February 2018 Issue Stephen Bates Papists’ Progress The Keys and the Kingdom: The British and the Papacy from John Paul II to Francis By Catherine Pepinster LR
March 2017 Issue Damian Thompson Holy Trail The Catholics: The Church and Its People in Britain and Ireland, from the Reformation to the Present Day By Roy Hattersley LR
October 2007 Issue Edward Norman Conflict & Catholicism Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change, 1970–2000 By R F Foster Ireland: The Politics of Enmity 1789–2006 By Paul Bew LR
April 2012 Issue Edward Norman King Takes Bishop Thomas Becket: Warrior, Priest, Rebel, Victim – A 900-Year-Old Story Retold By John Guy LR
July 2012 Issue Peter Marshall Reformation Blues The Late Medieval English Church: Vitality and Vulnerability before the Break with Rome By G W Bernard LR
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