July 2020 Issue Abhimanyu Arni From Bombay to the Green Benches Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian Nationalism By Dinyar Patel LR
March 1999 Issue Bryan Appleyard How They All Admired Us Before We Fell Apart Voltaire's Coconuts: Or Anglomania in Europe By Ian Buruma
February 2003 Issue Jan Morris The Sun Will Set Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World By Niall Ferguson
May 2016 Issue Leslie Mitchell Great Expectations Heyday: Britain and the Birth of the Modern World By Ben Wilson LR
June 2008 Issue Tim Richardson Happy Horticulturalists The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession By Andrea Wulf 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
November 2007 Issue Jonathan Mirsky Tropical Fever Sylvia, Queen of the Headhunters: An Outrageous Englishwoman and Her Lost Kingdom By Philip Eade LR
October 2007 Issue Saul David Better Than The Romans The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781–1997 By Piers Brendon LR
July 2014 Issue John Edwards In Spanish Steps World Without End: The Global Empire of Philip II By Hugh Thomas LR
August 2007 Issue Simon Heffer Decline and Fall The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire By Peter Clarke LR
December 2011 Issue Michael Burleigh Imperial Insights Memories of Empire, Volume 1: The White Man’s World By Bill Schwarz LR
December 2011 Issue Kwasi Kwarteng The Brute Facts Britain’s Empire: Resistance, Repression and Revolt By Richard Gott LR
April 2012 Issue Felipe Fernández-Armesto Reality Entertainment Peoples on Parade: Exhibitions, Empire, and Anthropology in Nineteenth-Century Britain By Sadiah Qureshi 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
September 2012 Issue Leslie Mitchell Men of Their Time Macaulay and Son: Architects of Imperial Britain By Catherine Hall LR
September 2012 Issue Andrew Lycett Maiden Voyages The Fishing Fleet: Husband-Hunting in the Raj By Anne de Courcy LR
September 2012 Issue David Gilmour For Better, For Worse Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain By John Darwin LR
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 LR
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