From the May 2023 Issue Northern Lights The Other Renaissance: From Copernicus to Shakespeare By Paul Strathern LR
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From the May 2017 Issue Ringing the Changes Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation By Peter Marshall
From the August 2008 Issue For Queen and Country Burghley: William Cecil at the Court of Elizabeth I By Stephen Alford LR
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