From the September 2019 Issue For Whom the Handbell Tolls Winds of Change: Britain in the Early Sixties By Peter Hennessy LR
From the August 2019 Issue He Mesmerised Thatcher Enoch Powell: Politics and Ideas in Modern Britain By Paul Corthorn
From the October 2018 Issue Cometh the Hour Churchill: Walking with Destiny By Andrew Roberts Churchill: The Statesman as Artist By David Cannadine (ed)
From the August 2018 Issue From Great Power to PLC The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A Twentieth-century History By David Edgerton LR
From the May 2018 Issue Heir & Graces Rebel Prince: The Power, Passion and Defiance of Prince Charles By Tom Bower LR
From the April 2018 Issue Demonstrate or Procreate The Long ’68: Radical Protest and Its Enemies By Richard Vinen
From the February 2018 Issue Spooked Out Enemies Within: Communists, the Cambridge Spies and the Making of Modern Britain By Richard Davenport-Hines
From the November 2017 Issue What’s Going on? The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: A History of Now By Michael Burleigh
From the August 2017 Issue Home from Home? Lovers and Strangers: An Immigrant History of Post-War Britain By Clair Wills
From the June 2017 Issue The Audacity of Hype Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama By David J Garrow
From the February 2017 Issue Portrait of Pum Gayer-Anderson: The Life and Afterlife of the Irish Pasha By Louise Foxcroft LR
From the August 2016 Issue A Most Violent Year Blood and Sand: Suez, Hungary and the Crisis that Shook the World By Alex von Tunzelmann
From the December 2015 Issue Never Was So Much Owed… No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money By David Lough LR
From the November 2015 Issue Her Militant Tendency Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume Two – Everything She Wants By Charles Moore
From the October 2015 Issue Learning the Lambeth Walk The Maisky Diaries: Red Ambassador to the Court of St James’s 1932–1943 By Gabriel Gorodetsky (ed) (Translated by Tatiana Sorokina & Oliver Ready)
From the June 2015 Issue Vice & Viceroys Closet Queens: Some 20th Century British Politicians By Michael Bloch
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