From the October 2014 Issue Beginning to Swing Modernity Britain: A Shake of the Dice, 1959–62 By David Kynaston LR
From the September 2011 Issue What Came After Ghosts of Empire: Britain’s Legacies in the Modern World By Kwasi Kwarteng LR
From the February 2011 Issue For King and Countries Liberty’s Exiles: The Loss of America and the Remaking of the British Empire By Maya Jasanoff LR
From the March 2010 Issue ‘Low, Dishonest Decade’ The Thirties: An Intimate History By Juliet Gardiner LR
From the February 2010 Issue What Winston Really Wanted Churchill’s Empire: The World that Made Him and the World He Made By Richard Toye LR
From the October 2008 Issue The Fakir and the Bulldog Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age By Arthur Herman LR
From the November 2007 Issue Indian Inspiration Kipling Sahib: India and the Making of Rudyard Kipling By Charles Allen LR
From the June 2007 Issue The Sun Does Set Britain’s Declining Empire: The Road to Decolonisation, 1918–1968 By Ronald Hyam LR
From the February 2006 Issue First In Her Field The Excellent Doctor Blackwell: The Life of the First Woman Physician By Julia Boyd LR
From the April 2012 Issue Never the Twain Shall Meet A Dance with the Dragon: The Vanished World of Peking’s Foreign Colony By Julia Boyd LR
From the December 2012 Issue Lords of the Prairie 24 Prairie Fever: How British Aristocrats Staked a Claim to the American West By Peter Pagnamenta LR
From the April 2014 Issue Was His Pen Mightier Than His Sword? The Literary Churchill: Author, Reader, Actor By Jonathan Rose LR
From the February 2013 Issue Baiting the Tigers Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan By William Dalrymple LR
From the February 2014 Issue Propping up the Roof of the World Tibet: An Unfinished Story By Lezlee Brown Halper & Stefan Halper LR
From the July 2013 Issue The Man Who Wouldn’t Shut Up Macaulay: Britain’s Liberal Imperialist By Zareer Masani LR
From the December 2013 Issue ‘Kill the Bolshie. Kiss the Hun’ Operation Unthinkable: The Third World War – British Plans to Attack the Soviet Empire, 1945 By Jonathan Walker LR
From the April 2013 Issue The Road from Carlyle James Anthony Froude: An Intellectual Biography of a Victorian Prophet By Ciaran Brady LR
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