From the October 2023 Issue He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands The Globemakers: The Curious Story of an Ancient Craft By Peter Bellerby
From the September 2023 Issue Alas, Poor Eadwig! The Bone Chests: Unlocking the Secrets of the Anglo-Saxons By Cat Jarman LR
From the September 2022 Issue Ghost of the Kingly Raven Lost Realms: Histories of Britain from the Romans to the Vikings By Thomas Williams LR
From the March 2022 Issue Land of Rune Yodelling Extreme North: A Cultural History By Bernd Brunner (Translated from German by Jefferson Chase) LR
From the May 2021 Issue The Only Way is Wessex The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England By Marc Morris LR
From the September 2020 Issue When Not in Rome Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe By Judith Herrin LR
From the July 2020 Issue The Barbarian at the Gate Alaric the Goth: An Outsider’s History of the Fall of Rome By Douglas Boin
From the June 2020 Issue The Silk Road & the Sandalwood Seas The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the Globe – and Globalization Began By Valerie Hansen LR
From the December 2018 Issue Between Tree Stump & Fen Citadel of the Saxons: The Rise of Early London By Rory Naismith
From the September 2017 Issue Norse to Be Reckoned With Viking Britain: An Exploration By Thomas Williams LR
From the February 2017 Issue Uneasy Lies the Head… Athelstan: The Making of England By Tom Holland Æthelred the Unready By Levi Roach LR
From the October 2016 Issue Norse Code Beyond the Northlands: Viking Voyages and the Old Norse Sagas By Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough LR
From the December 2015 Issue Mercian Hymns In the Land of Giants: Journeys through the Dark Ages By Max Adams LR
From the November 2014 Issue Making Waves The Edge of the World: How the North Sea Made Us Who We Are By Michael Pye LR
From the November 2013 Issue Whither Whiteblade? The King in the North: The Life and Times of Oswald of Northumbria By Max Adams LR
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