June 2021 Issue
Freya Johnston
A Writer’s Revenge
The Poet and the Publisher: The Case of Alexander Pope, Esq., of Twickenham versus Edmund Curll, Bookseller in Grub Street
By Pat Rogers
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May 2021 Issue
Adrian Tinniswood
With This Ring I Thee Possess
Inheritance: The Lost History of Mary Davies
By Leo Hollis
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May 2021 Issue
Miranda Seymour
Kiss Me, Chudleigh
The Duchess Countess: The Woman Who Scandalised a Nation
By Catherine Ostler
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May 2021 Issue
Caroline Moorehead
Green-Fingered Emperor
Napoleon: A Life in Gardens and Shadows
By Ruth Scurr
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March 2021 Issue
John Gribbin
Cosmic Thoughts, Worldly Desires
Life after Gravity: Isaac Newton’s London Career
By Patricia Fara
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March 2021 Issue
Ritchie Robertson
Quill & Sceptre
Frederick the Great’s Philosophical Writings
By Avi Lifschitz (ed)
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February 2021 Issue
Judith Hawley
Mary, Quite Contrary
Wollstonecraft: Philosophy, Passion, and Politics
By Sylvana Tomaselli
February 2021 Issue
Frank McLynn
Blazing Comet Falls to Earth
The Warrior and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation
By Peter Cozzens
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December 2020 Issue
Stuart Isacoff
Piano Man
Mozart: The Reign of Love
By Jan Swafford
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December 2020 Issue
Charles Elliott
They Risked Their Lives for Flowers
Planting the World: Joseph Banks and His Collectors – An Adventurous History of Botany
By Jordan Goodman
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December 2020 Issue
Peter Davidson
Mighty Contests & Trivial Things
Alexander Pope in the Making
By Joseph Hone
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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
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November 2020 Issue
James Hamilton
Artist of the Night
Joseph Wright of Derby: Painter of Darkness
By Matthew Craske
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November 2020 Issue
Robert Mayhew
Three Cheers for Reason
The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680–1790
By Ritchie Robertson
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November 2020 Issue
David Blow
Best of Enemies
America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present
By John Ghazvinian
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November 2020 Issue
Adrian Tinniswood
True to Type
The Paper Chase: The Printer, the Spymaster, and the Hunt for the Rebel Pamphleteers
By Joseph Hone
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October 2020 Issue
Darrin M McMahon
With a Nudge & a Wink
The Craft: How the Freemasons Made the Modern World
By John Dickie
October 2020 Issue
Freya Johnston
We are Family
The Good Sharps: The Brothers and Sisters Who Remade Their World
By Hester Grant
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October 2020 Issue
Robin Simon
He Painted It Black
Goya: A Portrait of the Artist
By Janis A Tomlinson
July 2020 Issue
Emma Griffin
Before the Offside Rule
This Sporting Life: Sport and Liberty in England, 1760–1960
By Robert Colls
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