Non-fiction: History
2001 – 2002 – 2003 – 2004 – 2005 – 2006 – 2007 – 2008 – 2009 – 2010 – 2011 – 2012
2001
| London the Biography Peter Acroyd |
The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain Kenneth O. Morgan, editor |
2002
| Imperial Spain 1469-1716 J. H. Elliott |
Enlightenment Roy Porter |
Dr. Johnson’s London Liza Picard |
| Aces, Erks and Backroom Boys Edward Smithies |
The Steel Bonnets George MacDonald Fraser |
The Thirty Years’ War Geoffrey Parker (editor) |
2003
| The Guns of August Barbara Tuchmann |
Salt: A World History Mark Kurlansky |
The Great Game Peter Hopkirk |
| The Pound: a Biography David Sinclair |
The First World War John Keegan |
My Enemy’s Enemy George Crile |
| Empire Dominic Lieven |
2004
| The Good War Studs Terkel |
A History of the Middle East Peter Mansfield |
The Victorian Internet Tom Standage |
| Age of Extremes Eric Hobsbawm |
A Distant Mirror Barbara Tuchman |
Practising History Barbara Tuchman |
| Geschiedenis van Middelburg Peter Sijnke & Tobias van Gent |
2005
| The Balkans 1804-1999 Misha Glenny |
The Mediterranean Vol. 1 Fernand Braudel |
The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval Europe George Holmes (Editor) |
| The Mediterranean Vol. 2 Fernand Braudel |
The Proud Tower Barbara Tuchman |
The Spanish Civil War Burnett Bolloten |
| Women of the Klan Kathleen M. Blee |
The Fatal Shore Robert Hughes |
The Twelve Caesars Suetonius |
| Pity the Nation Robert Fisk |
2006
| Age of Capital Eric Hobsbawm |
The Making of the English Working Class E. P. Thompson |
2007
| The Fall of Yugoslavia Misha Glenny |
The Victorians A. N. Wilson |
Industry and Empire Eric Hobsbawm |
| After the Victorians A. N. Wilson |
Tournament of Shadows Karl Meyer & Shareen Brysac |
On History Eric Hobsbawm |
| Waar Historie Huis Houdt Jan Marijnissen |
The Zimmermann Telegram Barbara Tuchman |
The Fall of the Roman Empire Peter Heather |
2008
| The Fall of Rome Bryan Ward-Perkins |
The Celtic Empire Peter Berresford Ellis |
The Peoples of the Hills Charles Burney & David Marshall Lang |
| London: A Social History Roy Porter |
The Assassination of Julius Caesar Michael Parenti |
Postwar Tony Judt |
| The Mediterranean: Portrait of a Sea Ernle Bradford |
The Later Roman Empire Averil Cameron |
Europe of the Ancien Régime 1715-1783 David Ogg |
| Europe: Privilege and Protest 1730-1789 Olwen Hufton |
The World Turned Upside Down Christopher Hill |
Europe Between Revolutions 1815-1848 Jacques Droz |
| The Structures of Everyday Life Fernand Braudel |
Last van de Oorlog Stef Scagliola |
Britain’s Gulag Caroline Elkins |
| Sand Against the Wind Barbara W. Tuchman |
Silencing the Past Michel-Rolph Trouillot |
Under an English Heaven Donald E. Westlake |
| Goths and Romans 332-489 Peter Heather |
The Wheels of Commerce Fernand Braudel |
Europe unfolding: 1648-1688 John Stoye |
| 1491 Charles C. Mann |
The Road to Verdun Ian Ousby |
Plagues and Peoples William H. McNeill |
| A Savage War of Peace Alistair Horne |
The Perspective of the World Fernand Braudel |
The Dutch Republic Jonathan I. Israel |
2009
| The Iron Wall Avi Shlaim |
The Great War for Civilisation Robert Fisk |
Byzantium Judith Herrin |
| Blessed Among Nations Eric Rauchway |
When Daddy Came Home Barry Turner & Tony Rennell |
The Horn of Africa Peter Woodward |
| A Computer Called Leo Georgina Ferry |
Pompeii – The Life of a Roman Town Mary Beard |
The Kingdom of the Hittites Trevor Bryce |
| Armed Struggle – The History of the IRA Richard English |
Iron Curtain – From Stage to Cold War Patrick Wright |
Renaissance Europe 1480-1520 J. R. Hale |
| Vive La Revolution Mark Steel |
The General Strike Margaret Morris |
English History 1914-1945 A. P. J. Taylor |
| Northern Shores Alan Palmer |
The End of the Bronze Age Robert Drews |
2010
| Mesopotamia: the Invention of the City Gwendolyn Leick |
The Trojans and their Neighbours Trevor Bryce |
The Reconstruction of Nations Timothy Snyder |
| Hitler’s Empire Mark Mazower |
The Babylonians: An Introduction Gwendolyn Leick |
The Ruin of the Roman Empire James J. O’Donnell |
| Backroom Boys Francis Spufford |
Airfix Kits Trevor Pask |
Empires and Barbarians Peter Heather |
| Emperor of the West Hywel Williams |
Rome’s Gothic Wars Michael Kulikowski |
2011
| The Wages of Destruction Adam Tooze |
Barbarian Migrations and the Roman West 376-568 Guy Halsall |
The Making of Late Antiquity Peter Brown |
| The Goths Peter Heather |
Empires of the Sea Roger Crowley |
Framing the Early Middle Ages Chris Wickham |
| The Inheritance of Rome Chris Wickham |
Three Victories and a Defeat Brendan Simms |
Early Medieval Settlements Helena hamerow |
| The Second Anglo-Dutch War Gijs Rommelse |
When Bagdhad Ruled the Muslim World Hugh Kennedy |
The Thirty Years War Peter H. Wilson |
| The Early Middle Ages Rosamond McKitterick |
An Imperial Possession David Mattingly |
The Last Valley Martin Windrow |
| The Wars of the Roses Christine Carpenter |
Carthage Must Be Destroyed Richard Miles |
Troy and Homer Joachim Latacz |
| Europe after Rome Julia M. H. Smith |
Indo-Roman Trade Roberta Tomber |
Austin-Healey Graham Robson |
| Hellenistic and Roman Sparta Paul Cartledge & Antony Spawforth |
The Crusades 1071 – 1291 Jean Richard |
Singled Out Virginia Nicholson |
2012
| War, State and Society in England and the Netherlands, 1477-1559 Steven Gunn, David Grummitt & Hans Cools |
Mediterranean Front Alan Moorehead |
A Year of Battle Alan Moorehead |
| The Crisis of the Twelfth Century — Thomas N. Bisson | The End in Africa Alan Moorehead |
Seventeenth-century Burma and the Dutch East India Company 1634-1680 Wil O. Dijk |
| Charlemagne: the Formation of a European Identity Rosamond McKitterick |
The Empress Theodora James Allan Evans |
