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Elspeth Barker
‘Led Away by Paper’
With the Hunted: Selected Writings
By Sylvia Townsend Warner (Edited by Peter Tolhurst)
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Dominic Sandbrook
Did She Or Didn’t She?
‘The Most Remarkable Woman in England’: Poison, Celebrity and the Trials of Beatrice Pace
By John Carter Wood
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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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December 2012 Issue
Piers Brendon
Lords of the Prairie 24
Prairie Fever: How British Aristocrats Staked a Claim to the American West
By Peter Pagnamenta
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December 2012 Issue
Blair Worden
Authority Figure
The Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes – Leviathan Vol 1: Introduction; Vols 2 & 3: The English & Latin Texts
By Edited by Noel Malcolm
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December 2012 Issue
Richard Davenport-Hines
A Refined Palette
In Search of Rex Whistler: His Life & His Work
By Hugh & Mirabel Cecil
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December 2012 Issue
Paul Johnson
Painting for Pleasure
John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1900–1907 – Complete Paintings, Volume VII
By Richard Ormond & Elaine Kilmurray
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December 2012 Issue
Edmund de Waal
Feat of Clay
The Last Sane Man: Michael Cardew – Modern Pots, Colonialism and the Counterculture
By Tanya Harrod
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February 2013 Issue
George Gömöri
Best Friends Forever
The Album Amicorum and the London of Shakespeare’s Time
By June Schlueter
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February 2013 Issue
Jonathan Meades
The Pen & the Spade
Time’s Anvil: England, Archaeology and the Imagination
By Richard Morris
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February 2013 Issue
David Gelber
Behind Closed Doors
Family Secrets: Living with Shame from the Victorians to the Present Day
By Deborah Cohen
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March 2014 Issue
Diana Athill
Rustic Fantastic
Dreams of the Good Life: The Life of Flora Thompson and the Creation of Lark Rise to Candleford
By Richard Mabey
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April 2014 Issue
Andy McSmith
Politics for Sale
A Quiet Word: Lobbying, Crony Capitalism and Broken Politics in Britain
By Tamasin Cave & Andy Rowell
Democracy Ltd: How Money and Donations Corrupted British Politics
By Bobby Friedman
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April 2014 Issue
Robert Colls
Toil & Trouble
The Valley: A Hundred Years in the Life of a Family
By Richard Benson
The People: The Rise and Fall of the Working Class, 1910–2010
By Selina Todd
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April 2014 Issue
Simon Heffer
More Claret than Red
Roy Jenkins: A Well-Rounded Life
By John Campbell
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April 2014 Issue
Miranda Seymour
Flowers in the Smog
The Gardens of the British Working Class
By Margaret Willes
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April 2014 Issue
Jane Ridley
The Marriage Plot
The Disinherited: A Story of Love, Family and Betrayal
By Robert Sackville-West
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February 2013 Issue
J W M Thompson
Unparliamentary Behaviour
An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo
By Richard Davenport-Hines
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February 2013 Issue
Michael Burleigh
At Sixes & Fives
Empire of Secrets: British Intelligence, the Cold War and the Twilight of Empire
By Calder Walton
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February 2013 Issue
Peter Marshall
Come All Ye Faithful
Trent: What Happened at the Council
By John W O’Malley
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It wasn’t until 1825 that Pepys’s diary became available for the first time. How it was eventually decrypted and published is a story of subterfuge and duplicity.
Kate Loveman tells the tale.
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Kate Loveman: Publishing Pepys
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Arthur Christopher Benson was a pillar of the Edwardian establishment. He was supremely well connected. As his newly published diaries reveal, he was also riotously indiscreet.
Piers Brendon compares Benson’s journals to others from the 20th century.
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Piers Brendon: Land of Dopes & Tories - The Benson Diaries: Selections from the Diary of Arthur Christopher Benson by Eamon Duffy & Ronald Hyam (edd)
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Of the siblings Gwen and Augustus John, it is Augustus who has commanded most attention from collectors and connoisseurs.
Was he really the finer artist, asks Tanya Harrod, or is it time Gwen emerged from her brother’s shadow?
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Tanya Harrod: Cut from the Same Canvas - Artists, Siblings, Visionaries: The Lives and Loves of Gwen and Augustus John by Judith Mackrell
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