From the February 2020 Issue Hutch Ado About Nothing The Imposteress Rabbit Breeder: Mary Toft and Eighteenth-Century England By Karen Harvey
From the December 2018 Issue In Search of Dona Quixote Charlotte Lennox: An Independent Mind By Susan Carlile LR
From the December 2016 Issue Labour of Love Amatory Pleasures: Explorations in Eighteenth-Century Sexual Culture By Julie Peakman LR
From the November 2016 Issue Sir Novelty Back in Fashion Partial Histories: A Reappraisal of Colley Cibber By Elaine M McGirr
From the October 2009 Issue The Harlots’ Progress The Secret History of Georgian London: How the Wages of Sin Shaped the Capital By Dan Cruickshank LR
From the March 2012 Issue Some Years before 1963 The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution By Faramerz Dabhoiwala LR
From the March 2013 Issue Sabrina Fair How to Create the Perfect Wife: Georgian Britain’s Most Ineligible Bachelor and His Quest to Cultivate the Ideal Woman By Wendy Moore LR
From the September 2013 Issue London with the Many Sins The First Bohemians: Life and Art in London’s Golden Age By Vic Gatrell The Beau Monde: Fashionable Society in Georgian London By Hannah Greig LR
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