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
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 LR
November 2020 Issue Robert Mayhew Three Cheers for Reason The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680–1790 By Ritchie Robertson LR
May 2020 Issue Donald Rayfield The Monks who Came in from the Cold Spies and Scholars: Chinese Secrets and Imperial Russia’s Quest for World Power By Gregory Afinogenov LR
April 2020 Issue Dmitri Levitin The Mage of Reason The Decline of Magic: Britain in the Enlightenment By Michael Hunter
June 2019 Issue Jane O’Grady In the Beginning was the Word Witcraft: The Invention of Philosophy in English By Jonathan Rée LR
September 2018 Issue Jane Ridley Going Jungly The British in India: Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience By David Gilmour LR
June 2002 Issue Simon Sebag Montefiore Colossus who Married His Best Friend’s Moll Peter the Great: A Biography By Lindsey Hughes
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
August 2008 Issue Roger Crowley Taking on the Turk The Enemy at the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans and the Battle for Europe By Andrew Wheatcroft LR
December 2012 Issue Patricia Fara You Do the Math Poor Robin’s Prophecies: A curious Almanac, and the everyday mathematics of Georgian Britain By Benjamin Wardhaugh LR
December 2012 Issue Jonathan Sumption Trial by Sword The Verdict of Battle: The Law of Victory and the Making of Modern War By James Q Whitman LR
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