contents august 2017 • issue 456 Editor Nancy Sladek Deputy Editor Tom Fleming Assistant Editors Frank Brinkley • David Gelber Editorial Assistant Sophie Baggott Contributing Editors Jonathan Beckman Michael Burleigh • Sara Wheeler • Philip Womack Advertising Manager Terry Finnegan Classified Advertising David Sturge Marketing Manager Katherine Bogden Bayard Founding Editor Dr Anne Smith Cover Illustration Chris Riddell
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history 6 Dmitri Levitin
1517: Martin Luther & the Invention of the Reformation Peter Marshall 8 Piers Brendon
Lovers and Strangers: An Immigrant History of Post-War Britain Clair Wills 10 Donald Rayfield
The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution Yuri Slezkine 11 Saul David
African Kaiser: General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck & the Great War in Africa Robert Gaudi 13 Adrian Weale
The Traitors Josh Ireland 14 Tracy Borman
The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present Ronald Hutton celebrity 16 Darrin McMahon
The Invention of Celebrity, 1750–1850 Antoine Lilti empire 18 Felipe Fernández-Armesto
The Hungry Empire: How Britain’s Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World Lizzie Collingham 19 John Keay
The Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World Erika Rappaport literary lives 21 Peter Moore
Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa Joseph Farrell 23 Catherine Peters
Jane Welsh Carlyle and Her Victorian World Kathy Chamberlain 24 Justin Beplate
Joyce in Court Adrian Hardiman 26 Valerie Grove
Far to Go and Many to Love: People & Places Lesley Blanch art 27 Robin Simon
Gainsborough: A Portrait James Hamilton 28 Frances Spalding
Leonard Rosoman Tanya Harrod
