August 2022 Issue
James Gow
Empire Strikes Back
The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain’s Colonial Legacy
By Philippe Sands
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July 2022 Issue
Stephen Vines
What the Governor Saw
The Hong Kong Diaries
By Chris Patten
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February 2022 Issue
Bernard Porter
They Came, They Saw, They Dissented
Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for India’s Freedom
By Ramachandra Guha
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August 2021 Issue
Jane Ridley
England’s Empire Style Interiors
Hidden Heritage: Rediscovering Britain’s Lost Love of the Orient
By Fatima Manji
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June 2021 Issue
Michael Taylor
Send Them Down Under
Condemned: The Transported Men, Women and Children Who Built Britain’s Empire
By Graham Seal
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March 2021 Issue
John Keay
Trial & Empire
Peace, Poverty and Betrayal: A New History of British India
By Roderick Matthews
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February 2021 Issue
Zareer Masani
Boiling with Raj
Time’s Monster: History, Conscience and Britain’s Empire
By Priya Satia
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December 2020 Issue
Rana Mitter
Setting the World Ablaze
Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire
By Tim Harper
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November 2020 Issue
Margarette Lincoln
Muddying the Waters
Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire
By Sujit Sivasundaram
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July 2020 Issue
Abhimanyu Arni
From Bombay to the Green Benches
Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian Nationalism
By Dinyar Patel
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May 2020 Issue
John McAleer
Viewing India on Acid
Aquatint Worlds: Travel, Print, and Empire, 1770–1820
By Douglas Fordham
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November 2019 Issue
Michael Burleigh
Taking Aim at Apartheid
An Unwitting Assassin: The Story of my Father’s Attempted Assassination of Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd
By Susie Cazenove
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October 1982 Issue
Mihir Bose
Reporting the Third World: Indian Rumours
Crisis in International News
By Jim Richstand and Michael Anderson (Eds)
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September 1980 Issue
V.G. Kiernan
Nehru and India
Jawaharlal Nehru: A Biography. Volume Two 1947-1956
By Sarvepalli Gopal
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September 1980 Issue
Nadir Dinshaw
Christ’s Faithful Apostle
The Ordeal of Love, C.F. Andrews and India
By Hugh Tinker
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May 1980 Issue
Savkar Altinel
Murder and Mayhem
The Echo Chamber
By Gabriel Josipovici
The Murder of the Maharajah
By H.R.F. Keating
Russian Hide & Seek
By Kingsley Amis
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September 2019 Issue
John Keay
On Firm Ground
The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
By William Dalrymple
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August 2019 Issue
David Pryce-Jones
Death in the Desert
Captain Gill’s Walking Stick: The True Story of the Sinai Murders
By Saul Kelly
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May 2019 Issue
Lucy Moore
Ladies of the Raj
She-Merchants, Buccaneers & Gentlewomen: British Women in India
By Katie Hickman
May 2001 Issue
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
They Mistook Kenya for the Home Counties
Ornamentalism: How the British Saw their Empire
By David Cannadine
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'"The Last Colony" is, among other things, part of the campaign to shift the British position through political pressure. As with all good propaganda, Sands’s case is based in truth, if not the whole of it.'
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'To her enemies she was the alien temptress who led Charles I away from the "true religion" of Protestantism and towards royal absolutism.'
Lucy Hughes-Hallett reviews @LeandadeLisle's 'colourful', 'persuasive' new biography of Henrietta Maria.
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'Empathy is our moral portal gun, and it jams from underuse.'
Don Paterson on Portal 2, catching Covid on the Eurostar, and rereading Ian Hamilton’s 'Against Oblivion'.
https://literaryreview.co.uk/portal-agony