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Christopher Hart
Rolling in It
Dirty Old London: The Victorian Fight against Filth
By Lee Jackson
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Seamus Perry
Eat, Drink & Be Merry
The Immortal Evening: A Legendary Dinner with Keats, Wordsworth, and Lamb
By Stanley Plumly
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William Packer
Sex, Too, Is Useful
Creators: From Chaucer to Walt Disney
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August 2006 Issue
William Palmer
The Ragman’s Trumpet
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August 2006 Issue
David Watkin
Help!
Interpreting the Renaissance: Princes, Cities and Architecture
By Manfredo Tafuri (Translated by Daniel Sherer)
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Thomas Marks
Making Strides
The Lost Art of Walking: The History, Science, Philosophy, Literature, Theory and Practice of Pedestrianism
By Geoff Nicholson
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March 2011 Issue
Frederic Raphael
No Alcibiades!
The Classical Tradition
By Anthony Grafton, Glenn W Most and Salvatore Settis
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March 2011 Issue
Eric Kaufmann
Swimming Beyond the Mainstream
Holy Ignorance: When Religion and Culture Part Ways
By Olivier Roy (Translated by Ros Schwartz)
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March 2011 Issue
John Sutherland
My Own Private Idiolect
The Language Wars: A History of Proper English
By Henry Hitchings
The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel
By Nicholas Ostler
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Frederic Raphael
The New Bullshit
The Death of French Culture
By Donald Morrison and Antoine Compagnon
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Hugh Haughton
On The Eliots’ Table
The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines: Volume I, Britain and Ireland 1880–1955
By Peter Brooker and Andrew Thacker (eds)
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April 2009 Issue
Donald Rayfield
Portraits of Persecution
Red Star over Russia: A Visual History of the Soviet Union from 1917 to the Death of Stalin
By David King
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February 2009 Issue
Anthony Daniels
Doctor, Doctor
Taking the Medicine: A Short History of Medicine’s Beautiful Idea and Our Difficulty Swallowing It
By Druin Burch
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February 2009 Issue
Raymond Seitz
E Pluribus Unum
America, Empire of Liberty: A New History
By David Reynolds
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August 2008 Issue
Charles Saumarez-Smith
National Trust
Who Owns Antiquity? Museums and the Battle over Our Ancient Heritage
By James Cuno
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August 2008 Issue
Jonathan Mirsky
Reforming Opinions
The Battle for China's Past: Mao & the Cultural Revolution
By Mobo Gao
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August 2014 Issue
Alex Danchev
Band of Bohemians
In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and Modernism in Paris 1900–1910
By Sue Roe
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August 2014 Issue
Brian Dillon
Lost Soles
A Shoe Story: Van Gogh, the Philosophers and the West
By Lesley Chamberlain
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August 2008 Issue
Sara Wheeler
A Maori in Massachussetts
Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All: An Unlikely Love Story
By Christina Thompson
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September 2008 Issue
Michael Holman
Les Fous D’Afrique
Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles
By Richard Dowden
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