From the November 2020 Issue The Joy of Sewers Metropolis: A History of Humankind’s Greatest Invention By Ben Wilson LR
From the June 2019 Issue Eruptions of Knowledge In the Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny By Daisy Dunn
From the March 2015 Issue Seizing the Fertile Crescent In God’s Path: The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire By Robert G Hoyland LR
From the April 2004 Issue Beyond Our Ken London: A Short History By A N Wilson Underground London: Trabels Beneath the City Streets By Stephen Smith LR
From the October 2014 Issue Ladies First The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World By Adrienne Mayor LR
From the December 2008 Issue The Glory of Kingdoms Babylon: Myth and Reality By The British Museum 13 November 2008–15 March 2009 Babylon: Myth and Reality By Edited by I L Finkel and M J Seymour LR
From the April 2008 Issue To Be Frank… God’s Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570–1215 By David Levering Lewis LR
From the June 2013 Issue By the Rivers of Nineveh The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon: An Elusive World Wonder Traced By Stephanie Dalley LR
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