Lynn Barber

Murky Tale of a Man who Lacked Decorum

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By Peter Robb

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May 2017 Issue

Jonathan Beckman

For Queen & Company

London’s Triumph: Merchant Adventurers and the Tudor City

By Stephen Alford

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May 2017 Issue

John Edwards

Sovereign of the Seas

Isabella of Castile: Europe’s First Great Queen

By Giles Tremlett

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May 2017 Issue

Tim Smith-Laing

Earthly Delights

Bosch & Bruegel: From Enemy Painting to Everyday Life

By Joseph Leo Koerner

March 2017 Issue

Catherine Fletcher

Florence & the Machinator

Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli’s Lifelong Quest for Freedom

By Erica Benner

February 2017 Issue

Jessie Childs

Courting Disaster

Young & Damned & Fair: The Life and Tragedy of Catherine Howard at the Court of Henry VIII

By Gareth Russell

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February 2017 Issue

Jonathan Rée

Essays in Nobility

Montaigne: A Life

By Philippe Desan (Translated by Steven Rendall & Lisa Neal)

December 2016 Issue

Faramerz Dabhoiwala

Living the Dream

Sleep in Early Modern England

By Sasha Handley

October 2016 Issue

Anne Somerset

Iron Ladies

Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe

By Sarah Gristwood

August 2016 Issue

David Gelber

A Girdle Round about the Earth

The First Circumnavigators: Unsung Heroes of the Age of Discovery

By Harry Kelsey

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August 2016 Issue

David Ekserdjian

Talents of Two Cities

National Gallery Catalogues: The Sixteenth Century Italian Paintings – Volume III, Bologna and Ferrara

By Giorgia Mancini & Nicholas Penny

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May 1992 Issue

Bryan Appleyard

But Why did his Buttery Bills Suddenly Increase?

The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe

By Charles Nicholl

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June 2016 Issue

Peter Marshall

Reforming Spirit

Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet

By Lyndal Roper

May 2016 Issue

Peter Moore

‘Great South Land of the Holy Spirit’

The Savage Shore: Extraordinary Stories of Survival and Tragedy from the Early Voyages of Discovery

By Graham Seal

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May 2016 Issue

Susan Doran

Gloriana’s Twilight

Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years

By John Guy

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April 2016 Issue

Jonathan Keates

The Utility of Bastards

The Black Prince of Florence: The Spectacular Life and Treacherous Times of Alessandro de’ Medici

By Catherine Fletcher

April 2016 Issue

Robert Irwin

Eastern Promises

This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World

By Jerry Brotton

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March 2016 Issue

Jonathan Keates

Treasure Everywhere

The Global City: On the Streets of Renaissance Lisbon

By Annemarie Jordan Gschwend & K J P Lowe (ed)

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October 2015 Issue

Leanda de Lisle

Married to the Mob

The Lost Tudor Princess: A Life of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox

By Alison Weir

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September 2015 Issue

David Gelber

When Lisbon Ruled the Waves

Conquerors: How Portugal Seized the Indian Ocean and Forged the First Global Empire

By Roger Crowley

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