August 2021 Issue Mary Kenny Blood in the Park The Irish Assassins: Conspiracy, Revenge, and the Murders That Stunned an Empire By Julie Kavanagh LR
February 2019 Issue Tim Blanning Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Elector Time and Power: Visions of History in German Politics, from the Thirty Years’ War to the Third Reich By Christopher Clark LR
April 2017 Issue Jonathan Keates Talley Ho Talleyrand in London: The Master Diplomat’s Last Mission By Linda Kelly LR
September 2016 Issue William Whyte The Battle of Big Ben Mr Barry’s War: Rebuilding the Houses of Parliament After the Great Fire of 1834 By Caroline Shenton LR
February 2009 Issue Raymond Seitz E Pluribus Unum America, Empire of Liberty: A New History By David Reynolds LR
February 2009 Issue Dominic Sandbrook American Idol Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln By Doris Kearns Goodwin LR
September 2007 Issue Leslie Mitchell Derby’s Days The Forgotten Prime Minister: The 14th Earl of Derby (Volume I: Ascent, 1799–1851) By Angus Hawkins LR
August 2007 Issue Allan Massie The July Monarchy The Perilous Crown: France Between Revolutions, 1814–1848 By Munro Price LR
December 2011 Issue Kwasi Kwarteng The Brute Facts Britain’s Empire: Resistance, Repression and Revolt By Richard Gott LR
December 2011 Issue Vernon Bogdanor Lion, Harp & Unicorn The Two Unions: Ireland, Scotland, and the Survival of the United Kingdom, 1707–2007 By Alvin Jackson LR
May 2012 Issue Leslie Mitchell Killer in the Commons Why Spencer Perceval Had to Die: The Assassination of a British Prime Minister By Andro Linklater LR
May 2013 Issue Boyd Hilton Liberty or Dearth Perilous Question: The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832 By Antonia Fraser LR
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