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Book Reviews by subject:
History of Ideas & History

February 2024 Issue

Richard V Reeves

Why Some Are More Equal Than Others

Equality: The History of an Elusive Idea

By Darrin M McMahon

Alexandra Gajda

Method in the Melancholy

The Elizabethan Mind: Searching for the Self in an Age of Uncertainty

By Helen Hackett

September 2020 Issue

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

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

December 2018 Issue

Darrin M McMahon

The Joys of Enlightenment

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

By David Wootton

October 2016 Issue

Ian McBride

Dublin’s New Dawn

The Irish Enlightenment

By Michael Brown

June 1990 Issue

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

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