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Timothy W Ryback
Bonfires of Reason
Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge Under Attack
By Richard Ovenden
February 2020 Issue
Richard Vinen
History Boys
Conservative Revolutionary: The Lives of Lewis Namier
By D W Hayton
Sir John Plumb: The Hidden Life of a Great Historian
By Neil McKendrick
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August 2019 Issue
Tim Whitmarsh
In Defence of Reason
The History of Philosophy
By A C Grayling
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October 2000 Issue
A C Grayling
A Prodigious Feat
Terrible Beauty: A History of the People & Ideas That Shaped the Modern World
By Peter Watson
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June 2019 Issue
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
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December 2018 Issue
Darrin M McMahon
The Joys of Enlightenment
Power, Pleasure, and Profit: Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison
By David Wootton
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December 2017 Issue
Nicholas Roe
The Birth of Romance
A Revolution of Feeling: The Decade that Forged the Modern Mind
By Rachel Hewitt
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December 2017 Issue
Jonathan Rée
Experimental Thinking
Pain, Pleasure, and the Greater Good: From the Panopticon to the Skinner Box and Beyond
By Cathy Gere
November 2016 Issue
Tom Stern
Rooms with a View
Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School
By Stuart Jeffries
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November 2016 Issue
Richard Bourke
Rational Selections
The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy
By Anthony Gottlieb
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October 2016 Issue
Ian McBride
Dublin’s New Dawn
The Irish Enlightenment
By Michael Brown
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October 2016 Issue
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
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June 1990 Issue
Jad Adams
Time Out Of Mind
Empires of Time – Calendars, Clocks and Cultures
By Anthony Aveni
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May 1990 Issue
Richard Cavendish
The History Which Never Happened
Mythology of the British Isles
By Geoffrey Ashe
This New Age Business
By Peter Lemesurier
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June 2016 Issue
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
LR
May 2016 Issue
Robert Mayhew
Privateer, Polymath, Poet
A Stain in the Blood: The Remarkable Voyage of Sir Kenelm Digby
By Joe Moshenska
May 2016 Issue
John Gray
Romantic Rebel?
The Discovery of Chance: The Life and Thought of Alexander Herzen
By Aileen M Kelly
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April 2016 Issue
Alan Ryan
Rise of the Middling Sort
Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World
By Deirdre N McCloskey
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