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
LR
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
LR
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
LR
June 2020 Issue
Mathew Lyons
Come Hell & High Water
Sons of the Waves: The Common Seaman in the Heroic Age of Sail 1740–1840
By Stephen Taylor
May 2020 Issue
Matthew Parker
Who Do You Drink You Are?
Mr Atkinson’s Rum Contract: The Story of a Tangled Inheritance
By Richard Atkinson
LR
May 2020 Issue
Patricia Fara
The Green-Fingered Lothario
The Multifarious Mr Banks: From Botany Bay to Kew, the Natural Historian Who Shaped the World
By Toby Musgrave
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
May 2020 Issue
Alan Taylor
The Ettrick Shepherd
James Hogg & the Border Country
LR
May 2020 Issue
John McAleer
Viewing India on Acid
Aquatint Worlds: Travel, Print, and Empire, 1770–1820
By Douglas Fordham
LR
April 2020 Issue
Dmitri Levitin
The Mage of Reason
The Decline of Magic: Britain in the Enlightenment
By Michael Hunter
April 2020 Issue
Freya Johnston
Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Dogs
The Fall of the House of Byron: Scandal and Seduction in Georgian England
By Emily Brand
April 2020 Issue
William Doyle
Thirty Years a Slave
Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture
By Sudhir Hazareesingh
February 1990 Issue
Michael De-La-Noy
A Very Tall Story
The Canning Enigma
By John Treherne
LR
March 2020 Issue
Robin Simon
Making Rome Great Again
Piranesi Drawings: Visions of Antiquity
By Sarah Vowles
LR
February 2020 Issue
Dmitri Levitin
O Ye of Little Faith
Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt
By Alec Ryrie
February 2020 Issue
Norma Clarke
Hutch Ado About Nothing
The Imposteress Rabbit Breeder: Mary Toft and Eighteenth-Century England
By Karen Harvey
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