Gillian Tindall

Great Scott

Gothic for the Steam Age: An Illustrated Biography of George Gilbert Scott

By Gavin Stamp

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March 2003 Issue

Juliet Barker

A Call to Alms

Hannah More: The First Victorian

By Anne Stott

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March 2003 Issue

Christopher Bray

A Visionary Victorian

Motion Studies: Time, Space and Eadweard Muybridge

By Rebecca Solnit

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April 2003 Issue

William Palmer

When the Circus Came to Town

Kitty and the Prince

By Ben Shepard

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May 2003 Issue

J W M Thompson

Thinker, Scientist, Banker, Spy

Elusive Rothschild: The Life of Victor, Third Baron

By Kenneth Rose

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September 2003 Issue

Patrick Taylor-Martin

The Busiest Man in England

A Thing In Disguise: The Visionary Life of Joseph Paxton

By Kate Colquhoun

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October 2003 Issue

Patrick Taylor-Martin

Carry On Improving

The Great Exhibitor: The Life and Work of Henry Cole

By Elizabeth Bonython, Anthony Burton

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November 2003 Issue

Rupert Christiansen

Relative Values

William and Lucy: The Other Rossettis

By Angela Thirlwell

March 2004 Issue

Andrew Taylor

The Fraudulent Philanthropist

Jabez: The Rise and Fall of a Victorian Scoundrel

By David McKie

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October 2010 Issue

Leslie Mitchell

Billiards, My Dear?

Palmerston: A Biography

By David Brown

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September 2009 Issue

Paul Johnson

The Frozen Deep

Charles Dickens: A Life Defined by Writing

By Michael Slater

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October 2008 Issue

Julia Keay

At the Court of Siam

Bombay Anna: The Real Story and Remarkable Adventures of The King and I Governess

By Susan Morgan

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February 2008 Issue

Paul Johnson

On New Grub Street

George Gissing: A Life

By Paul Delany

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June 2007 Issue

Sarah Wise

The Emperor of Vice

The Fox and the Flies: The World of Joseph Silver, Racketeer and Psychopath

By Charles van Onselen

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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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February 2005 Issue

Adam Sisman

He Lived Too Long

Fiery Heart: The First Life of Leigh Hunt

By Nicholas Roe

The Wit in the Dungeon: Leigh Hunt and His Circle

By Anthony Holden

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October 2012 Issue

John Sutherland

No Smoke without Fire?

The Great Charles Dickens Scandal

By Michael Slater

Dickens and the Workhouse: Oliver Twist and the London Poor

By Ruth Richardson

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November 2012 Issue

John Sutherland

Rowed to Success

Below the Fairy City: A Life of Jerome K Jerome

By Carolyn W de la L Oulton

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December 2012 Issue

Seamus Perry

Laureate of Melancholy

Tennyson: To Strive, To Seek, To Find

By John Batchelor

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Piers Brendon

The Man Who Wouldn’t Shut Up

Macaulay: Britain’s Liberal Imperialist

By Zareer Masani

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