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Frank Trentmann on the changing history of thrift across the globe
Peter Atkins is left wanting more from a retrospective of dieting trends
Pauline Croft reads a survey of London life as experienced by the 17th-century’s best-known diarist
Hallie Rubenhold reviews a thoughtful analysis of the period when sex became a private matter
Rob Attar enjoys a lively compendium of some of mankind's greatest discoveries
Jonathan Wright savours a breezy rundown of some of the most influential bishops of Rome
Robert Black is disappointed by the arguments advanced in a new analysis of the origins of the Renaissance
Justin Champion follows the ideological battles of the Enlightenment
Peter Draper considers a biography of the popular historian and writer who devoted himself to English architecture