May 2023 Issue Barnaby Crowcroft On the Polo Fields of Egypt A Cultural History of the British Empire By John M MacKenzie 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
March 2016 Issue Jan Morris It’s the Taking Part that Counts Heroic Failure and the British By Stephanie Barczewski LR
June 2008 Issue Tim Richardson Happy Horticulturalists The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession By Andrea Wulf LR
August 2007 Issue David Gilmour Divided It Stands Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire By Alex von Tunzelmann The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan By Yasmin Khan LR
June 2005 Issue Lucy Trench The War of the Rainbow A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage and the Quest for the Colour of Desire By Amy Butler Greenfield LR
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