From the October 2024 Issue Just a Straightforward Shooting Weekend The Power and the Glory: The Country House Before the Great War By Adrian Tinniswood LR
From the September 2023 Issue Prime Ministers & Paupers Sing As We Go: Britain Between the Wars By Simon Heffer LR
From the October 2021 Issue Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Queen The Secret Royals: Spying and the Crown, from Victoria to Diana By Richard J Aldrich & Rory Cormac LR
From the August 2021 Issue England’s Empire Style Interiors Hidden Heritage: Rediscovering Britain’s Lost Love of the Orient By Fatima Manji LR
From the July 2020 Issue He Loved Germany Too Much Haldane: The Forgotten Statesman Who Shaped Modern Britain By John Campbell LR
From the June 2020 Issue Liberal Habitats The Edwardians and Their Houses: The New Life of Old England By Timothy Brittain-Catlin
From the April 2019 Issue Prime Minister’s Pet Max Beaverbrook: Not Quite a Gentleman By Charles Williams LR
From the December 2018 Issue Full of Heirs and Graces Who’s In, Who’s Out: The Journals of Kenneth Rose – Volume One 1944–1979 By D R Thorpe
From the September 2018 Issue Going Jungly The British in India: Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience By David Gilmour LR
From the October 2017 Issue Wanderlust Joan: The Remarkable Life of Joan Leigh Fermor By Simon Fenwick LR
From the June 2017 Issue Rex Whistler Painted Her Hall A Constant Heart: The War Diaries of Maud Russell 1938–1945 By Emily Russell (ed) LR
From the July 2016 Issue Hythe Society Charmed Life: The Phenomenal World of Philip Sassoon By Damian Collins LR
From the July 2015 Issue Grand Dame of Downing Street First Lady: The Life and Wars of Clementine Churchill By Sonia Purnell LR
From the May 2015 Issue Treachery at the Palace Princes at War: The British Royal Family’s Private Battle in the Second World War By Deborah Cadbury LR
From the June 2004 Issue From the Sewers Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City By Tristram Hunt LR
From the November 2014 Issue Knole Me Tangere Behind the Mask: The Life of Vita Sackville-West By Matthew Dennison LR
From the December 2014 Issue Passage from India Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary By Anita Anand LR
From the June 2011 Issue Building Jerusalem in the Home Countries Octavia, Daughter of God: The Story of a Female Messiah and her Followers By Jane Shaw LR
From the April 2011 Issue Where’s Wallis? Behind Closed Doors: The Tragic, Untold Story of the Duchess of Windsor By Hugo Vickers LR
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