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December 2018 Issue Anne Somerset Marriage Plots Rival Queens: The Betrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots By Kate Williams Devices & Desires: Bess of Hardwick and the Building of Elizabethan England By Kate Hubbard LR
July 2018 Issue Glenn Richardson Architect of State Francis I: The Maker of Modern France By Leonie Frieda LR
September 1998 Issue Anthony Blond Too Much to Do The Grand Strategy of Philip II By Geoffrey Parker LR
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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November 2010 Issue Leanda de Lisle Courting Disaster Catherine of Aragon: Henry’s Spanish Queen By Giles Tremlett LR
March 2009 Issue John Guy Defender Of The Brand Selling the Tudor Monarchy: Authority and Image in Sixteenth-Century England By Kevin Sharpe LR
December 2008 Issue Anne Somerset Doomed From Birth The Sisters Who Would Be Queen: The Tragedy of Katherine, Mary and Lady Jane Grey By Leanda de Lisle LR
March 2008 Issue Peter Marshall Cloistered Lives The Last Office: 1539 and the Dissolution of a Monastery By Geoffrey Moorhouse LR
February 2014 Issue John Adamson Scots at the Top Rebellion: Britain’s First Stuart Kings, 1567–1642 By Tim Harris LR
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