May 2020 Issue Thomas W Laqueur The Sense of Shame The Politics of Humiliation: A Modern History By Ute Frevert (Translated from German by Adam Bresnahan)
April 2020 Issue Louise Foxcroft Cruel Intentions Strange Antics: A History of Seduction By Clement Knox LR
September 2016 Issue Ted Vallance Thug Nation A Fiery & Furious People: A History of Violence in England By James Sharpe LR
May 2004 Issue Michael Bywater Stiff Competition O: The Intimate History of the Orgasm By Jonathan Margolis LR
March 2008 Issue Paul Addison Are We Declining? From Anger to Apathy: The British Experience since 1975 By Mark Garnett LR
April 2012 Issue Harry Mount Keeping Out the Joneses Cheek by Jowl: A History of Neighbours By Emily Cockayne LR
April 2014 Issue Eric Kaufmann What’s in a Name? The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility By Gregory Clark LR
May 2013 Issue Paul Addison People Watching The Mass Observers: A History, 1937–1949 By James Hinton LR
June 2013 Issue Andrew Brown Ignoble Savages Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us About Sex, Diet, and How We Live By Marlene Zuk The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates By Frans de Waal LR
February 2014 Issue David Nirenberg Hell is Other Peoples Racisms: From the Crusades to the Twentieth Century By Francisco Bethencourt LR
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