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Rohan McWilliam reviews Matthew Sweet's 'different history of the Home Front': the Ritzkrieg and the opulent lifestyles that the rich enjoyed in London during the Second World War. Published December 20 2011
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If people are what they eat, Winston Churchill was plain cooking, whisky, champagne and the best Havana cigar smoke; and all that these might be taken to imply. Published December 19 2011
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Richard Weight reviews Peter Catterall's edited volume of Macmillan's diaries. Published November 22 2011
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Mary Laven reviews Helen Berry's account of the clandestine union between Dorothea Maunsell and the castrato Giusto Ferdinando Tenducci. Published November 16 2011
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Rohan McWilliam reviews Jacqueline Yallop's study of the way the obsession of collecting things shaped 19th-century Britain. Published November 15 2011
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David Waller reviews Claire Tomalin's new biography of Charles Dickens. Published November 15 2011
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Roland Quinault reviews Peter Marsh's account of the Chamberlain family. Published October 26 2011
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The Great War and the Making of the Modern World and With Our Backs To The Wall : two books on the First World War which 'will be tough acts to follow'. Published October 21 2011
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Jeremy Black reviews Charles H. Parker's account of trade, migration, disease and religion in the early modern age. Published October 21 2011
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Edith Hall reviews David Mattingly's study of Roman imperialism. Published October 13 2011
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Bernard Porter reviews Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon's account of the violence that accompanied Britain's decolonisation after the Second World War. Published October 12 2011
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Hannah Greig reviews the first book-length study of London's Vauxhall Gardens for over 55 years. Published September 21 2011
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David Waller reviews Fiona MacCarthy's biography of Edward Burne-Jones. Published September 20 2011
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David Cesarani reviews Tom Segev’s biography of the man who was credited with bringing hundreds of Nazi war criminals to justice and Bob Moore's study of Jewish rescue organisations in Nazi-occupied Europe. Published September 19 2011
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Jonathan Keates reviews Paul Stathern's account of a particularly bizarre moment in Renaissance history. Published September 19 2011
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