Barnaby Crowcroft

World for Sale

Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism

By Philip J Stern

LR

February 2023 Issue

Jonathan Sumption

Cruel Britannia?

Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning

By Nigel Biggar

August 2022 Issue

James Gow

Empire Strikes Back

The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain’s Colonial Legacy

By Philippe Sands

October 1982 Issue

Mihir Bose

Reporting the Third World: Indian Rumours

Crisis in International News

By Jim Richstand and Michael Anderson (Eds)

LR

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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March 2016 Issue

Jan Morris

It’s the Taking Part that Counts

Heroic Failure and the British

By Stephanie Barczewski

LR

October 2008 Issue

Piers Brendon

The Fakir and the Bulldog

Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age

By Arthur Herman

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

June 2007 Issue

Piers Brendon

The Sun Does Set

Britain’s Declining Empire: The Road to Decolonisation, 1918–1968

By Ronald Hyam

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

Bertrand Taithe

Of Arms & Menelik

The Battle of Adwa: African Victory in the Age of Empire

By Raymond Jonas

LR

December 2011 Issue

Kwasi Kwarteng

The Brute Facts

Britain’s Empire: Resistance, Repression and Revolt

By Richard Gott

LR

June 2012 Issue

Matthew Parker

Back to Barbados

Sugar in the Blood: A Family’s Story of Slavery and Empire

By Andrea Stuart

LR

September 2012 Issue

David Gilmour

For Better, For Worse

Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain

By John Darwin

LR

November 2012 Issue

Jane Ridley

Father of Singapore

Raffles and the Golden Opportunity 1781–1826

By Victoria Glendinning

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

April 2014 Issue

Martin Evans

Changing of the Guard

Fight or Flight: Britain, France, and their Roads from Empire

By Martin Thomas

LR

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