From the May 2022 Issue Cricketer & Communist C L R James: A Life Beyond the Boundaries By John L Williams
From the April 2022 Issue Past Masters Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past By Richard Cohen LR
From the February 2022 Issue Palazzos by the Thames London’s ‘Golden Mile’: The Great Houses of the Strand, 1550–1650 By Manolo Guerci LR
From the September 2019 Issue Three Cheers for Thurrock Excellent Essex: In Praise of England’s Most Misunderstood County By Gillian Darley
From the October 2018 Issue A Decanter of Deacons A Field Guide to the English Clergy: A Compendium of Diverse Eccentrics, Pirates, Prelates and Adventurers; All Anglican, Some Even Practising By Fergus Butler-Gallie LR
From the February 2016 Issue Car Park King Richard III: A Ruler and His Reputation By David Horspool LR
From the February 2015 Issue ‘Re-enchanting the World’ The Oxford Illustrated History of the Reformation By Peter Marshall (ed) LR
From the June 2014 Issue Anglosphere of Influence How We Invented Freedom & Why It Matters By Daniel Hannan LR
From the September 2012 Issue Games of Thrones The History of England, Volume II: Tudors By Peter Ackroyd LR
From the February 2013 Issue English Bullies, Spanish Bullion Elizabeth’s Sea Dogs: How the English became the Scourge of the Seas By Hugh Bicheno LR
From the April 2013 Issue Altered States Leviathan: The Rise of Britain as a World Power By David Scott LR
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