Books of the Year 2019
Covering Hong Kong, the anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre, porcine inebriation and the Battle of Algiers, nine historians select their favourite books of the past year.
Reviews
Stauffenberg: Portrait of a Plotter
The views and actions of the man who tried to kill Hitler.
Unravelling the History of Wool
The lore and history of knitting in the British Isles.
Lewis Namier's Unfinished Business
The life of one of the leading British historians of the mid-20th century.
‘Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune’ by Rory Muir review
How, in Jane Austen’s England, sons without a fortune tried to find one.
The Unravelling of Sino-Japanese Relations
The story of China and Japan, and the periodic efforts to find a modus vivendi.
The Cows Behind the Cowboy
The human cost and conflict behind ‘beef for everyone’.
Insurgency and Dissent on the Home Front
Documenting the men and women who took a stand against the imperial tide.
Catholicism and its Critics
There is nothing exclusively modern about the dream of a world transformed by Reformation, Enlightenment, or revolution.
The Golden Ages
Successful cities, by the very nature of mercantile and intellectual exchange, must be multicultural and tolerant of diversity.