May 2025 Issue Munro Price Liberty, Equality, Pornography The Writer’s Lot: Culture and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France By Robert Darnton The Shortest History of France By Colin Jones LR
June 2023 Issue John Adamson Reluctant Monarchist Barnave: The Revolutionary Who Lost His Head for Marie-Antoinette By John Hardman LR
July 2021 Issue John Adamson Night of the Guillotine The Fall of Robespierre: 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris By Colin Jones
September 2019 Issue Munro Price She Wasn’t Just in It for the Dresses Marie-Antoinette: The Making of a French Queen By John Hardman LR
September 1992 Issue Douglas Johnson A Great, Wonderful Storybook A Place of Greater Safety By Hilary Mantel LR
March 1994 Issue Sebastian Faulks First Scandal Sheets Private Lives and Public Affairs: The Causes Celebres of Prerevolutionary France By Sarah Maza
June 2018 Issue Darrin M McMahon Thetford’s Finest Thomas Paine: Britain, America, & France in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution By J C D Clark LR
September 1987 Issue Hilary Mantel Unsolved Mystery of the Dauphin’s Private Parts Marie Antionette By Joan Haslip
June 2016 Issue Lucy Moore Front Row at the Revolution Germaine de Staël: A Political Portrait By Biancamaria Fontana LR
April 2016 Issue William Doyle Power to the People Liberty or Death: The French Revolution By Peter McPhee LR
May 1991 Issue Andrew Roberts He Told Us So The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke Vol VIII: The French Revolution 1790–94 By Edmund Burke (edited by L G Mitchell) LR
March 1996 Issue Julian Barnes Did Light Novels Finish the French Monarchy? The Forbidden Bestsellers of Pre-Revolutionary France By Robert Darnton
April 1987 Issue Hilary Mantel The Last Post Last Letters: Prisons and Prisoners of the French Revolution By Olivier Blanc LR
October 2015 Issue Seamus Deane Civilising Influence Empire & Revolution: The Political Life of Edmund Burke By Richard Bourke LR
February 2015 Issue William Doyle Bring Up the Bodies The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution By Timothy Tackett LR
March 2009 Issue John Adamson Eyewitness To An Era Dancing to the Precipice: Lucie de La Tour du Pin and the French Revolution By Caroline Moorehead LR
September 2006 Issue Allan Massie Dressed To Be Killed Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France By Lucy Moore LR
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