From the February 2024 Issue Pilgrims, Poets & Prostitutes Liberty over London Bridge: A History of the People of Southwark By Margaret Willes LR
From the August 2023 Issue Immortal, Invisible Lifescapes: A Biographer’s Search for the Soul By Ann Wroe LR
From the November 2022 Issue To Preserve or Not to Preserve? Heritage: A History of How We Conserve Our Past By James Stourton
From the August 2022 Issue From Mont Blanc to Magaluf Tourists: How the British Went Abroad to Find Themselves By Lucy Lethbridge
From the May 2022 Issue Last Orders at the Dockers’ Inn Waterloo Sunrise: London from the Sixties to Thatcher By John Davis LR
From the March 2022 Issue Where Estate Agents Fear to Tread Shadowlands: A Journey Through Lost Britain By Matthew Green
From the December 2019 Issue Mr Salteena’s Comportment Classes The Young Visiters By Daisy Ashford LR
From the February 2019 Issue When the Thames Ran into the Rhine Time Song: Searching for Doggerland By Julia Blackburn LR
From the December 2018 Issue Not for Children The Extraordinary Life of E Nesbit By Elisabeth Galvin LR
From the November 2017 Issue A Leaf Less Ordinary Ancestors in the Attic: My Great-Grandmother’s Book of Ferns & My Aunt’s Book of Silent Actors By Michael Holroyd LR
From the October 2016 Issue Crashing to Earth Constellation By Adrien Bosc (Translated by Willard Wood) LR
From the April 2016 Issue Great Scott Gothic for the Steam Age: An Illustrated Biography of George Gilbert Scott By Gavin Stamp LR
From the November 2015 Issue Track Changes The Railways: Nation, Network and People By Simon Bradley LR
From the July 2015 Issue Model Settlements Dreamstreets: A Journey through Britain’s Village Utopias By Jacqueline Yallop LR
From the April 2015 Issue Don’s Delight The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland By Robert Douglas-Fairhurst LR
From the December 2014 Issue Lines of Site Britannia Obscura: Mapping Hidden Britain By Joanne Parker LR
From the March 2014 Issue Soupçons of Bouillon Other People’s Countries: A Journey into Memory By Patrick McGuinness LR
From the August 2014 Issue Sanctuary in the Mountains Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France By Caroline Moorehead LR
From the October 2011 Issue Mirror, Mirror on the Wall Girl in a Green Gown: The History and Mystery of the Arnolfini Portrait By Carola Hicks LR
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