September 2018 Issue Jane Ridley Going Jungly The British in India: Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience By David Gilmour LR
August 2018 Issue Lucy Moore Loom & Bust The Queen’s Embroiderer: A True Story of Paris, Lovers, Swindlers, and the First Stock Market Crisis By Joan DeJean LR
July 2018 Issue Shahidha Bari Doffing a Tricorne Pretty Gentlemen: Macaroni Men and the Eighteenth-Century Fashion World By Peter McNeil
July 2018 Issue Jason Pearl A Horse Performer Writes Memoirs on the Life and Travels of Thomas Hammond, 1748–1775 By George E Boulukos (ed) LR
December 2016 Issue Faramerz Dabhoiwala Living the Dream Sleep in Early Modern England By Sasha Handley
September 1991 Issue Michael Waterhouse They All Enjoyed a Good Hanging The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century By Peter Linebaugh LR
October 2015 Issue Wendy Moore Hostess with the Mostess Peg Plunkett: Memoirs of a Whore By Julie Peakman LR
June 2015 Issue Gavin Jacobson Talking Shop The World of the Salons: Sociability and Worldliness in Eighteenth-Century Paris By Antoine Lilti (Translated by Lydia G Cochrane) LR
March 2004 Issue Miranda Seymour Sandwich Scandal Sentimental Murder: Love and Madness in the Eighteenth Century By John Brewer LR
April 2004 Issue Andrew Lycett Love Behind A Mask A Venetian Affair: A True Story of Impossible Love in the Eighteenth Century By Andrea di Robilant LR
August 2006 Issue Catherine Peters The Lust for Acquisition Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain By Judith Flanders Waxing Mythical: The Life and Legend of Madame Tussaud By Kate Berridge LR
October 2008 Issue Nigel Jones Life on the Ocean Wave Jack Tar: Life in Nelson's Navy By Roy & Lesley Adkins 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
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