September 2016 Issue Ted Vallance Thug Nation A Fiery & Furious People: A History of Violence in England By James Sharpe LR
July 1983 Issue G S Rousseau Outsiders/Insiders Outsiders: A Study in Life and Letters By Hans Mayer (translated by Denis M Sweet) LR
September 2015 Issue Robert Colls Crying Shame Weeping Britannia: Portrait of a Nation in Tears By Thomas Dixon LR
September 2008 Issue Amol Rajan Terms of Estrangement Balti Britain: A Journey Through the British Asian Experience By Ziauddin Sardar LR
March 2008 Issue Paul Addison Are We Declining? From Anger to Apathy: The British Experience since 1975 By Mark Garnett LR
April 2012 Issue Harry Mount Keeping Out the Joneses Cheek by Jowl: A History of Neighbours By Emily Cockayne LR
April 2014 Issue Eric Kaufmann What’s in a Name? The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility By Gregory Clark LR
May 2013 Issue Paul Addison People Watching The Mass Observers: A History, 1937–1949 By James Hinton LR
October 2013 Issue David Bodanis Networking Down the Ages Writing on the Wall: Social Media – The First 2,000 Years By Tom Standage LR
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