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Rohan McWilliam

Two new books further extend the currently fashionable genre of 'neo-Victorian novel'.

Published February 24 2012

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

Rohan McWilliam reviews Jacqueline Yallop's study of the way the obsession of collecting things shaped 19th-century Britain.

Published November 15 2011

How true is Deborah Lutz's claim that the Swinging Sixties really began in the 1860s?

Published August 11 2011

Rohan McWilliam reviews David Brown's biography of Palmerston.

Published January 4 2011

Rohan McWilliam reviews John Campbell's latest book on British political history.

Published June 11 2010

Rohan McWilliam on a book about British policing by Clive Emsley.

Published June 11 2010
In the second of our occasional series exploring the ways in which topical historical subjects are being tackled in a variety of media, Rohan McWilliam examines a time in Britain’s history that seems to repay frequent revisiting more than a century after it ended.
Published June 10 2009

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