May 2020 Issue John Adamson Born to Marry The Habsburgs: The Rise and Fall of a World Power By Martyn Rady
January 1995 Issue Susan Elkin Join some Necrophiles on the Great Relic Crawl Travel in Early Modern Europe By Antoni Maczak By Ursula Phillips (trans)
May 2017 Issue John Edwards Sovereign of the Seas Isabella of Castile: Europe’s First Great Queen By Giles Tremlett LR
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