| # | Topic | Author(s) | UK print publication date | Original publication | Category |
|---|
| 001 | Classics | Mary Beard, John Henderson | 24 February 2000 | 1995 |
| 002 | Music | Nicholas Cook | 24 February 2000 25 February 2021 (2nd ed.) | 1998 |
| 003 | Buddhism | Damien Keown | 24 February 2000 28 February 2013 (2nd ed.) | 1996 | religion |
| 004 | Literary Theory | Jonathan Culler | 24 February 2000 28 July 2011 (2nd ed.) | 1997 |
| 005 | Hinduism | Kim Knott | 24 February 2000 1 May 2016 (2nd ed.) | 1998 | religion |
| 006 | Psychology | Gillian Butler, Freda McManus | 24 February 2000 23 January 2014 (2nd ed.) | 1998 |
| 007 | Islam | Malise Ruthven | 24 February 2000 26 January 2012 (2nd ed.) | 1997 | religion |
| 008 | Politics | Kenneth Minogue | 24 February 2000 | 1995 | politics |
| 009 | Theology | David F. Ford | 24 February 2000 24 October 2013 (2nd ed.) | 1999 | religion |
| 010 | Archaeology | Paul Bahn (illustrator: Bill Tidy) | 24 February 2000 30 August 2012 (2nd ed.) | 1996 |
| 011 | Judaism | Norman Solomon | 24 February 2000 28 August 2014 (2nd ed.) | 1996 | religion |
| 012 | Sociology | Steve Bruce | 24 February 2000 27 September 2018 (2nd ed.) | 1999 |
| 013 | The Koran | Michael Cook | 24 February 2000 | religion |
| 014 | The Bible | John Riches | 24 February 2000 | religion |
| 015 | Social and CulturalAnthropology | John Monaghan, Peter Just | 24 February 2000 |
| 016 | History | John Arnold | 24 February 2000 |
| 017 | Roman Britain | Peter Salway | 10 August 2000 1 August 2015 (2nd ed.) | Chapter from The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, 1984 |
| 018 | The Anglo-Saxon Age | John Blair | 10 August 2000 | Chapter from The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, 1984 |
| 019 | Medieval Britain | John Gillingham, Ralph A. Griffiths | 10 August 2000 | Chapters from The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, 1984 |
| 020 | The Tudors | John Guy | 10 August 2000 29 August 2013 (2nd ed.) | Chapter from The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, 1984 |
| 021 | Stuart Britain | John Morrill | 10 August 2000 | Chapter from The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, 1984 |
| 022 | Eighteenth-Century Britain | Paul Langford | 10 August 2000 | Chapter from The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, 1984 |
| 023 | Nineteenth-Century Britain | Christopher Harvie, H. C. G. Matthew | 10 August 2000 | Chapters from The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, 1984 |
| 024 | Twentieth-Century Britain | Kenneth O. Morgan | 10 August 2000 | Chapter from The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, 1984 |
| 025 | Heidegger | Michael Inwood | 12 October 2000 24 January 2019 (2nd ed.) | Past Masters series, 1997 | philosophy |
| 026 | Ancient Philosophy | Julia Annas | 12 October 2000 | philosophy |
| 027 | Socrates | C. C. W. Taylor | 12 October 2000 22 August 2019 (2nd ed.) | Past Masters series, 1998 | philosophy |
| 028 | Marx | Peter Singer | 12 October 2000 22 March 2018 (2nd ed.) | Past Masters series, 1980 |
| 029 | Logic | Graham Priest | 12 October 2000 26 October 2017 (2nd ed.) |
| 030 | Descartes | Tom Sorell | 12 October 2000 | Past Masters series, 1987 | philosophy |
| 031 | Machiavelli | Quentin Skinner | 12 October 2000 25 July 2019 (2nd ed.) | Past Masters series, 1981 | philosophy |
| 032 | Aristotle | Jonathan Barnes | 12 October 2000 | Past Masters series, 1982 | philosophy |
| 033 | Hume | A. J. Ayer | 12 October 2000 | Past Masters series, 1980 | philosophy |
| 034 | Nietzsche | Michael Tanner | 19 October 2000 | Past Masters series, 1987 | philosophy |
| 035 | Darwin | Jonathan Howard | 22 February 2001 | Past Masters series, 1982 |
| 036 | The European Union | John Pinder, Simon Usherwood | 22 February 2001 13 December 2007 (2nd ed.) 25 July 2013 (3rd ed.) 25 January 2018 (4th ed.) |
| 037 | Gandhi | Bhikhu Parekh | 22 February 2001 | Past Masters series, 1997 |
| 038 | Augustine | Henry Chadwick | 22 February 2001 | Past Masters series, 1986 | philosophy |
| 039 | Intelligence | Ian J. Deary | 22 February 2001 |
| 040 | Jung | Anthony Stevens | 22 February 2001 | Past Masters series, 1994 | psychology |
| 041 | Buddha | Michael Carrithers | 22 February 2001 | Past Masters series, 1983 | religion |
| 042 | Paul | E. P. Sanders | 22 February 2001 | Past Masters series, 1991 | religion |
| 043 | Continental Philosophy | Simon Critchley | 22 February 2001 | philosophy |
| 044 | Galileo | Stillman Drake | 22 February 2001 | Past Masters series, 1980 |
| 045 | Freud | Anthony Storr | 22 February 2001 | Past Masters series, 1989 | psychology |
| 046 | Wittgenstein | A. C. Grayling | 22 February 2001 | Past Masters series, 1988 | philosophy |
| 047 | Indian Philosophy | Sue Hamilton | 22 February 2001 | Non-VSI, 2000 | philosophy |
| 048 | Rousseau | Robert Wokler | 23 August 2001 | Past Masters series, 1995 | philosophy |
| 049 | Hegel | Peter Singer | 23 August 2001 | Past Masters series, 1983 | philosophy |
| 050 | Kant | Roger Scruton | 23 August 2001 | Past Masters series, 1982 | philosophy |
| 051 | Cosmology | Peter Coles | 23 August 2001 |
| 052 | Drugs | Leslie Iversen | 23 August 2001 23 June 2016 (2nd ed.) |
| 053 | Russian Literature | Catriona Kelly | 23 August 2001 |
| 054 | The French Revolution | William Doyle | 23 August 2001 28 November 2019 (2nd ed.) |
| 055 | Philosophy | Edward Craig | 21 February 2002 24 September 2020 (2nd ed.) | Non-VSI, 2002 | philosophy |
| 056 | Barthes | Jonathan Culler | 21 February 2002 | Modern Masters series, Fontana Press, 1983 | philosophy |
| 057 | Animal Rights | David DeGrazia | 21 February 2002 |
| 058 | Kierkegaard | Patrick Gardiner | 21 February 2002 | Past Masters series, 1988 | philosophy |
| 059 | Russell | A. C. Grayling | 21 February 2002 | Past Masters series, 1996 | philosophy |
| 060 | Shakespeare[n 1] | Germaine Greer | 21 February 2002 | Past Masters series, 1986 |
| William Shakespeare[n 1] | Stanley Wells | 23 April 2015 |
| 061 | Clausewitz | Michael Howard | 21 February 2002 | Past Masters series, 1983 |
| 062 | Schopenhauer | Christopher Janaway | 21 February 2002 | Past Masters series, 1994 | philosophy |
| 063 | The Russian Revolution | S. A. Smith | 21 February 2002 |
| 064 | Hobbes | Richard Tuck | 30 May 2002 | Past Masters series, 1989 | philosophy |
| 065 | World Music | Philip V. Bohlman | 30 May 2002 23 July 2020 (2nd ed.) |
| 066 | Mathematics | Timothy Gowers | 22 August 2002 | mathematics |
| 067 | Philosophy of Science | Samir Okasha | 30 May 2002 28 July 2016 (2nd ed.) |
| 068 | Cryptography | Fred Piper, Sean Murphy | 30 May 2002 | mathematics |
| 069 | Quantum Theory | John Polkinghorne | 30 May 2002 | physics |
| 070 | Spinoza | Roger Scruton | 30 May 2002 | Past Masters series, 1986 | philosophy |
| 071 | Choice Theory | Michael Allingham | 22 August 2002 |
| 072 | Architecture | Andrew Ballantyne | 22 August 2002 |
| 073 | Poststructuralism | Catherine Belsey | 22 August 2002 |
| 074 | Postmodernism | Christopher Butler | 10 October 2002 |
| 075 | Democracy | Bernard Crick | 10 October 2002 | politics |
| 076 | Empire | Stephen Howe | 22 August 2002 |
| 077 | Fascism | Kevin Passmore | 22 August 2002 29 May 2014 (2nd ed.) | politics |
| 078 | Terrorism | Charles Townshend | 10 October 2002 8 September 2011 (2nd ed.) 24 May 2018 (3rd ed.) |
| 079 | Plato | Julia Annas | 13 February 2003 | philosophy |
| 080 | Ethics | Simon Blackburn | 8 May 2003 28 January 2021 (2nd ed.) | Being Good: An Introduction to Ethics, 2001 rev. 2003 |
| 081 | Emotion | Dylan Evans | 13 February 2003 26 September 2019 (2nd ed.) | Emotion: The Science of Sentiment, 2001 |
| 082 | Northern Ireland | Marc Mulholland | 23 January 2003 | The Longest War: Northern Ireland's Troubled History, 2002 |
| 083 | Art Theory | Cynthia Freeland | 13 February 2003 | But Is It Art?: An Introduction to Art Theory, 2001 |
| 084 | Locke | John Dunn | 8 May 2003 | Past Masters series, 1984 | philosophy |
| 085 | Modern Ireland | Senia Paseta | 27 March 2003 |
| 086 | Globalization | Manfred Steger | 27 March 2003 22 January 2009 (2nd ed.) 4 April 2013 (3rd ed.) 27 April 2017 (4th ed.) 28 May 2020 (5th ed.) |
| 087 | The Cold War | Robert J. McMahon | 27 March 2003 25 February 2021 (2nd ed.) |
| 088 | The History of Astronomy | Michael Hoskin | 8 May 2003 |
| 089 | Schizophrenia | Chris Frith, Eve C. Johnstone | 22 May 2003 |
| 090 | The Earth | Martin Redfern | 26 June 2003 |
| 091 | Engels | Terrell Carver | 22 May 2003 | Past Masters series, 1981 | philosophy |
| 092 | British Politics | Tony Wright | 22 May 2003 30 May 2013 (2nd ed.) 25 June 2020 (3rd ed.) | politics |
| 093 | Linguistics | P. H. Matthews | 24 April 2003 |
| 094 | The Celts | Barry Cunliffe | 26 June 2003 |
| 095 | Ideology | Michael Freeden | 26 June 2003 |
| 096 | Prehistory | Chris Gosden | 26 June 2003 28 June 2018 (2nd ed.) |
| 097 | Political Philosophy | David Miller | 26 June 2003 |
| 098 | Postcolonialism | Robert J.C. Young | 26 June 2003 22 October 2020 (2nd ed.) |
| 099 | Atheism | Julian Baggini | 26 June 2003 | religion |
| 100 | Evolution | Brian Charlesworth, Deborah Charlesworth | 26 June 2003 6 July 2017 (2nd ed.) |
| 101 | Molecules | Philip Ball | 27 November 2003 | Stories of the Invisible: A Guided Tour of Molecules, 2001 | chemistry |
| 102 | Art History | Dana Arnold | 22 January 2004 |
| 103 | Presocratic Philosophy | Catherine Osborne | 22 April 2004 | philosophy |
| 104 | The Elements | Philip Ball | 8 April 2004 | The Ingredients: A Guided Tour of the Elements, 2002 | chemistry |
| 105 | Dada and Surrealism | David Hopkins | 8 April 2004 |
| 106 | Egyptian Myth | Geraldine Pinch | 22 April 2004 |
| 107 | Christian Art | Beth Williamson | 24 June 2004 |
| 108 | Capitalism | James Fulcher | 13 May 2004 1 August 2015 (2nd ed.) | politics |
| 109 | Particle Physics | Frank Close | 13 May 2004 | physics |
| 110 | Free Will | Thomas Pink | 24 June 2004 |
| 111 | Myth | Robert A. Segal | 8 July 2004 1 September 2015 (2nd ed.) |
| 112 | Ancient Egypt | Ian Shaw | 22 July 2004 28 January 2021 (2nd ed.) |
| 113 | Hieroglyphs | Penelope Wilson | 12 August 2004 | Sacred Signs: Hieroglyphs in Ancient Egypt, 2003 |
| 114 | Medical Ethics | Tony Hope | 23 September 2004 22 November 2018 (2nd ed.) |
| 115 | Kafka | Ritchie Robertson | 28 October 2004 |
| 116 | Anarchism | Colin Ward | 21 October 2004 |
| 117 | Ancient Warfare | Harry Sidebottom | 25 November 2004 |
| 118 | Global Warming | Mark Maslin | 25 November 2004 27 November 2008 (2nd ed.) 23 October 2014 (3rd ed.) 22 April 2021 (4th ed.) | In the 3rd edition the title has changed to Climate Change |
| 119 | Christianity | Linda Woodhead | 25 November 2004 4 September 2014 (2nd ed.) | religion |
| 120 | Modern Art | David Cottington | 24 February 2005 |
| 121 | Consciousness | Susan Blackmore | 24 March 2005 14 September 2017 (2nd ed.) |
| 122 | Foucault | Gary Gutting | 24 March 2005 26 September 2019 (2nd ed.) | philosophy |
| 123 | The Spanish Civil War | Helen Graham | 24 March 2005 |
| 124 | The Marquis de Sade | John Phillips | 28 July 2005 | philosophy |
| 125 | Habermas | Gordon Finlayson | 26 May 2005 | philosophy |
| 126 | Socialism | Michael Newman | 28 July 2005 24 September 2020 (2nd ed.) | politics |
| 127 | Dreaming | J. Allan Hobson | 21 April 2005 | Dreaming: An Introduction to the Science of Sleep, 2002 |
| 128 | Dinosaurs | David Norman | 28 July 2005 28 December 2017 (2nd ed.) |
| 129 | Renaissance Art | Geraldine A. Johnson | 21 April 2005 |
| 130 | Buddhist Ethics | Damien Keown | 23 June 2005 25 June 2020 (2nd ed.) | religion |
| 131 | Tragedy | Adrian Poole | 11 August 2005 |
| 132 | Sikhism | Eleanor Nesbitt | 22 September 2005 28 April 2016 (2nd ed.) | religion |
| 133 | The History of Time | Leofranc Holford-Strevens | 11 August 2005 |
| 134 | Nationalism | Steven Grosby | 8 September 2005 |
| 135 | The World Trade Organization | Amrita Narlikar | 8 September 2005 |
| 136 | Design | John Heskett | 23 June 2005 | Toothpicks and Logos: Design in Everyday Life, 2002 |
| 137 | The Vikings | Julian D. Richards | 8 September 2005 |
| 138 | Fossils | Keith Thomson | 13 October 2005 |
| 139 | Journalism | Ian Hargreaves | 15 September 2005 28 August 2014 (2nd ed.) | Journalism: Truth or Dare?, 2003 |
| 140 | The Crusades | Christopher Tyerman | 13 October 2005 | Fighting for Christendom: Holy War and the Crusades, 2004 | religion |
| 141 | Feminism | Margaret Walters | 27 October 2005 |
| 142 | Human Evolution | Bernard Wood | 3 November 2005 27 June 2019 (2nd ed.) |
| 143 | The Dead Sea Scrolls | Timothy Lim | 24 November 2005 23 March 2017 (2nd ed.) | religion |
| 144 | The Brain | Michael O'Shea | 8 December 2005 | biology |
| 145 | Global Catastrophes | Bill McGuire | 26 January 2006 28 August 2014 (2nd ed.) | A Guide to the End of the World: Everything You Never Wanted to Know, 2002 |
| 146 | Contemporary Art | Julian Stallabrass | 23 March 2006 10 December 2020 (2nd ed.) | Art Incorporated: The Story of Contemporary Art, 2004 |
| 147 | Philosophy of Law | Raymond Wacks | 18 May 2006 27 February 2014 (2nd ed.) |
| 148 | The Renaissance | Jerry Brotton | 27 April 2006 | The Renaissance Bazaar: From the Silk Road to Michelangelo, 2002 |
| 149 | Anglicanism | Mark Chapman | 22 June 2006 | religion |
| 150 | The Roman Empire | Christopher Kelly | 24 August 2006 |
| 151 | Photography | Steven Edwards | 24 August 2006 |
| 152 | Psychiatry | Tom Burns | 21 September 2006 25 October 2018 (2nd ed.) | psychology |
| 153 | Existentialism | Thomas Flynn | 12 October 2006 | philosophy |
| 154 | The First World War | Michael Howard | 25 January 2007 | Non-VSI, 2002 |
| 155 | Fundamentalism | Malise Ruthven | 25 January 2007 | Fundamentalism: The Search for Meaning, 2004 |
| 156 | Economics | Partha Dasgupta | 22 February 2007 |
| 157 | International Migration | Khalid Koser | 22 February 2007 23 June 2016 (2nd ed.) |
| 158 | Newton | Rob Iliffe | 25 January 2007 |
| 159 | Chaos | Lenny Smith | 22 February 2007 |
| 160 | African History | John Parker, Richard Rathbone | 22 March 2007 |
| 161 | Racism | Ali Rattansi | 22 March 2007 |
| 162 | Kabbalah | Joseph Dan | 30 August 2007 | Non-VSI, 2006 | religion |
| 163 | Human Rights | Andrew Clapham | 28 June 2007 1 February 2016 (2nd ed.) |
| 164 | International Relations | Paul Wilkinson Christian Reus-Smit | 26 July 2007 23 April 2020 (different author) |
| 165 | The American Presidency | Charles O. Jones | 11 October 2007 23 June 2016 (2nd ed.) |
| 166 | The Great Depression and The New Deal | Eric Rauchway | 24 April 2008 |
| 167 | Classical Mythology | Helen Morales | 23 August 2007 | religion |
| 168 | The New Testament as Literature | Kyle Keefer | 27 November 2008 | religion |
| 169 | American Political Parties and Elections | L. Sandy Maisel | 27 September 2007 23 June 2016 (2nd ed.) | politics |
| 170 | Bestsellers | John Sutherland | 25 October 2007 |
| 171 | Geopolitics | Klaus Dodds | 25 October 2007 26 June 2014 (2nd ed.) 25 July 2019 (3rd ed.) | politics |
| 172 | Antisemitism | Steven Beller | 22 November 2007 1 December 2015 (2nd ed.) |
| 173 | Game Theory | Ken Binmore | 25 October 2007 |
| 174 | HIV/AIDS | Alan Whiteside | 24 January 2008 24 November 2016 (2nd ed.) |
| 175 | Documentary Film | Patricia Aufderheide | 24 January 2008 |
| 176 | Modern China | Rana Mitter | 28 February 2008 1 April 2016 (2nd ed.) |
| 177 | The Quakers | Pink Dandelion | 28 February 2008 | religion |
| 178 | German Literature | Nicholas Boyle | 28 February 2008 |
| 179 | Nuclear Weapons | Joseph M. Siracusa | 20 March 2008 23 April 2015 (2nd ed.) 24 September 2020 (3rd ed.) |
| 180 | Law | Raymond Wacks | 27 March 2008 1 February 2016 (2nd ed.) |
| 181 | The Old Testament | Michael Coogan | 22 May 2008 | religion |
| 182 | Galaxies | John Gribbin | 27 March 2008 |
| 183 | Mormonism | Richard Bushman | 26 June 2008 | religion |
| 184 | Religion in America | Timothy Beal | 25 September 2008 | religion |
| 185 | Geography | John A. Matthews, David T. Herbert | 22 May 2008 |
| 186 | The Meaning of Life | Terry Eagleton | 24 April 2008 | Non-VSI, 2007 | philosophy |
| 187 | Sexuality | Veronique Mottier | 24 April 2008 |
| 188 | Nelson Mandela | Elleke Boehmer | 17 July 2008 |
| 189 | Science and Religion | Thomas Dixon | 24 July 2008 |
| 190 | Relativity | Russell Stannard | 24 July 2008 | physics |
| 191 | The History of Medicine | William Bynum | 31 July 2008 |
| 192 | Citizenship | Richard Bellamy | 25 September 2008 |
| 193 | The History of Life | Michael J. Benton | 27 November 2008 |
| 194 | Memory | Jonathan K. Foster | 6 November 2008 |
| 195 | Autism | Uta Frith | 23 October 2008 |
| 196 | Statistics | David J. Hand | 23 October 2008 | mathematics |
| 197 | Scotland | Rab Houston | 27 November 2008 |
| 198 | Catholicism | Gerald O'Collins | 27 November 2008 25 May 2017 (2nd ed.) | religion |
| 199 | The United Nations | Jussi M. Hanhimäki | 30 October 2008 2 June 2015 (2nd ed.) |
| 200 | Free Speech | Nigel Warburton | 26 February 2009 |
| 201 | The Apocryphal Gospels | Paul Foster | 26 February 2009 | religion |
| 202 | Modern Japan | Christopher Goto-Jones | 23 April 2009 |
| 203 | Lincoln | Allen C. Guelzo | 26 February 2009 |
| 204 | Superconductivity | Stephen J. Blundell | 28 May 2009 | physics |
| 205 | Nothing | Frank Close | 25 June 2009 | The Void, 2007 |
| 206 | Biography | Hermione Lee | 9 July 2009 |
| 207 | The Soviet Union | Stephen Lovell | 23 July 2009 |
| 208 | Writing and Script | Andrew Robinson | 27 August 2009 |
| 209 | Communism | Leslie Holmes | 27 August 2009 |
| 210 | Fashion | Rebecca Arnold | 22 October 2009 |
| 211 | Forensic Science | Jim Fraser | 25 February 2010 |
| 212 | Puritanism | Francis J. Bremer | 24 September 2009 | religion |
| 213 | The Reformation | Peter Marshall | 22 October 2009 | religion |
| 214 | Thomas Aquinas | Fergus Kerr | 5 November 2009 | religion |
| 215 | Deserts | Nick Middleton | 26 November 2009 |
| 216 | The Norman Conquest | George Garnett | 26 November 2009 |
| 217 | Biblical Archaeology | Eric H. Cline | 26 November 2009 |
| 218 | The Reagan Revolution | Gil Troy | 3 December 2009 |
| 219 | The Book of Mormon | Terryl Givens | 21 January 2010 | religion |
| 220 | Islamic History | Adam J. Silverstein | 21 January 2010 |
| 221 | Privacy | Raymond Wacks | 21 January 2010 26 March 2015 (2nd ed.) |
| 222 | Neoliberalism | Manfred Steger, Ravi K. Roy | 21 January 2010 28 January 2021 (2nd ed.) |
| 223 | Progressivism | Walter Nugent | 25 February 2010 |
| 224 | Epidemiology | Rodolfo Saracci | 25 February 2010 |
| 225 | Information | Luciano Floridi | 25 February 2010 |
| 226 | The Laws of Thermodynamics | Peter Atkins | 25 March 2010 | Four Laws That Drive the Universe, 2007 | physics |
| 227 | Innovation | Mark Dodgson, David Gann | 25 March 2010 23 August 2018 (2nd ed.) |
| 228 | Witchcraft | Malcolm Gaskill | 25 March 2010 |
| 229 | The New Testament | Luke Timothy Johnson | 22 April 2010 | religion |
| 230 | French Literature | John D. Lyons | 22 April 2010 |
| 231 | Film Music | Kathryn Kalinak | 27 May 2010 |
| 232 | Druids | Barry Cunliffe | 27 May 2010 |
| 233 | German Philosophy | Andrew Bowie | 27 May 2010 | philosophy |
| 234 | Advertising | Winston Fletcher | 24 June 2010 |
| 235 | Forensic Psychology | David Canter | 17 June 2010 |
| 236 | Modernism | Christopher Butler | 29 July 2010 | philosophy |
| 237 | Leadership | Keith Grint | 29 July 2010 |
| 238 | Christian Ethics | D. Stephen Long | 29 July 2010 |
| 239 | Tocqueville | Harvey Mansfield | 24 June 2010 |
| 240 | Landscapes and Geomorphology | Andrew Goudie, Heather Viles | 26 August 2010 |
| 241 | Spanish Literature | Jo Labanyi | 26 August 2010 |
| 242 | Diplomacy | Joseph M. Siracusa | 26 August 2010 |
| 243 | North American Indians | Theda Perdue, Michael D. Green | 26 August 2010 |
| 244 | The U.S. Congress | Donald Ritchie | 10 June 2010 22 September 2016 (2nd ed.) |
| 245 | Romanticism | Michael Ferber | 23 September 2010 |
| 246 | Utopianism | Lyman Tower Sargent | 23 September 2010 |
| 247 | The Blues | Elijah Wald | 24 June 2010 |
| 248 | Keynes | Robert Skidelsky | 7 October 2010 |
| 249 | English Literature | Jonathan Bate | 7 October 2010 |
| 250 | Agnosticism | Robin LePoidevin | 28 October 2010 |
| 251 | Aristocracy | William Doyle | 25 November 2010 |
| 252 | Martin Luther | Scott H. Hendrix | 21 October 2010 |
| 253 | Michael Faraday | Frank A.J.L. James | 25 November 2010 |
| 254 | Planets | David A. Rothery | 25 November 2010 |
| 255 | Pentecostalism | William K. Kay | 27 January 2011 | religion |
| 256 | Humanism | Stephen Law | 27 January 2011 |
| 257 | Folk Music | Mark Slobin | 24 February 2011 |
| 258 | Late Antiquity | Gillian Clark | 24 February 2011 |
| 259 | Genius | Andrew Robinson | 24 February 2011 |
| 260 | Numbers | Peter M. Higgins | 24 February 2011 | mathematics |
| 261 | Muhammad | Jonathan A.C. Brown | 24 March 2011 | religion |
| 262 | Beauty | Roger Scruton | 24 March 2011 | Non-VSI, 2009 |
| 263 | Critical Theory | Stephen Eric Bronner | 5 May 2011 26 October 2017 (2nd ed.) |
| 264 | Organizations | Mary Jo Hatch | 24 March 2011 |
| 265 | Early Music | Thomas Forrest Kelly | 9 June 2011 |
| 266 | The Scientific Revolution | Lawrence M. Principe | 28 April 2011 |
| 267 | Cancer | Nick James | 26 May 2011 |
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