March 2024 Issue
Barnaby Crowcroft
World for Sale
Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism
By Philip J Stern
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March 2024 Issue
Allan Massie
Becoming George Orwell
Burma Sahib
By Paul Theroux
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March 2024 Issue
David Bromwich
Enthusiasm and Its Discontents
The End of Enlightenment: Empire, Commerce, Crisis
By Richard Whatmore
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October 2023 Issue
Saul David
On Dune and Headland Sinks the Fire
One Fine Day: 29 September 1923 – Britain’s Empire on the Brink
By Matthew Parker
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September 2023 Issue
Barnaby Crowcroft
Things Fall Apart
Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain
By Charlotte Lydia Riley
May 2023 Issue
Barnaby Crowcroft
On the Polo Fields of Egypt
A Cultural History of the British Empire
By John M MacKenzie
LR
February 2023 Issue
Jonathan Sumption
Cruel Britannia?
Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning
By Nigel Biggar
December 2022 Issue
Barnaby Crowcroft
When African Royalty Went Dog Racing
Emirs in London: Subaltern Travel and Nigeria’s Modernity
By Moses E Ochonu
LR
December 2022 Issue
Bernard Porter
Bloody Britain?
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire
By Caroline Elkins
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August 2022 Issue
James Gow
Empire Strikes Back
The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain’s Colonial Legacy
By Philippe Sands
July 2022 Issue
Stephen Vines
What the Governor Saw
The Hong Kong Diaries
By Chris Patten
LR
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
LR
June 2021 Issue
Michael Taylor
Send Them Down Under
Condemned: The Transported Men, Women and Children Who Built Britain’s Empire
By Graham Seal
LR
March 2021 Issue
John Keay
Trial & Empire
Peace, Poverty and Betrayal: A New History of British India
By Roderick Matthews
LR
February 2021 Issue
Zareer Masani
Boiling with Raj
Time’s Monster: History, Conscience and Britain’s Empire
By Priya Satia
LR
December 2020 Issue
Rana Mitter
Setting the World Ablaze
Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire
By Tim Harper
LR
November 2020 Issue
Margarette Lincoln
Muddying the Waters
Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire
By Sujit Sivasundaram
LR
July 2020 Issue
Abhimanyu Arni
From Bombay to the Green Benches
Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian Nationalism
By Dinyar Patel
LR
May 2020 Issue
John McAleer
Viewing India on Acid
Aquatint Worlds: Travel, Print, and Empire, 1770–1820
By Douglas Fordham
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