June 2023 Issue Nicholas Vincent The Return of the King Henry III: Reform, Rebellion, Civil War, Settlement – 1258–1272 By David Carpenter LR
December 2022 Issue Carolyne Larrington I Have Wedded Fyve! The Wife of Bath: A Biography By Marion Turner
April 2021 Issue Linda Porter This Earth, This Realm, This Castile The Red Prince: The Life of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster By Helen Carr LR
June 2020 Issue Bijan Omrani Good Rule Hunting Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy By James Hankins LR
February 1983 Issue Mary Clive Congenial Company Medieval Travellers: The Rich and Restless By Margaret Wade Labarge
September 2018 Issue Jonathan Sumption Did They Spit on the Cross? The Persecution of the Templars: Scandal, Torture, Trial By Alain Demurger (Translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan)
March 2018 Issue Lawrence Rosen Magus of the Maghreb Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography By Robert Irwin LR
December 1990 Issue Richard Cavendish A Brave Tale The Hundred Years War By Robin Neillands The Hundred Years War: Trial by Battle By Jonathan Sumption LR
August 2015 Issue John Guy When England Ruled France The Hundred Years War: Volume IV – Cursed Kings By Jonathan Sumption
December 2003 Issue Juliet Barker An Errant Knight The Flower of Chivalry: Bertrand Du Guesclin and the Hundred Years War By Richard Vernier LR
August 2004 Issue Adam LeBor Lord of the Fortunate Conjunction Tamerlane: Sword of Islan Conqueror of the World By Justin Marozzi LR
October 2004 Issue Anne Somerset A Force for Destruction Hawkwood: The Diabolical Englishman By Frances Stonor Saunders LR
July 2007 Issue Jonathan Sumption The Trouble With Goths The Fears of Henry IV: The Life of England’s Self-Made King By Ian Mortimer LR
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