E.S. Turner

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  • Rural Reflections: A Brief History of Traps, Trapmakers and Gamekeeping in Britain by Stuart Haddon-Riddoch

• In Finest Fig: The Ocean Greyhounds · 20 October 2005

  • The Liner: Retrospective and Renaissance by Philip Dawson, foreword by Stephen Payne

• Paddling in the Gravy: Bath’s panderer-in-chief · 21 July 2005

  • The Imaginary Autocrat: Beau Nash and the Invention of Bath by John Eglin

• The Thought of Ruislip: the Metropolitan Line · 2 December 2004

  • Metro-Land: British Empire Exhibition Number by Oliver Green

• A Broad Grin and a Handstand: ‘the fastest woman in the world’ and the wild early years of motor-racing · 24 June 2004

  • The Bugatti Queen: In Search of a Motor-Racing Legend by Miranda Seymour

• Petting Cafés!: wartime spivs and dodgers · 4 December 2003

  • An Underworld at War: Spivs, Deserters, Racketeers and Civilians in the Second World War by Donald Thomas

• Madame, vous fatiguez les singes: The Tower Menagerie · 24 July 2003

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• Our chaps will deal with them: The Great Flap of 1940 · 8 August 2002

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• Delightful to be Robbed: stand and deliver · 9 May 2002

  • Outlaws and Highwaymen: The Cult of the Robber in England from the Middle Ages to the 19th century by Gillian Spraggs

• Gas-Bags: The Graf Zeppelin · 15 November 2001

  • Dr Eckener’s Dream Machine: The Historic Saga of the Round-the-World Zeppelin by Douglas Botting

• White Peril: H. Rider Haggard · 20 September 2001

  • Diary of an African Journey (1914) by H. Rider Haggard

• Hallelujah Lasses: The Salvation Army · 24 May 2001

  • Pulling the Devil’s Kingdom down: The Salvation Army in Victorian Britain by Pamela Walker

• Morality in the Oxygen: tobogganing · 14 December 2000

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  • Killing Dragons: The Conquest of the Alps by Fergus Fleming

• Don’t lock up the wife: Georgina Weldon · 5 October 2000

  • A Monkey among Crocodiles: The Life, Loves and Lawsuits of Mrs Georgina Weldon by Brian Thompson

• Blowing Cigarette Smoke at Greenfly: The Beastliness of Saki · 24 August 2000

  • The Unrest-Cure and Other Beastly Tales by Saki

• Is the lady your sister?: an innkeeper’s diary · 27 April 2000

  • An Innkeeper's Diary by John Fothergill

• Uplifting Lust: Mills and Boon · 6 January 2000

  • Passion’s Fortune: The Story of Mills and Boon by Joseph McAleer
  • The Romantic Fiction of Mills and Boon 1909-1995 by Jay Dixon

• The Crystal Palace Experience: The Great Exhibition of 1851 · 25 November 1999

  • The Great Exhibition of 1851: A Nation on Display by Jeffrey Auerbach

• Etheric Vibrations: Marie Corelli · 29 July 1999

  • The Mysterious Marie Corelli: Queen of Victorian Bestsellers by Teresa Ransom

• Gilded Drainpipes: London · 10 June 1999

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  • The Rise of the Nouveaux Riches: Style and Status in Victorian and Edwardian Architecture by Mordaunt Crook

• Walking on Eyeballs: the history of gout · 7 January 1999

  • Gout: The Patrician Malady by Roy Porter and G.S. Rousseau

• Suck, chéri: the history of sweets · 29 October 1998

  • Sugar-Plums and Sherbet: A Prehistory of Sweets by Laura Mason

• The water-doctors vanish: the social history of British spas · 4 June 1998

  • British Spas from 1815 to the Present Day: A Social History by Phyllis Hembry and Leonard Cowie

• Hogged · 22 January 1998

  • Shipwrecks of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Eras by Terence Grocott

• The Sacred Sofa · 11 December 1997

  • The House of Lords: From Saxon Wargods to a Modern Senate by John Wells

• Subsistence Journalism · 13 November 1997

  • ‘Punch’: The Lively Youth of a British Institution, 1841-51 by Richard Altick

• A Very Good Job for a Swede · 4 September 1997

  • The Fu Manchu Omnibus: Vol. II by Sax Rohmer

• Mummy says I can’t play at your house anymore · 5 June 1997

  • Biting the Dust: The Joys of Housework by Margaret Horsfield

• The Female Accelerator · 24 April 1997

  • The Bicycle by Pryor Dodge

• Flashes of 15 Denier · 20 March 1997

  • Forties Fashion and the New Look by Colin McDowell

• Wounding Nonsenses · 6 February 1997

  • The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh edited by Charlotte Mosley

• Monstrous Millinery · 12 December 1996

  • British Military Spectacle: From the Napoleonic Wars through the Crimea by Scott Hughes Myerly

• Unmuscular Legs · 22 August 1996

  • The Dictionary of National Biography 1986-1990 edited by C.S. Nicholls

• Stormy Weather · 18 July 1996

  • Passchendaele: The Untold Story by Robin Prior and Trevor Wilson

• The Staidness of Trousers · 6 June 1996

  • A Peculiar Man: A Life of George Moore by Tony Gray

• Masculine, Assertive, Athletic and Elegant · 30 November 1995

  • Noël Coward: A Biography by Philip Hoare

• The Torturer’s Apprentice · 5 October 1995

  • The Railway Man by Eric Lomax

• Mighty Merry · 25 May 1995

  • The Diary of Samuel Pepys. Eleven Volumes, including Companion and Index edited by R.C. Latham and W. Matthews

• Gap-osis · 6 April 1995

  • Zipper: An Exploration in Novelty by Robert Friedel

• Glooms · 23 February 1995

  • Edward Lear: A Biography by Peter Levi

• Do Not Fool Around · 24 November 1994

  • A Passion for Wings: Aviation and the Western Imagination, 1908-1918 by Robert Wohl

• Wrong Trowsers · 21 July 1994

  • A History of Men’s Fashion by Farid Chenoune, translated by Deke Dusinberre
  • The Englishman’s Suit by Hardy Amies

• Shopping in Lucerne · 9 June 1994

  • Addicted to Romance: The Life and Adventures of Elinor Glyn by Joan Hardwick
  • Mother of Oscar: The Life of Jane Francesca Wilde by Joy Melville

• Fit only to be a greengrocer · 23 September 1993

  • Rider Haggard and the Lost Empire by Tom Pocock

• Snubs · 19 August 1993

  • The Descent of Manners: Etiquette, Rules and the Victorians by Andrew St George

• Above the kissing line · 28 January 1993

  • My Ascent of Mont Blanc by Henriette d’Angeville, translated by Jennifer Barnes
  • Backwards to Britain by Jules Verne, translated by Janice Valls-Russell

• E.S. Turner shocks the sensitive · 20 August 1992

  • Quartered Safe Out Here: A Recollection of the War in Burma by George MacDonald Fraser
  • Tyrants and Mountains: A Reckless Life by Denis Hills

• Phew! · 11 June 1992

  • Sunny Intervals and Showers: Our Changing Weather by David Benedictus

• Sorcerer’s Apprentice · 19 December 1991

  • Alistair MacLean by Jack Webster
  • Alistair MacLean’s Time of the Assassins by Alastair MacNeill

• Not bothered · 29 August 1991

  • The Bachelor Duke: William Spencer Cavendish, Sixth Duke of Devonshire, 1790-1858 by James Lees-Milne

• Uncle William · 13 June 1991

  • The Passing of Barchester: A Real-Life Version of Trollop by Clive Dewey

• ‘Turbot, sir,’ said the waiter · 4 April 1991

  • After Hours with P.G. Wodehouse by Richard Usborne

• Heroic Irrigations · 6 December 1990

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  • The Medical History of Waters and Spas edited by Roy Porter

• On my way to the Couch · 30 March 1989

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• Zero Hour · 29 September 1988

  • The Berlin Blockade by Ann Tusa and John Tusa

• Memoriousness · 15 September 1988

  • Memories of Times Past by Louis Heren
  • Chances: An Autobiography by Mervyn Jones

• Do what you wish, du Maurier · 31 March 1988

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  • Maxwell: The Outsider by Tom Bower
  • Maxwell: A Portrait of Power by Peter Thompson and Anthony Delano
  • Goodbye Fleet Street by Robert Edwards

• High Spirits · 17 March 1988

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  • The Diaries of Lord Louis Mountbatten 1920-1922: Tours with the Prince of Wales edited by Philip Ziegler
  • Touch the Happy Isles: A Journey through the Caribbean by Quentin Crewe

• Disgrace Abounding · 7 January 1988

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  • Working for Victory? Images of Women in the First World War by Diana Condell and Jean Liddiard
  • The Countryside at War 1914-18 by Caroline Dakers
  • When Jim Crow met John Bull: Black American Soldiers in World War Two Britain by Graham Smith

• Hairy · 1 October 1987

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  • Passchendaele: The Story behind the Tragic Victory of 1917 by Philip Warner
  • Poor Bloody Infantry: A Subaltern on the Western Front 1916-17 by Bernard Martin

• Trevelogue · 25 June 1987

  • The Golden Oriole: Childhood, Family and Friends in India by Raleigh Trevelyan

• Blacks and Blues · 4 June 1987

  • The Life of My Choice by Wilfred Thesiger
  • Worlds Apart: Travels in War and Peace by Gavin Young

• Keeping the peace · 2 April 1987

  • March to the South Atlantic: 42 Commando Royal Marines in the Falklands War by Nick Vaux and Max Hastings
  • Further Particulars: Consequences of an Edwardian Boyhood by C.H. Rolph

• Women of Quality · 9 October 1986

  • The Pebbled Shore by Elizabeth Longford
  • Leaves of the Tulip Tree by Juliette Huxley
  • Enid Bagnold by Anne Sebba

• Gloriosus · 4 September 1986

  • Monty: The Field-Marshal 1944-1976 by Nigel Hamilton

• Diners-out · 3 July 1986

  • Augustus Hare: Victorian Gentleman by Malcolm Barnes
  • Midway on the Waves by James Lees-Milne

• Superior Persons · 6 February 1986

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  • The Ladies of Castlebrae by A. Whigham Price
  • Lizzie: A Victorian Lady’s Amazon Adventure by Tony Morrison, Anne Brown and Ann Rose
  • Miss Fane in India edited by John Pemble
  • Explorers Extraordinary by John Keay
  • A Visit to Germany, Italy and Malta 1840-41 by Hans Christian Andersen, translated by Grace Thornton
  • The Irish Sketch-Book 1842 by William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Mr Rowlandson’s England by Robert Southey, edited by John Steel

• Soldier, Sailor, Poacher · 3 October 1985

  • Great Britons: 20th-Century Lives by Harold Oxbury
  • The Oxford Book of Military Anecdotes edited by Max Hastings
  • The Long Affray: The Poaching Wars in Britain by Harry Hopkins

• A Potent Joy · 4 July 1985

  • Hitler’s Rockets: The Story of the V-2s by Norman Longmate

• Educating Georgie · 6 December 1984

  • Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor by Anne Edwards

• Netherstocking · 1 December 1983

  • Just William, More William, William Again, William the Fourth by Richmal Crompton and Thomas Henry

• Earls’ Sons · 20 October 1983

  • The Man who was Greenmantle: A Biography of Aubrey Herbert by Margaret FitzHerbert
  • A Classic Connection by Michael Seth-Smith

• Funny Mummy · 2 December 1982

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  • Jerome K. Jerome: A Critical Biography by Joseph Connolly
  • Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome, annotated and introduced by Benny Green
  • The Lost Stories of W.S. Gilbert edited by Peter Haining

• Snooping · 1 October 1981

  • Nella Last’s War: A Mother’s Diary, 1939-45 edited by Richard Broad and Suzie Fleming

• Manners maketh books · 20 August 1981

  • Debrett’s Etiquette and Modern Manners edited by Elsie Burch Donald

• Steps · 16 July 1981

  • An Ensign in the Peninsular War: The Letters of John Aitchison edited by W.F.K Thompson

• Great Thoughts · 7 May 1981

  • The Macmillan Treasury of Relevant Quotations edited by Edward Murphy

• Greens · 3 July 1980

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  • Cooking with Vegetables by Marika Hanbury Tenison
  • The Home Gardener’s Cookbook by Clare Walker
  • Natural Baby Food by Anna Haycraft

• Dear Sir · 15 May 1980

  • The Henry Root Letters

• Short Legs · 24 January 1980

  • Eminent Edwardians by Piers Brendon

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