October 2020 Issue Freya Johnston We are Family The Good Sharps: The Brothers and Sisters Who Remade Their World By Hester Grant LR
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April 2019 Issue Clare Bucknell Thinkers & Drinkers The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age By Leo Damrosch
August 2007 Issue Leo McKinstry Pioneers at Work The Industrial Revolutionaries: The Creation of the Modern World 1776–1914 By Gavin Weightman 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
October 2012 Issue Bryan Appleyard Some Capital Painters The Company of Artists: The Origins of the Royal Academy of Arts in London By Charles Saumarez Smith LR
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In the nine centuries since his death, El Cid has been presented as a prototypical crusader, a paragon of religious toleration and the progenitor of a united Spain.
David Abulafia goes in search of the real El Cid.
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