John Keay

Bristling with Raj

Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India

By Shashi Tharoor

LR

February 2017 Issue

Bijan Omrani

Kilt for Hire

The Tartan Turban: In Search of Alexander Gardner

By John Keay

May 1982 Issue

Kyril FitzLyon

Human Cargo

Children of the Empire

By Gillian Wagner

LR

August 2016 Issue

David Gilmour

Colonial Conundrums

India Conquered: Britain’s Raj and the Chaos of Empire

By Jon Wilson

LR

May 2016 Issue

Leslie Mitchell

Great Expectations

Heyday: Britain and the Birth of the Modern World

By Ben Wilson

LR

March 2016 Issue

Jan Morris

It’s the Taking Part that Counts

Heroic Failure and the British

By Stephanie Barczewski

LR

December 2015 Issue

John Keay

Hermit of the Himalayas

The Prisoner of Kathmandu: Brian Hodgson in Nepal 1820–43

By Charles Allen

LR

August 2015 Issue

Adrian Tinniswood

To the Wild Coast

Willoughbyland: England’s Lost Colony

By Matthew Parker

July 2015 Issue

John Keay

Reluctant Allies

Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War

By Raghu Karnad

The Raj at War: A People’s History of India’s Second World War

By Yasmin Khan

June 2003 Issue

Tim Heald

Sticky Fingers

Imprint of the Raj: How Fingerprinting Was Born in Colonial India

By Chandak Sengoopta

LR

June 2003 Issue

Jonathan Mirsky

Stealing the Crown’s Jewel

The Fall of Hong Kong: Britain, China and the Japanese Occupation

By Philip Snow

LR

June 2003 Issue

Justin Marozzi

Lines In The Sand

Parting the Desert: The Creation of the Suez Canal

By Zachary Karabell

LR

August 2003 Issue

Jonathan Mirsky

The Shanghai Beat

Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift In Shanghai

By Robert Bickers

LR

November 2003 Issue

Christopher Ondaatje

Trouble Brewing

Tea: Addiction, Exploitation and Empire

By Roy Moxham

LR

February 2004 Issue

Andrew Lycett

Following The Pharohs

Lord Cromer: Victorian Imperialist, Edwardian Proconsul

By Roger Owen

LR

March 2004 Issue

William Palmer

Coastal Calamity

The Caliban Shore: The Fate of the Grosvenor Castaways

By Stephen Taylor

LR

September 2004 Issue

What Really Happened At Rorke’s Drift

Zulu: The Heroism and Tragedy of the Zulu War of 1879

By Saul David

LR

September 2004 Issue

Simon Heffer

The Pride of the Fleet

The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649-1815

By N A M Rodger

LR

September 2009 Issue

Lindy Burleigh

Everybody Under the Sun

The Daily Telegraph Book of Imperial and Commonwealth Obituaries

By David Twiston Davies (ed)

LR

September 2009 Issue

Stephen Brumwell

A Real Cliffhanger

Death or Victory: The Battle of Quebec and the Birth of Empire

By Dan Snow

LR

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