March 2009 Issue John Guy Defender Of The Brand Selling the Tudor Monarchy: Authority and Image in Sixteenth-Century England By Kevin Sharpe LR
August 2008 Issue Toby Barnard Brewing Troubles God’s Executioner: Oliver Cromwell and the Conquest of Ireland By Micheál O’Siochrú LR
March 2008 Issue Peter Marshall Cloistered Lives The Last Office: 1539 and the Dissolution of a Monastery By Geoffrey Moorhouse 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
February 2013 Issue Peter Marshall Come All Ye Faithful Trent: What Happened at the Council By John W O’Malley LR
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