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Virginia Rounding
A Right Royal Enigma
Henrietta Howard: King’s Mistress, Queen’s Servant
By Tracy Borman
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October 2007 Issue
Alexander Waugh
Flapping About
Bright Young People: The Rise and Fall of a Generation, 1918–1940
By D J Taylor
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September 2007 Issue
David Cesarani
High Rollers
Plutocrats: A Rothschild Inheritance
By George Ireland
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September 2007 Issue
Leslie Mitchell
Derby’s Days
The Forgotten Prime Minister: The 14th Earl of Derby (Volume I: Ascent, 1799–1851)
By Angus Hawkins
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August 2007 Issue
Hugh Massingberd
Sweet and Sour
Princess Margaret: A Life Unravelled
By Tim Heald
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August 2007 Issue
Andro Linklater
His Own Guinea Pig
Suffer and Survive: Gas Attacks, Miners’ Canaries, Spacesuits and the Bends: The Extreme Life of Dr J S Haldane
By Martin Goodman
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August 2007 Issue
John Martin Robinson
By Religious Design
God’s Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain
By Rosemary Hill
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August 2007 Issue
A C Grayling
Locke’s Laundry
Locke: A Biography
By Roger Woolhouse
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July 2007 Issue
Jonathan Sumption
The Trouble With Goths
The Fears of Henry IV: The Life of England’s Self-Made King
By Ian Mortimer
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April 2007 Issue
David Stafford
A Man With No Side
Thirty Secret Years: A G Denniston’s Work in Signals Intelligence 1914–1944
By Robin Denniston
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April 2007 Issue
A C Grayling
Passion & Possibility
Shakespeare the Thinker
By A D Nuttall
Shakespeare Revealed: A Biography
By René Weis
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June 2005 Issue
Carole Angier
His English Elements
Pinter in the Theatre
By Ian Smith (ed)
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June 2005 Issue
Richard Boston
Natural Born Protestor
The Life and Adventures of William Cobbett
By Richard Ingrams
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April 2012 Issue
Edward Norman
King Takes Bishop
Thomas Becket: Warrior, Priest, Rebel, Victim – A 900-Year-Old Story Retold
By John Guy
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April 2012 Issue
Alexandra Harris
Slow Release of Light
Prunella Clough: Regions Unmapped
By Frances Spalding
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May 2012 Issue
Christopher Andrew
Team of His Own
Snow: The Double Life of a World War II Spy
By Nigel West & Madoc Roberts
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June 2012 Issue
Colin Burrow
Prince of Poets
Edmund Spenser: A Life
By Andrew Hadfield
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July 2012 Issue
Toby Thomas
Prurient Puritan
Muckraker: The Scandalous Life and Times of W T Stead
By W Sydney Robinson
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July 2012 Issue
Paul Addison
Prime Scribbler
Mr Churchill’s Profession: Statesman, Orator, Writer
By Peter Clarke
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February 2005 Issue
James Le Fanu
Pickled Parts
The Knife Man: The Extraordinary Life and Times of John Hunter, the Father of Modern Surgery
By Wendy Moore
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