From the July 2009 Issue Atishoo, Atishoo The Scourging Angel: The Black Death in the British Isles By Benedict Gummer LR
From the June 2008 Issue Bones and Buboes The Black Death: An Intimate History of the Plague By John Hatcher LR
From the March 2008 Issue A Very Busy Monarch A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain By Marc Morris LR
From the October 2007 Issue Devil or Demure? Katherine Swynford: The Story of John of Gaunt and His Scandalous Duchess By Alison Weir LR
From the February 2006 Issue The Missing Monarch The Perfect King: The Life of Edward III, Father of the English Nation By Ian Mortimer LR
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