For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
Social history & History & 19th Century

September 2018 Issue

Jane Ridley

Going Jungly

The British in India: Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience

By David Gilmour

February 2008 Issue

Lucy Lethbridge

Class Myths

Master and Servant: Love and Labour in the English Industrial Age

By Carolyn Steedman

December 2004 Issue

Jonathan Mirsky

A Subversive Infusion

Secret Histories: Finding George Orwell in a Burmese Teashop

By Emma Larkin

August 2006 Issue

Catherine Peters

The Lust for Acquisition

Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain

By Judith Flanders

Waxing Mythical: The Life and Legend of Madame Tussaud

By Kate Berridge

June 2008 Issue

Stephen Halliday

Eastenders

The Blackest Streets: The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum

By Sarah Wise

March 2008 Issue

Donald Rayfield

Other Stories

Children’s World: Growing up in Russia, 1890–1991

By Catriona Kelly

November 2007 Issue

Caroline Moorehead

Brutal Truths

Rape: A History from 1860 to the Present Day

By Joanna Bourke

November 2007 Issue

Saul David

Out of the Turmoil

Diamonds, Gold and War: The Making of South Africa

By Martin Meredith

July 2012 Issue

Max Egremont

Alnwick Calling

As They Really Were: The Citizens of Alnwick 1831

By Keith Middlemas

October 2012 Issue

Simon Heffer

In Fagin’s Footsteps

The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens’ London

By Judith Flanders