March 2024 Issue
Peter Moore
Mysteries of the Deep
A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks
By David Gibbins
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March 2024 Issue
David Abulafia
Europe and All That
How the World Made the West: A 4,000-Year History
By Josephine Quinn
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February 2024 Issue
Michael Taylor
The Long Road to Emancipation
The Reckoning: From the Second Slavery to Abolition, 1776–1888
By Robin Blackburn
Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade
By Hannah Durkin
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February 2024 Issue
Donald Rayfield
Better Dead Than Red
A Nasty Little War: The West’s Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution
By Anna Reid
LR
February 2024 Issue
Daniel Rey
Priests with Pick Axes
How the Spanish Empire was Built: A 400-Year History
By Felipe Fernández-Armesto & Manuel Lucena Giraldo
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August 2023 Issue
Philip Snow
Tale of Two Empires
The Lion and the Dragon: Britain and China – A History of Conflict
By Lawrence James
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August 2023 Issue
David Edgerton
Curse of Cane
The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years
By Ulbe Bosma
August 2023 Issue
Harold James
Fuzzing It Up
The Economic Government of the World 1933–2023
By Martin Daunton
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December 2022 Issue
Howard Davies
Dr Doom Strikes Again
Megathreats: The Ten Trends That Imperil Our Future, and How to Survive Them
By Nouriel Roubini
November 2022 Issue
Victor Sebestyen
The Theory of Everything
The World: A Family History
By Simon Sebag Montefiore
LR
December 2021 Issue
Daisy Dunn
Out of Attica
The Greeks: A Global History
By Roderick Beaton
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September 2021 Issue
Nigel Andrew
What Will Survive of Us?
A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Chapters
By Henry Gee
May 2021 Issue
Jonathan Sumption
Prime Minister versus Pathogen
Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe
By Niall Ferguson
April 2021 Issue
H Kumarasingham
Power to the Printers
The Gun, the Ship and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions and the Making of the Modern World
By Linda Colley
LR
December 2020 Issue
Paul Kennedy
From Singapore to San Francisco
Unlocking the World: Port Cities and Globalization in the Age of Steam, 1830–1930
By John Darwin
LR
November 2020 Issue
Frances Cairncross
Coming of Age
The Great Demographic Reversal: Ageing Societies, Waning Inequality, and an Inflation Revival
By Charles Goodhart & Manoj Pradhan
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June 2020 Issue
Philip Parker
The Silk Road & the Sandalwood Seas
The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the Globe – and Globalization Began
By Valerie Hansen
LR
February 2020 Issue
Martin Vander Weyer
From Barter to Barclays
More: The 10,000-Year Rise of the World Economy
By Philip Coggan
LR
February 2020 Issue
John Gray
How the West was Lost
The Light that Failed: A Reckoning
By Ivan Krastev & Stephen Holmes
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November 2019 Issue
Patrick Wilcken
Creating Pax Xinguana
People of the Rainforest: The Villas Boas Brothers, Explorers and Humanitarians of the Amazon
By John Hemming
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