From the November 2024 Issue With God on Her Side When Courage Calls: Josephine Butler and the Radical Pursuit of Justice for Women By Sarah C Williams LR
From the June 2024 Issue Scholarship, Slander & Sherry History in the House: Some Remarkable Dons and the Teaching of Politics, Character and Statecraft By Richard Davenport-Hines
From the March 2024 Issue Where Wren Meets Richard Rogers The City in the City: Architecture and Change in London’s Financial District By Amy Thomas LR
From the December 2023 Issue Who’s Afraid of Flying Buttresses? Architecture in Britain and Ireland, 1530–1830 By Steven Brindle LR
From the July 2023 Issue The Students Who Went to Sea The Floating University: Experience, Empire, and the Politics of Knowledge By Tamson Pietsch
From the December 2021 Issue The Great Wen Riseth London: 1870–1914 – A City at Its Zenith By Andrew Saint LR
From the July 2021 Issue Dreaming in Concrete Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances: Finding a Home in the Ruins of Modernism By Owen Hatherley Mass Housing: Modern Architecture and State Power – a Global History By Miles Glendinning LR
From the May 2019 Issue A Cheat Dog-Collared The Professor & the Parson: A Story of Desire, Deceit & Defrocking By Adam Sisman
From the November 2018 Issue A Plague on All Your Glass Towers Making Dystopia: The Strange Rise and Survival of Architectural Barbarism By James Stevens Curl LR
From the September 2016 Issue The Battle of Big Ben Mr Barry’s War: Rebuilding the Houses of Parliament After the Great Fire of 1834 By Caroline Shenton LR
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Nick Harkaway, John le Carré's son, has gone back to the 1960s with a new novel featuring his father's anti-hero, George Smiley.
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