For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
18th Century & Cultural History

November 2020 Issue

Robert Colls

Let Them Read Catullus

A People’s History of Classics: Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939

By Edith Hall & Henry Stead

February 2020 Issue

Norma Clarke

Hutch Ado About Nothing

The Imposteress Rabbit Breeder: Mary Toft and Eighteenth-Century England

By Karen Harvey

April 2019 Issue

Clare Bucknell

Thinkers & Drinkers

The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age

By Leo Damrosch

August 2018 Issue

Frances Wilson

A Place in the Sun

The Warm South: How the Mediterranean Shaped the British Imagination

By Robert Holland

July 2018 Issue

Susan Owens

Traditionalists & Exhibitionists

The Royal Academy of Arts: History and Collections

By Robin Simon with MaryAnne Stevens (edd)

March 2001 Issue

Sarah Wheeler

A Pistol, a Bible and A Thousand Fur Seals

Selkirk's Island

By Diana Southami

December 2017 Issue

Nicholas Roe

The Birth of Romance

A Revolution of Feeling: The Decade that Forged the Modern Mind

By Rachel Hewitt

August 2017 Issue

Darrin McMahon

Stargazing

The Invention of Celebrity, 1750–1850

By Antoine Lilti (Translated by Lynn Jeffress)

April 2003 Issue

David Cesarani

A Chronicle of Suffering and Spirituality

The Pity of It All: A Portrait of German Jews 1743-1933

By Amos Elon

October 2008 Issue

Patricia Fara

Watchers of the Skies

The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science

By Richard Holmes

September 2013 Issue

Norma Clarke

London with the Many Sins

The First Bohemians: Life and Art in London’s Golden Age

By Vic Gatrell

The Beau Monde: Fashionable Society in Georgian London

By Hannah Greig