From the May 2022 Issue Bar the Door! The Siege of Loyalty House: A Civil War Story By Jessie Childs LR
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From the November 2017 Issue Recipes for Survival Lady Fanshawe’s Receipt Book: The Life and Times of a Civil War Heroine By Lucy Moore LR
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From the May 2011 Issue The Forgotten Queen of Tudor England Katherine Parr: Complete Works and Correspondence By Janel Mueller (ed) LR
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From the November 2013 Issue Tending the White Rose Elizabeth of York: The First Tudor Queen By Alison Weir LR
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