From the November 2005 Issue Remember, Remember Gunpowder Plots: A Celebration of 400 Years of Bonfire Night By Brenda Buchanan, David Cannadine, Justin Champion, David Cressy, Pauline Croft, Antonia Fraser, Mike Jay God’s Secret Agents: Queen Elizabeth’s Forbidden Priests and the Hatching of the Gunpowder Plot By Alice Hogge LR
From the August 2005 Issue Chivalry in a Prison Cell Malory: The Life and Times of King Arthur’s Chronicler By Christina Hardyment LR
From the May 2005 Issue Gloriana Succeeded After Elizabeth: How James King of Scots Won the Crown of England in 1603 By Leanda de Lisle LR
From the February 2005 Issue A Life of Experiment Mary Wollstonecraft: A New Genus By Lyndall Gordon LR
From the April 2005 Issue A Familiar World Witchfinders: A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy By Malcolm Gaskill LR
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