Jane Ridley

Going Jungly

The British in India: Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience

By David Gilmour

LR

August 2018 Issue

Bijan Omrani

Great Game Changer

Afghanistan in the Age of Empires

By Farrukh Husain

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

August 2018 Issue

John Keay

From Kensington to Kathmandu

The Last Englishmen: Love, War and the End of Empire

By Deborah Baker

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

August 2017 Issue

John Keay

Reading the Leaves

A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World

By Erika Rappaport

LR

August 2017 Issue

Felipe Fernández-Armesto

All They Could Eat

The Hungry Empire: How Britain’s Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World

By Lizzie Collingham

LR

July 2017 Issue

Anne Somerset

The Heat is On

One Hot Summer: Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858

By Rosemary Ashton

LR

March 2017 Issue

John Keay

Bristling with Raj

Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India

By Shashi Tharoor

LR

May 1982 Issue

Kyril FitzLyon

Human Cargo

Children of the Empire

By Gillian Wagner

LR

August 2016 Issue

Piers Brendon

A Most Violent Year

Blood and Sand: Suez, Hungary and the Crisis that Shook the World

By Alex von Tunzelmann

August 2016 Issue

David Gilmour

Colonial Conundrums

India Conquered: Britain’s Raj and the Chaos of Empire

By Jon Wilson

LR

May 2016 Issue

Leslie Mitchell

Great Expectations

Heyday: Britain and the Birth of the Modern World

By Ben Wilson

LR

August 2015 Issue

Adrian Tinniswood

To the Wild Coast

Willoughbyland: England’s Lost Colony

By Matthew Parker

July 2015 Issue

John Keay

Reluctant Allies

Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War

By Raghu Karnad

The Raj at War: A People’s History of India’s Second World War

By Yasmin Khan

June 2003 Issue

Tim Heald

Sticky Fingers

Imprint of the Raj: How Fingerprinting Was Born in Colonial India

By Chandak Sengoopta

LR

August 2006 Issue

Jonathan Mirsky

Seeking Shangri-La

The High Road to China: George Bogle, the Panchen Lama and the First British Expedition to Tibet

By Kate Teltscher

LR

September 2009 Issue

Stephen Brumwell

A Real Cliffhanger

Death or Victory: The Battle of Quebec and the Birth of Empire

By Dan Snow

LR

May 2009 Issue

Jonathan Mirsky

Found At Sea

Sweet Water and Bitter: The Ships That Stopped the Slave Trade

By Sîân Rees

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

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