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  Ramachandra Guha

  Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for India’s Freedom

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  2023
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  Andrew Roberts

  George III: The Life and Reign of Britain’s Most Misunderstood Monarch

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  2022
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  Fredrik Logevall

  JFK, Volume One

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  2021
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  D.W. Hayton

  Conservative Revolutionary: The Lives of Lewis Namier

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  2020
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  Julian Jackson

  A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle

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  2019
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  Giles Tremlett

  Isabella of Castile: Europe’s First Great Queen

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  2018
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  John Bew

  Citizen Clem: A Biography of Attlee

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  2017
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  Andrew Gailey

  The Lost Imperialist - Lord Dufferin, Memory and Mythmaking in an Age of Celebrity

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  2016
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  Ben Macintyre

  A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal

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  2015
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  Charles Moore

  Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume 1: Not For Turning

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  2014
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  Anne Somerset

  Queen Anne

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  2013
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  Frances Wilson

  How to Survive The Titanic

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  2012
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  Philip Ziegler

  Edward Heath – The Authorised Biography

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  2011
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  Tristram Hunt

  The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels

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  2010
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  Mark Bostridge

  Florence Nightingale: The Woman and Her Legend

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  2009
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  Rosemary Hill

  God’s Architect – Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain

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  2008
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  Jessie Childs

  Henry VIII’s Last Victim – The Life and Times of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

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  2007
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  Charles Williams

  Pétain

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  2006
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  Ian Kershaw

  Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry and Britain's Road to War

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  2005
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  Katie Whitaker

  Mad Madge: Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, Royalist, Writer and Romantic

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  2004
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  David Gilmour

  The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling

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  2003
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