Tim Whitmarsh

In Defence of Reason

The History of Philosophy

By A C Grayling

A C Grayling

A Prodigious Feat

Terrible Beauty: A History of the People & Ideas That Shaped the Modern World

By Peter Watson

Frank Mclynn

What’s the Big Idea?

Out of Our Minds: What We Think and How We Came to Think It

By Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Darrin M McMahon

The Joys of Enlightenment

Power, Pleasure, and Profit: Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison

By David Wootton

Nicholas Roe

The Birth of Romance

A Revolution of Feeling: The Decade that Forged the Modern Mind

By Rachel Hewitt

Jonathan Rée

Experimental Thinking

Pain, Pleasure, and the Greater Good: From the Panopticon to the Skinner Box and Beyond

By Cathy Gere

Tom Stern

Rooms with a View

Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School

By Stuart Jeffries

Richard Bourke

Rational Selections

The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy

By Anthony Gottlieb

Ian McBride

Dublin’s New Dawn

The Irish Enlightenment

By Michael Brown

Charles Elliott

The Eleventh’s Hour

Everything Explained that Is Explainable: On the Creation of the Encyclopaedia Britannica’s Celebrated Eleventh Edition, 1910–1911

By Denis Boyles

Jad Adams

Time Out Of Mind

Empires of Time – Calendars, Clocks and Cultures

By Anthony Aveni

Richard Cavendish

The History Which Never Happened

Mythology of the British Isles

By Geoffrey Ashe

This New Age Business

By Peter Lemesurier

Donald Rayfield

Philosophers & Murderers

Black Wind, White Snow: The Rise of Russia’s New Nationalism

By Charles Clover

A Very Expensive Poison: The Definitive Story of the Murder of Litvinenko and Russia’s War with the West

By Luke Harding

John Gray

Romantic Rebel?

The Discovery of Chance: The Life and Thought of Alexander Herzen

By Aileen M Kelly

Alan Ryan

Rise of the Middling Sort

Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World

By Deirdre N McCloskey