October 2021 Issue Dmitri Levitin How Philology Changed the World The Italian Renaissance and the Origins of the Modern Humanities: An Intellectual History, 1400–1800 By Christopher S Celenza LR
July 2019 Issue Felipe Fernández-Armesto A Polymath’s Progress Thomas Harriot: A Life in Science By Robyn Arianrhod LR
April 2019 Issue Alexandra Walsham The Curious Case of the White Radishes The Voices of Nîmes: Women, Sex, and Marriage in Reformation Languedoc By Suzannah Lipscomb LR
December 2016 Issue Faramerz Dabhoiwala Living the Dream Sleep in Early Modern England By Sasha Handley
May 2016 Issue Peter Moore ‘Great South Land of the Holy Spirit’ The Savage Shore: Extraordinary Stories of Survival and Tragedy from the Early Voyages of Discovery By Graham Seal LR
December 2004 Issue C A R Hills The Whole World for Their Grave A History of Portuguese Overseas Expansion 1400-1668 By Malyn Newitt LR
February 2008 Issue John Adamson Pursuit of the Pastoral Earls of Paradise: England and the Dream of Perfection By Adam Nicolson LR
February 2014 Issue John Adamson Scots at the Top Rebellion: Britain’s First Stuart Kings, 1567–1642 By Tim Harris 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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