November 2024 Issue Diane Purkiss King Oliver or Citizen Cromwell? Republic: Britain’s Revolutionary Decade, 1649–1660 By Alice Hunt LR
July 2018 Issue Adrian Tinniswood Death Became Him White King: Charles I – Traitor, Murderer, Martyr By Leanda de Lisle LR
October 2017 Issue Anna Keay Hunt of the Son To Catch a King: Charles II’s Great Escape By Charles Spencer
June 2017 Issue Tim Harris Heir Loss The Prince Who Would Be King: The Life and Death of Henry Stuart By Sarah Fraser LR
April 2017 Issue Adrian Tinniswood Grand Designs The English Conquest of Jamaica: Oliver Cromwell's Bid for Empire By Carla Gardina Pestana Oliver Cromwell: England's Protector By David Horspool
August 1996 Issue Hugh Trevor-Roper What Would Have Happened If It Had Worked The Gunpowder Plot By Antonia Fraser LR
February 2009 Issue Adrian Tinniswood Days of Shaking The English Civil Wars 1640–1660 By Blair Worden LR
August 2008 Issue Toby Barnard Brewing Troubles God’s Executioner: Oliver Cromwell and the Conquest of Ireland By Micheál O’Siochrú LR
August 2008 Issue John Adamson A Tale of Two Houses The Long Parliament of Charles II By Annabel Patterson LR
February 2008 Issue Blair Worden The Pen & the Sword God’s Fury, England’s Fire: A New History of the English Civil Wars By Michael Braddick LR
February 2008 Issue John Adamson Pursuit of the Pastoral Earls of Paradise: England and the Dream of Perfection By Adam Nicolson LR
December 2007 Issue Raymond Seitz Puritan’s Progress Pilgrims: New World Settlers and the Call of Home By Susan Hardman Moore LR
September 2007 Issue John Adamson Wrong But Wromantic Cavalier: A Tale of Chivalry, Passion and Great Houses By Lucy Worsley LR
August 2007 Issue J W M Thompson A Restoration Rogue The Plot Against Pepys By James Long and Ben Long LR
June 2007 Issue John Jolliffe A King, Not A Doge Return of the King: The Restoration of Charles II By Charles Fitzroy LR
June 2005 Issue Betka Zamoyska The Actress, the King, and Squintabella Nell Gwyn: A Biography By Charles Beauclerk LR
April 2005 Issue Selina O’Grady A Familiar World Witchfinders: A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy By Malcolm Gaskill LR
December 2012 Issue Patricia Fara You Do the Math Poor Robin’s Prophecies: A curious Almanac, and the everyday mathematics of Georgian Britain By Benjamin Wardhaugh LR
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