From the March 2024 Issue Tear Off Those Corsets Trailblazer: Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon – The First Feminist to Change Our World By Jane Robinson LR
From the December 2023 Issue Jam Yesterday Stuffed: A History of Good Food and Hard Times in Britain By Pen Vogler LR
From the July 2023 Issue From Moth to Cloth Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses By Aarathi Prasad LR
From the May 2023 Issue Doves & de Havillands Kneelers: The Unsung Folk Art of England and Wales By Elizabeth Bingham LR
From the February 2023 Issue Vita Brevis All Sorts of Lives: Katherine Mansfield and the Art of Risking Everything By Claire Harman LR
From the December 2022 Issue The Roast Porpoise of Old England English Food: A People’s History By Diane Purkiss
From the September 2022 Issue Mrs Neele Checks In Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman By Lucy Worsley LR
From the May 2022 Issue Hitching Skirt and Wagon Brave Hearted: The Dramatic Story of Women of the American West By Katie Hickman LR
From the April 2022 Issue Life Lessons from the Sinful Greek Girl Fierce Appetites: Loving, Losing and Living to Excess in My Present and in the Writings of the Past By Elizabeth Boyle Mad about Shakespeare: From Classroom to Theatre to Emergency Room By Jonathan Bate LR
From the April 2021 Issue Romancing the Novelist The Shadowy Third: Love, Letters, and Elizabeth Bowen By Julia Parry LR
From the November 2020 Issue Waste Not, Want Not Rummage: A History of the Things We Have Reused, Recycled and Refused to Let Go By Emily Cockayne Rag and Bone: A Family History of What We’ve Thrown Away By Lisa Woollett LR
From the October 2020 Issue The Woolworths Poltergeist The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story from 1930s England By Kate Summerscale
From the May 2020 Issue Beauty & Beastliness The Fairest of Them All: Snow White and 21 Tales of Mothers and Daughters By Maria Tatar
From the December 2019 Issue A Postcode of One’s Own Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars By Francesca Wade LR
From the July 2019 Issue Picture Imperfect On Chapel Sands: My Mother and Other Missing Persons By Laura Cumming LR
From the June 2019 Issue Mistress of Disguise The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective: Secrets and Lies in the Golden Age of Crime By Susannah Stapleton
From the April 2019 Issue Stitches in Time Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle By Clare Hunter LR
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