From the November 2023 Issue Boudoirs & Barricades The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748–1789 By Robert Darnton
From the June 2023 Issue Reluctant Monarchist Barnave: The Revolutionary Who Lost His Head for Marie-Antoinette By John Hardman LR
From the September 2022 Issue His Majesty the First Consul Napoleon at Peace: How to End a Revolution By William Doyle LR
From the March 2022 Issue Holy Roman Administrator Maria Theresa: The Habsburg Empress in Her Time By Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger (Translated from German by Robert Savage)
From the July 2021 Issue Night of the Guillotine The Fall of Robespierre: 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris By Colin Jones
From the May 2020 Issue Born to Marry The Habsburgs: The Rise and Fall of a World Power By Martyn Rady
From the August 2002 Issue Did They Pullulate? Virgins of Venice: Enclosed Lives and Broken Vows in the Renaissance Convent By Mary Laven
From the February 2016 Issue Divided We Stand The Holy Roman Empire: A Thousand Years of Europe’s History By Peter H Wilson LR
From the September 2015 Issue The Sword & the Flute Frederick the Great: King of Prussia By Tim Blanning
From the March 2003 Issue A Fine Ligne Prince of Europe: The Life of Charles-Joseph De Ligne, 1735-1814 By Philip Mansel LR
From the July 2003 Issue The Last Crusade Crescent and Cross: The Battle of Lepanto 1571 By Hugh Bicheno, Norman Stone (foreword) LR
From the March 2009 Issue Eyewitness To An Era Dancing to the Precipice: Lucie de La Tour du Pin and the French Revolution By Caroline Moorehead LR
From the August 2008 Issue A Tale of Two Houses The Long Parliament of Charles II By Annabel Patterson LR
From the April 2008 Issue Ruled By an Orange Going Dutch: How England Plundered Holland’s Glory By Lisa Jardine LR
From the February 2008 Issue Pursuit of the Pastoral Earls of Paradise: England and the Dream of Perfection By Adam Nicolson LR
From the September 2007 Issue Wrong But Wromantic Cavalier: A Tale of Chivalry, Passion and Great Houses By Lucy Worsley LR
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