | Shortlist | Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion | Charles Townshend | Unknown |
| 2006 | Shortlist | Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution | Simon Schama | Random House |
| 2005 | Co-winner | The Boys' Crusade: The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944–1945 | Paul Fussell | Unknown |
| 2005 | Co-winner | The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia | Richard Overy | Allen Lane |
| 2005 | Shortlist | Inside Hitler's Bunker: The Last Days of the Third Reich | Joachim Fest | Unknown |
| 2005 | Shortlist | Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430–1950 | Mark Mazower | Vintage Books |
| 2005 | Shortlist | The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople | Jonathan Phillips | Unknown |
| 2004 | Winner | Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic | Tom Holland | Little, Brown |
| 2004 | Shortlist | Capital of the Mind: How Edinburgh Changed the World | James Buchan | Unknown |
| 2004 | Shortlist | Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490–1700 | Diarmaid MacCulloch | Allen Lane |
| 2004 | Shortlist | Rising '44: The Battle For Warsaw | Norman Davies | Unknown |
| 2004 | Shortlist | The Cross and the Crescent: The Dramatic Story of the Earliest Encounters Between Christians and Muslims | Richard A. Fletcher | Unknown |
| 2003 | Winner | The Lunar Men: The Friends Who Made the Future 1730–1810 | Jenny Uglow | Unknown |
| 2003 | Shortlist | The Fall of the French Monarchy: Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette and the Baron de Breteuil | Munro Price | Unknown |
| 2003 | Shortlist | The Pilgrimage of Grace: The Rebellion That Shook Henry VIII's Throne | Geoffrey Moorhouse | Unknown |
| 2003 | Shortlist | The Victorians | A.N. Wilson | Unknown |
| 2003 | Shortlist | White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India | William Dalrymple | HarperCollins |
| 2002 | Winner | Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War | Margaret MacMillan | John Murray |