Man for All Seasons

Goethe’s Faustian Life

By A N Wilson

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Fights & Tights

Bluestockings: The First Women’s Movement

By Susannah Gibson

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Poet for Our Time

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From the November 2023 Issue

And It’s Go, Go, Go!

The Race to the Future: The Adventure that Accelerated the Twentieth Century

By Kassia St Clair

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A Camera of One’s Own

Thoroughly Modern: The Pioneering Life of Barbara Ker-Seymer, Photographer, and Her Brilliant, Bohemian Friends

By Sarah Knights

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Sun Kings & Shady Characters

Once Upon a Time World: The Dark and Sparkling Story of the French Riviera

By Jonathan Miles

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Last Dance in Buenos Aires

No One Taught Me to Tango: Memories of Anglo-Argentina

By Trevor Grove

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From the November 2022 Issue

Testament of Friendship

Between Friends: Letters of Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby

By Elaine and English Showalter (edd)

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From Grand Duke to Dustbin Man

After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris Between the Wars

By Helen Rappaport

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Dancing Up a Storm

Diaghilev’s Empire: How the Ballets Russes Enthralled the World

By Rupert Christiansen

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From the December 2021 Issue

In the Land of the Rusalki

Other Worlds: Peasants, Pilgrims, Spirits, Saints

By Teffi (Translated from Russian by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler, Maria Bloshteyn, Anne Marie Jackson, Sabrina Jaszi, Sara Jolly & Nicolas Pasternak Slater)

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Fashion & Fascism

Miss Dior: A Story of Courage and Couture

By Justine Picardie

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From the June 2021 Issue

A Quadrille at the Asylum

The Mad Women’s Ball

By Victoria Mas (Translated from French by Frank Wynne)

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From the May 2021 Issue

Kiss Me, Chudleigh

The Duchess Countess: The Woman Who Scandalised a Nation

By Catherine Ostler

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From the December 2020 Issue

He Looked Best in a Skirt

Dangerous to Show: Byron and His Portraits

By Geoffrey Bond & Christine Kenyon Jones

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From the December 2019 Issue

Must You Stay?

The House Party: A Short History of Leisure, Pleasure and the Country House Weekend

By Adrian Tinniswood

What We Did in Bed: A Horizontal History

By Brian Fagan & Nadia Durrani

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From the May 2019 Issue

A Songbird in Knightsbridge

L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated ‘Female Byron’

By Lucasta Miller

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From the November 2018 Issue

What the Valet Did

Murder by the Book: A Sensational Chapter in Victorian Crime

By Claire Harman

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From the July 2018 Issue

Hostess with the Mostest

Lady M: The Life and Loves of Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne 1751–1818

By Colin Brown

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From the December 2001 Issue

The Black Underwear was a Practical Choice

Painted Shadow: a Life of Vivienne Eliot

By Carole Seymour-Jones

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