From the July 2017 Issue Picking up the Pieces The Fear and Freedom: How the Second World War Changed us By Keith Lowe LR
From the April 2015 Issue Partisans in Whitehall Ministers at War: Winston Churchill and his War Cabinet By Jonathan Schneer LR
From the December 2009 Issue ‘Authoritarian, Illiberal, Puritanical’ Family Britain 1951–1957 By David Kynaston LR
From the April 2009 Issue No Turning Back Thatcher’s Britain: The Politics and Social Upheaval of the Thatcher Era By Richard Vinen LR
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From the March 2008 Issue Are We Declining? From Anger to Apathy: The British Experience since 1975 By Mark Garnett LR
From the October 2006 Issue Galoshes Galore Having It So Good: Britain in the Fifties By Peter Hennessy LR
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From the July 2012 Issue Prime Scribbler Mr Churchill’s Profession: Statesman, Orator, Writer By Peter Clarke LR
From the June 2013 Issue Messy Old Life Modernity Britain: Opening the Box, 1957–59 By David Kynaston LR
From the October 2013 Issue Speaking for England The Roar of the Lion: The Untold Story of Churchill’s World War II Speeches By Richard Toye Churchill and Empire By Lawrence James LR
From the December 2013 Issue Don’t Mention the Tube Alloys Churchill’s Bomb: A Hidden History of Science, War and Politics By Graham Farmelo LR
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