David A H B Taylor

The Sport of Kings

Mistresses: Sex and Scandal at the Court of Charles II

By Linda Porter

LR

November 1979 Issue

Ragnhild Hatton

Charles II

King Charles II

By Antonia Fraser

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

Lucy Moore

Contempt of Court

Love, Madness, & Scandal: The Life of Frances Coke Villiers, Viscountess Purbeck

By Johanna Luthman

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June 2017 Issue

Tim Harris

Heir Loss

The Prince Who Would Be King: The Life and Death of Henry Stuart

By Sarah Fraser

LR

May 2016 Issue

Linda Porter

Like Father, Like Son

The Last Royal Rebel: The Life and Death of James, Duke of Monmouth

By Anna Keay

Charles II: The Star King

By Clare Jackson

LR

August 1996 Issue

Hugh Trevor-Roper

What Would Have Happened If It Had Worked

The Gunpowder Plot

By Antonia Fraser

LR

March 2003 Issue

Frank McLynn

The Wisest Fool in Christendom

The Cradle King: A Life of James VI and I

By Alan Stewart

LR

February 2009 Issue

Adrian Tinniswood

Days of Shaking

The English Civil Wars 1640–1660

By Blair Worden

LR

August 2008 Issue

John Adamson

A Tale of Two Houses

The Long Parliament of Charles II

By Annabel Patterson

LR

April 2008 Issue

Adrian Tinniswood

Romance Story

Read My Heart: Dorothy Osborne and Sir William Temple – A Love Story in the Age of Revolution

By Jane Dunn

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

March 2013 Issue

John Cooper

Power Player

The King’s Henchman: Henry Jermyn – Stuart Spymaster and Architect of the British Empire

By Anthony Adolph

LR

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