December 2025 Issue
Daisy Dunn
O, Lesbia!
Clodia of Rome: Champion of the Republic
By Douglas Boin
LR
December 2025 Issue
Anna Reid
Little Women, Big State
Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, From Revolution to Autocracy
By Julia Ioffe
LR
December 2025 Issue
John Foot
Grave Matters
Travels Through the Spanish Civil War
By Nick Lloyd
El Generalísimo: Franco – Power, Violence and the Quest for Greatness
By Giles Tremlett
LR
December 2025 Issue
David Andress
Exquisite Corpse
Jean-Paul Marat: Prophet of Terror
By Keith Michael Baker
LR
December 2025 Issue
Edward Shawcross
The Real American Revolution
Mexico: A History
By Paul Gillingham
November 2025 Issue
Edward Short
Imperial Crucible
Republic and Empire: Crisis, Revolution, and America’s Early Independence
By Trevor Burnard & Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy
LR
November 2025 Issue
James Snell
Fall of the House of Assad
It Started in Damascus: How the Long Syrian Revolution Reshaped Our World
By Rime Allaf
LR
November 2025 Issue
Tom Shippey
927 and All That
The First King of England: Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom
By David Woodman
LR
November 2025 Issue
Henry Day
Microscopes Out
The Small Stuff of Roman Antiquity
By Emily Gowers
LR
November 2025 Issue
Jonathan Keates
Over Troubled Water
Waterloo Bridge and London River: Investigations and Reflections
By Andrew Saint
LR
November 2025 Issue
David Abulafia
Nomadic Knowledge
Crucible of Light: Islam and the Forging of Europe from the 8th to the 21st Century
By Elizabeth Drayson
LR
November 2025 Issue
Daniel Rey
Voyages of Discovery
The Nine Lives of Christopher Columbus
By Matthew Restall
LR
November 2025 Issue
David Stafford
Hungary’s War
The Last Days of Budapest: Spies, Nazis, Rescuers and Resistance, 1940–1945
By Adam LeBor
LR
November 2025 Issue
Nigel Jones
Dangers of the Deep
Wolfpack: Inside Hitler's U-Boat War
By Roger Moorhouse
LR
October 2025 Issue
Nigel Andrew
This Sceptered Isle
The Discovery of Britain: An Accidental History
By Graham Robb
LR
September 2025 Issue
Stephen Bates
Dirty Dowries
Heiresses: Marriage, Inheritance and Caribbean Slavery
By Miranda Kaufmann
LR
August 2025 Issue
Zoe Guttenplan
Font of Information
Type Designers of the Twentieth Century
By David Jury
LR
August 2025 Issue
Peter Marshall
Divided We Stand
The Mirror of Great Britain: A Life of James VI & I
By Clare Jackson
LR
August 2025 Issue
Nigel Jones
Houses of the Holy
Twelve Churches: An Unlikely History of the Buildings That Made Christianity
By Fergus Butler-Gallie
LR
July 2025 Issue
Tim Whitmarsh
Roots of The Republic
Plato and the Tyrant: The Fall of Greece’s Greatest Dynasty and the Making of a Philosophical Masterpiece
By James Romm
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