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
From the February 2007 Issue The Hope of the Realm Edward VI: The Lost King of England By Chris Skidmore LR
From the October 2006 Issue Poetry, Treason, and Plot Henry VIII’s Last Victim: The Life and Times of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey By Jessie Childs LR
From the December 2005 Issue God’s Lieutenant on the Road to Reform The King’s Reformation: Henry VIII and the Remaking of the English Church By G W Bernard LR
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