From the October 2015 Issue Married to the Mob The Lost Tudor Princess: A Life of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox By Alison Weir LR
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From the July 2011 Issue A Catholic Icon The Trials of Margaret Clitherow: Persecution, Martyrdom and the Politics of Sanctity in Elizabethan England By Peter Lake and Michael Questier LR
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From the May 2012 Issue Broom for Improvement The Plantagenets: The Kings Who Made England By Dan Jones LR
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