November 2024 Issue
Freya Johnston
Oratorio of Oratorios
Every Valley: The Story of Handel’s Messiah
By Charles King
November 2024 Issue
Nicholas Rankin
We Shall Fight in the Buttery
Oxford’s War 1939–1945
By Ashley Jackson
November 2024 Issue
Will Wiles
Architects Behaving Badly
A Short History of British Architecture, from Stonehenge to the Shard
By Simon Jenkins
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November 2024 Issue
Diane Purkiss
King Oliver or Citizen Cromwell?
Republic: Britain’s Revolutionary Decade, 1649–1660
By Alice Hunt
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November 2024 Issue
Philip Parker
To the End of the Sea
Ocean: A History of the Atlantic Before Columbus
By John Haywood
LR
November 2024 Issue
Henry Gee
Neanderthal Resources
Human Peoples: On the Genetic Traces of Human Evolution, Migration and Adaptation
By Lluís Quintana-Murci (Translated from French by Howard Curtis)
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October 2024 Issue
Peter Marshall
Mothers, Mystics & Martyrs
Women and the Reformations: A Global History
By Merry Wiesner-Hanks
LR
October 2024 Issue
Anne Perkins
Driven to Distraction
Precipice
By Robert Harris
LR
October 2024 Issue
Donald Rayfield
Clerics & Crooks
The Baton and the Cross: Russia’s Church from Pagans to Putin
By Lucy Ash
LR
September 2024 Issue
John Keay
Krishna Goes to Sea
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
By William Dalrymple
September 2024 Issue
Howard Davies
Bad Investment
Money: A Story of Humanity
By David McWilliams
LR
September 2024 Issue
Richard Ovenden
Blessed are the Copyists
History in Flames: The Destruction and Survival of Medieval Manuscripts
By Robert Bartlett
LR
September 2024 Issue
Richard Vinen
Tories on the Home Front
Blue Jerusalem: British Conservatism, Winston Churchill, and the Second World War
By Kit Kowol
LR
September 2024 Issue
Thomas Shippey
At Home With Odin
Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age
By Eleanor Barraclough
LR
September 2024 Issue
Stuart Jeffries
I, Algorithm
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
By Yuval Noah Harari
LR
September 2024 Issue
Tim Stanley
Kindred Spirits
American Bloods: The Untamed Dynasty That Shaped a Nation
By John Kaag
LR
August 2024 Issue
Alexander Christie-Miller
Off with His Fez
The Endless Country: A Personal Journey Through Turkey’s First Hundred Years
By Sami Kent
August 2024 Issue
Diana Darke
Syria Ablaze
The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Destruction of the Old Ottoman World
By Eugene Rogan
LR
August 2024 Issue
Bijan Omrani
Playground of the Gods
Land Between the Rivers: A 5,000-Year History of Iraq
By Bartle Bull
LR
August 2024 Issue
Jonathan Boff
Fortune Favours the Flexible
The Strategists: Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini and Hitler – How War Made Them, and How They Made War
By Phillips Payson O’Brien
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