July 2023 Issue
Howard Davies
Don’t Panic, It’s Only a Recession
Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization
By Harold James
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Allan Massie
Anni Mirabiles
Pax: War and Peace in Rome’s Golden Age
By Tom Holland
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July 2023 Issue
Robert Gerwarth
Auf Wiedersehen, Napoleon
Bismarck’s War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe
By Rachel Chrastil
June 2023 Issue
David Abulafia
View from the Camel’s Back
Facing the Sea of Sand: The Sahara and the Peoples of Northern Africa
By Barry Cunliffe
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June 2023 Issue
Piers Brendon
Taipans, Pirates and Courtesans
Fortune’s Bazaar: The Making of Hong Kong
By Vaudine England
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June 2023 Issue
Alan Ryan
Sparks of Revolution
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness: Britain and the American Dream (1740–1776)
By Peter Moore
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June 2023 Issue
Munro Price
Vichy’s Long Shadow
France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain
By Julian Jackson
June 2023 Issue
Ben Gummer
A Prick in Time
Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations
By Simon Schama
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May 2023 Issue
Tim Blanning
Emperors, Mystics & Tomcats
The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe
By Martyn Rady
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May 2023 Issue
Lucy Wooding
Northern Lights
The Other Renaissance: From Copernicus to Shakespeare
By Paul Strathern
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May 2023 Issue
Elizabeth Goldring
Pop Goes the Cockerel
Tudor Children
By Nicholas Orme
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April 2023 Issue
Emma Park
Acropolis Now
What the Greeks Did for Us
By Tony Spawforth
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April 2023 Issue
Malachi O’Doherty
Et in Ulster Ego
The Strangers’ House: Writing Northern Ireland
By Alexander Poots
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April 2023 Issue
Mike Rapport
Once More unto the Barricades
Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World, 1848–1849
By Christopher Clark
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April 2023 Issue
John Kampfner
Honecker’s Hidden Pleasures
Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949–1990
By Katja Hoyer
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April 2023 Issue
Richard Vinen
One Day in October
Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown
By Rory Carroll
March 2023 Issue
Richard Vinen
Best of Adversaries
Churchill, Chamberlain and Appeasement
By G C Peden
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March 2023 Issue
Richard Davenport-Hines
The Princess, the Mystic & the Masseur
The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II
By Ian Buruma
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March 2023 Issue
Owen Matthews
Return to Krakowiec
A Small Town in Ukraine: The Place We Came From, The Place We Went Back To
By Bernard Wasserstein
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March 2023 Issue
Piers Brendon
I Believe in Yesterday
Homelands: A Personal History of Europe
By Timothy Garton Ash
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