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Cities

April 2016 Issue

Anthony Sattin

The End of the Silk Road

Aleppo: The Rise and Fall of Syria's Great Merchant City

By Philip Mansel

March 2016 Issue

Jonathan Keates

Treasure Everywhere

The Global City: On the Streets of Renaissance Lisbon

By Annemarie Jordan Gschwend & K J P Lowe (ed)

March 2016 Issue

Jonathan Meades

Capital Gains?

Slow Burn City: London in the Twenty-First Century

By Rowan Moore

February 2016 Issue

Patrick Scrivenor

Lions & Tigers & Bears

The Georgian Menagerie: Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century London

By Christopher Plumb

Menagerie: The History of Exotic Animals in England 1100–1837

By Caroline Grigson

April 1981 Issue

Anita Desai

The Spice of Life

Bengal to Birmingham

By Faizur Rasul

July 2003 Issue

Alan Palmer

A Tale Of One City

Dubrovnik: A History

By Robin Harris

July 2003 Issue

Jonathan Keates

A Portal To Eternity

Paradise of Cities: Venice and Its Nineteenth-Century Visitors

By John Julius Norwich

August 2003 Issue

Allan Massie

Flower Of Scotland

Capital of the Mind: How Edinburgh Changed The World

By James Buchan

September 2003 Issue

Roger Scruton

Tales from the Catacombs

Prague Pictures: Portraits of a City

By John Banville

November 2003 Issue

Tim Heald

The Miscreants’ Metrolpolis

The Birth of Sydney: The Story of Britain's Arrival In The Antipodes

By Tim Flannery (edd, intro)

December 2003 Issue

Christopher Silvester

Atlantic City Vice

The Last Good Time: Skinny D'Amato, The Notorious 500 Club, The Rat Pack & The Rise and Fall of Atlantic City

By Jonathan Van Meter

March 2004 Issue

Michael Jacobs

Castles In The Sky

The Alhambra

By Robert Irwin

March 2004 Issue

Helen Randolph

New Amsterdam, New Amsterdam

The Island at the Centre of the World: The Untold Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Founding of New York

By Russell Shorto

April 2004 Issue

Tom Holland

Beyond Our Ken

London: A Short History

By A N Wilson

Underground London: Trabels Beneath the City Streets

By Stephen Smith

June 2004 Issue

Jane Ridley

From the Sewers

Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City

By Tristram Hunt

July 2004 Issue

Robin Waterfield

An Urban Adventure

Athens: A History - From Ancient Ideal to Modern City

By Robin Waterfield

August 2004 Issue

Francis King

Cosmopolis

Alexandria: City of Memory

By Michael Haag

September 2004 Issue

Bryan Appleyard

The Ruins of The Future

Cities

By John Reader

June 2011 Issue

Jonathan Keates

All Road Lead to Rome

March 2011 Issue

Bryan Appleyard

Going To Town

Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier

By Edward L Glaeser