August 2007 Issue
Simon Heffer
Decline and Fall
The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire
By Peter Clarke
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August 2007 Issue
Max Egremont
Terror of the Trenches
World War One: A Short History
By Norman Stone
Diary of a Dead Officer: Being the Posthumous Papers of Arthur Graeme West
By Arthur Graeme West (Introduction by Nigel Jones)
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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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July 2007 Issue
David Kynaston
East End Chronicles
Call the Midwife
By Jennifer Worth
Family and Kinship in East London
By Michael Young and Peter Willmott
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June 2007 Issue
Hugh Massingberd
This Green Plot
The Park: The Story of the Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park
By David Conville
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June 2007 Issue
John Jolliffe
A King, Not A Doge
Return of the King: The Restoration of Charles II
By Charles Fitzroy
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June 2007 Issue
Peter Parsons
Valete Romani!
Farewell Britannia: A Family Saga of Roman Britain
By Simon Young
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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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September 2006 Issue
Roy Hattersley
‘They Never Swung For Me’
White Heat
By Dominic Sandbrook
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June 2005 Issue
Betka Zamoyska
The Actress, the King, and Squintabella
Nell Gwyn: A Biography
By Charles Beauclerk
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December 2011 Issue
Michael Burleigh
Imperial Insights
Memories of Empire, Volume 1: The White Man’s World
By Bill Schwarz
LR
December 2011 Issue
Kwasi Kwarteng
The Brute Facts
Britain’s Empire: Resistance, Repression and Revolt
By Richard Gott
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December 2011 Issue
Vernon Bogdanor
Lion, Harp & Unicorn
The Two Unions: Ireland, Scotland, and the Survival of the United Kingdom, 1707–2007
By Alvin Jackson
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April 2012 Issue
Chandak Sengoopta
Getting to Know You
Identifying the English: A History of Personal Identification 1500 to the Present
By Edward Higgs
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April 2012 Issue
Leslie Mitchell
Capital Gains
London in the Eighteenth Century: A Great and Monstrous Thing
By Jerry White
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April 2012 Issue
Peter Jones
Land of Swamps & Sorties
The Romans Who Shaped Britain
By Sam Moorhead & David Stuttard
LR
April 2012 Issue
Edward Norman
King Takes Bishop
Thomas Becket: Warrior, Priest, Rebel, Victim – A 900-Year-Old Story Retold
By John Guy
LR
April 2012 Issue
Frank McLynn
Just William?
The Norman Conquest
By Marc Morris
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April 2012 Issue
Miranda Seymour
Stuck in the Mittel
Keeping Up with the Germans: A History of Anglo-German Encounters
By Philip Oltermann
LR
May 2012 Issue
Katharine Whitehorn
Escaping the Mad Men
The Fifties Mystique
By Jessica Mann
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