From the June 2020 Issue The Jellyfish King Henry III: The Rise to Power and Personal Rule 1207–1258 By David Carpenter LR
From the June 2019 Issue The Man Who Would be King The Song of Simon de Montfort: England's First Revolutionary and the Death of Chivalry By Sophie Thérèse Ambler LR
From the September 2018 Issue The Devil Wears Ermine The Restless Kings: Henry II, His Sons and the Wars for the Plantagenet Crown By Nick Barratt King of the North Wind: The Life of Henry II in Five Acts By Claudia Gold LR
From the May 2012 Issue Devil’s Advocates The War on Heresy: Faith and Power in Medieval Europe By R I Moore LR
From the April 2014 Issue Up, Up and Away Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things? Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the Reformation By Robert Bartlett LR
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