December 2020 Issue H Kumarasingham The Price of Freedom The Interest: How the British Establishment Resisted the Abolition of Slavery By Michael Taylor LR
June 2020 Issue Judith Flanders When Cash Became Kin Bread Winner: An Intimate History of the Victorian Economy By Emma Griffin LR
November 1989 Issue George Stern First Lessons in Crowd Control The Peterloo Massacre By Robert Reid LR
November 1989 Issue George Stern First Lessons in Crowd Control The Peterloo Massacre By Robert Reid LR
December 2018 Issue Saul David Some Corner of an English Field Peterloo: The Story of the Manchester Massacre By Jacqueline Riding LR
February 2008 Issue Lucy Lethbridge Class Myths Master and Servant: Love and Labour in the English Industrial Age By Carolyn Steedman LR
February 2008 Issue Emily Cockayne Gems, Guano and Sludge The Great Filth: The War against Disease in Victorian England By Stephen Halliday LR
November 2017 Issue Sarah Bradford Family Planning Queen Victoria’s Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages that Shaped Europe By Deborah Cadbury LR
October 2017 Issue John Bew Empire & State Building Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800–1906 By David Cannadine LR
September 2017 Issue Jonathan Meades Rogues’ Gallery The Age of Decadence: Britain 1880 to 1914 By Simon Heffer LR
April 2017 Issue Jonathan Keates Talley Ho Talleyrand in London: The Master Diplomat’s Last Mission By Linda Kelly LR
September 2016 Issue William Whyte The Battle of Big Ben Mr Barry’s War: Rebuilding the Houses of Parliament After the Great Fire of 1834 By Caroline Shenton LR
May 2016 Issue Leslie Mitchell Great Expectations Heyday: Britain and the Birth of the Modern World By Ben Wilson LR
December 2015 Issue Leslie Mitchell Persian Persuasion The Love of Strangers: What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen’s London By Nile Green LR
May 2004 Issue Nigel Jones At the Going Down of the Sun A New England? Peace and War 1886-1918 By G R Searle LR
December 2004 Issue Ophelia Field Their Progress Out of Boredom Wives and Daughters: Women and Children in the Georgian Country House By Joanna Martin LR
December 2004 Issue Andrew Roberts How to Win Votes and Influence People The Whig Revival 1808-1830 By William Hey LR
September 2010 Issue Matthew Bell Turf Wars Gentlemen and Blackguards: Gambling Mania and the Plot to Steal the Derby of 1844 – The Gambling Craze of the 1840s By Nick Foulkes LR
June 2008 Issue Stephen Halliday Eastenders The Blackest Streets: The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum By Sarah Wise LR
March 2008 Issue Paul Johnson Ideas in Action The Roads to Modernity: The British, French and American Enlightenments By Gertrude Himmelfarb LR
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