May 2020 Issue John McAleer Viewing India on Acid Aquatint Worlds: Travel, Print, and Empire, 1770–1820 By Douglas Fordham LR
September 2019 Issue John Keay On Firm Ground The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company By William Dalrymple LR
September 2018 Issue Jane Ridley Going Jungly The British in India: Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience By David Gilmour LR
August 2018 Issue Frank Prochaska Transatlantic Tussles The Lion and the Eagle: The Interaction of the British and American Empires 1783–1972 By Kathleen Burk 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
December 2007 Issue Leslie Mitchell Keeping an Eye on the Neighbours Three Victories and a Defeat: The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire, 1714–1783 By Brendan Simms LR
October 2007 Issue Saul David Better Than The Romans The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781–1997 By Piers Brendon LR
June 2005 Issue Nigel Jones An Uncivil War 1776: When Britain and America Went to War By David McCullough LR
December 2011 Issue Kwasi Kwarteng The Brute Facts Britain’s Empire: Resistance, Repression and Revolt By Richard Gott LR
February 2005 Issue Saul David Cry Freedom Bury the Chains: The British Struggle to Abolish Slavery By Adam Hochschild Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugees By Caroline Moorehead LR
November 2012 Issue Jane Ridley Father of Singapore Raffles and the Golden Opportunity 1781–1826 By Victoria Glendinning LR
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