The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter by Deborah R. Coen Luciana Astiz on how seismology evolved from the combined observations of scientists and citizens 4 April
British Writers and MI5 Surveillance, 1930-1960 by James Smith Matthew Feldman on the connections between literary history and intelligence studies 4 April
Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic by Michael Axworthy Ervand Abrahamian ponders how Muslim clerics seized and retained control of modern-day Persia 4 April
American Lynching by Ashraf H. A. Rushdy Céleste Marie-Bernier admires an original approach to a shameful period in US history 28 March
Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World by Shereen El Feki Shahidha Bari considers an exploration of desire and denial amid Egypt’s shifting sands 28 March
The Scientific Sherlock Holmes: Cracking the Case with Science and Forensics by James O’Brien Stephen Wade on the accurate contemporary science behind the Holmesian investigations 21 March
Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith: New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina by Vincanne Adams Kevin Fox Gotham on the negative consequences of privatised disaster services and aid work 21 March
Characters Of Blood: Black Heroism In The Transatlantic Imagination by Céleste-Marie Bernier Catherine Clinton on a creative and contextual analysis of the visual art of enslaved blacks 21 March
The Undivided Past: History Beyond Our Differences by David Cannadine Jill Stephenson on a skilful critique of the scholarly preoccupation with difference 14 March
Stalin’s Curse: Battling for Communism in War and Cold War, by Robert Gellately Vladimir Tismaneanu discusses the revolutionary ambitions of the USSR’s great tyrant 7 March
The Pike: Gabriele d’Annunzio: Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War by Lucy Hughes-Hallett Richard Bosworth on a ‘celebrity’ role model for Mussolini’s Fascism 28 February
Antarctica: A Biography by David Day Chris Turney reviews a history of attempts by Antarctic explorers to conquer the southern continent 21 February
An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo by Richard Davenport-Hines Stephen Halliday finds no heroes, only villains and victims, in a sordid tale 21 February
Vinyl: A History of the Analogue Record by Richard Osborne The medium and the music it made possible inspire a groovy kind of love in Les Gofton 21 February
Bang! A History of Britain in the 1980s by Graham Stewart Maud Anne Bracke considers an analysis of a revolutionary decade fails to offer a new perspective 21 February
Hitler’s Philosophers, by Yvonne Sherratt An effort to blame German thinkers for Nazism revives a discredited tradition, says Richard J. Evans 21 February
We Modern People by Anindita Banerjee Yvonne Howell on modernity and early Russian science fiction 14 February
On Glasgow and Edinburgh by Robert Crawford Willy Maley identifies an old-fashioned charm in the telling of a tale of two rival, divided cities 14 February
Eating the Enlightenment by E.C Spary The evolution of dietary habits during the Enlightenment leaves Biancamaria Fontana hungry for more 7 February
Henri Poincaré: A Scientific Biography by Jeremy Gray Madeline Muntersbjorn reviews a guide to the oeuvres of a mathematical genius 7 February
Engineers of Victory by Paul Kennedy Graham Farmelo applauds a tribute to the technological experts who helped the Allies win the Second World War 7 February
Olivia Manning: A Woman At War by Deirdre David There is much to admire in this biography of the Fortunes of War author, finds Sandeep Parmar 7 February
Under the Volcano: Revolution in a Sicilian Town by Lucy Riall Richard Bosworth on the Risorgimento’s local legacy 31 January
Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe by Katy Price Vike Martina Plock on literary echoes of relativity’s shockwaves 31 January
The Visioneers by W. Patrick McCray Jon Turney on future-facing researchers Gerard O’Neill and Eric Drexler 31 January
Family Secrets: Living with Shame from the Victorians to the Present Day by Deborah Cohen June Purvis on an absorbing study of social change 31 January
Re-imagining the 'Dark Continent' in Fin de Siecle Literature Joanna Lewis hails a challenging ‘must-read’ for historians of late-Victorian imperialism 17 January
Soldiers, Spies, and Statesmen: Egypt's Road to Revolt Democracy suffers when the Islamists, the military and the secret police collude, writes Mariz Tadros 17 January
Territory of dreadful delight Joanna Lewis hails a challenging ‘must-read’ for historians of late-Victorian imperialism 17 January
Trent: What Happened at the Council by John W. O’Malley Alec Ryrie salutes a committed and critical look at a key event in the history of Catholicism By Alec Ryrie 17 January
The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die A.W. Purdue on the ramifications of the demise of Western civil society’s foundational structures 20 December
Seduced by Logic: Émilie Du Châtelet, Mary Somerville and the Newtonian Revolution Biancamaria Fontana admires the courage of two women who dared to enter scientific circles 20 December
Was Hitler Ill? A Final Diagnosis No excuses, says Yvonne Sherratt: the Fuhrer’s enormities cannot be blamed on insanity 13 December
Spitting Blood: The History of Tuberculosis, by Helen Bynum Richard J. Evans admires exhaustive coverage of an ancient killer that threatens a major comeback 13 December
There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra Willy Maley on a writer of commitment’s memoir of a postcolonial nation’s descent into conflict 29 November
Patriotism and Propaganda in First World War Britain: The National War Aims Committee and Civilian Morale 15 November
Bible Readers and Lay Writers in Early Modern England: Gender and Self-Definition in an Emergent Writing Culture 15 November
Sasha and Emma: The Anarchist Odyssey of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman This tale of friends, lovers and fighters for political change has epic sweep, says Robin Feuer Miller 8 November
Tombstone: The Untold Story of Mao's Great Famine It’s not too early to tell who is to blame for the unnecessary death of millions, says Kerry Brown 1 November
Contagion: How Commerce Has Spread Disease Alison Bashford applauds a magisterial study of scarily relevant bioeconomic history 1 November
The Invention of Heterosexual Culture The man-woman pairing displaced other well-established forms of bonding, finds Robert Mills 1 November
