August 2022 Issue David Abulafia Apostate in the Archive A History of Water, Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History By Edward Wilson-Lee LR
October 2020 Issue David Gelber Economist & Autocrat Salazar: The Dictator Who Refused to Die By Tom Gallagher
December 2019 Issue David Gelber Lucky Bastards The Braganzas: The Rise and Fall of the Ruling Dynasties of Portugal and Brazil, 1640–1910 By Malyn Newitt LR
July 1995 Issue Giles MacDonogh He Hated Jesuits And He Hated The English Pombal: Paradox Of The Enlightenment By Kenneth Maxwell LR
September 2015 Issue David Gelber When Lisbon Ruled the Waves Conquerors: How Portugal Seized the Indian Ocean and Forged the First Global Empire By Roger Crowley LR
December 2004 Issue C A R Hills The Whole World for Their Grave A History of Portuguese Overseas Expansion 1400-1668 By Malyn Newitt LR
September 2008 Issue Jonathan Keates Seismic Shift Wrath of God: The Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 By Edward Paice LR
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