From the December 2018 Issue Marriage Plots Rival Queens: The Betrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots By Kate Williams Devices & Desires: Bess of Hardwick and the Building of Elizabethan England By Kate Hubbard LR
From the July 2017 Issue The Heat is On One Hot Summer: Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858 By Rosemary Ashton LR
From the August 1992 Issue In Many Ways our Henry was an Incurable Romantic The Six Wives of Henry VIII By Antonia Fraser LR
From the October 2016 Issue Iron Ladies Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe By Sarah Gristwood
From the December 2015 Issue How to Poison a King The Murder of King James I By Alastair Bellany & Thomas Cogswell LR
From the February 2004 Issue The Scottish Widow 'My Heart is My Own': The Life of Mary Queen of Scots By John Guy LR
From the October 2004 Issue A Force for Destruction Hawkwood: The Diabolical Englishman By Frances Stonor Saunders LR
From the October 2011 Issue Man in the Know The Queen’s Agent: Francis Walsingham at the Court of Elizabeth I By John Cooper LR
From the December 2008 Issue Doomed From Birth The Sisters Who Would Be Queen: The Tragedy of Katherine, Mary and Lady Jane Grey By Leanda de Lisle LR
From the November 2008 Issue Trust Not the Physician The Sorcerer’s Tale: Faith and Fraud in Tudor England By Alec Ryrie LR
From the June 2014 Issue Diamonds Aren’t a Girl’s Best Friend How to Ruin a Queen: Marie Antoinette, the Stolen Diamonds and the Scandal that Shook the French Throne By Jonathan Beckman
From the February 2007 Issue An Agent Of Tyranny Thomas Cromwell: The Rise and Fall of Henry VIII’s Most Notorious Minister By Robert Hutchinson LR
From the April 2014 Issue Out, Damned Nightspot Shakespeare and the Countess: The Battle that Gave Birth to the Globe By Chris Laoutaris LR
From the August 2013 Issue Years of Magical Thinking Witches: A Tale of Sorcery, Scandal and Seduction in Jacobean England By Tracy Borman LR
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