May 2022 Issue H Kumarasingham Illiteracy is No Disqualification In the Shadow of the Gods: The Emperor in World History By Dominic Lieven LR
March 2022 Issue John Adamson Holy Roman Administrator Maria Theresa: The Habsburg Empress in Her Time By Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger (Translated from German by Robert Savage)
May 2019 Issue Anthony Pagden Not Quite Master of All He Surveyed Emperor: A New Life of Charles V By Geoffrey Parker LR
June 2017 Issue Jonathan Steinberg Power and Prejudice The Many Deaths of Jew Süss: The Notorious Trial and Execution of an Eighteenth-Century Court Jew By Yair Mintzker
December 2016 Issue Thomas Shippey No Arthur Charlemagne By Johannes Fried (Translated by Peter Lewis) LR
February 2016 Issue John Adamson Divided We Stand The Holy Roman Empire: A Thousand Years of Europe’s History By Peter H Wilson LR
August 2006 Issue Allan Massie Regarding Rudolf The Theatre of the World: Alchemy, Astrology and Magic in Renaissance Prague By Peter Marshall LR
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Nick Harkaway, John le Carré's son, has gone back to the 1960s with a new novel featuring his father's anti-hero, George Smiley.
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