December 2019 Issue Elizabeth Goldring How Did Their Gardens Grow? Gardens for Gloriana: Wealth, Splendour and Design in the Elizabethan Garden By Jane Whitaker LR
July 2019 Issue John Stubbs Playwright with a Cause? Shakespeare and the Resistance: The Earl of Southampton, the Essex Rebellion, and the Poems that Challenged Tudor Tyranny By Clare Asquith LR
November 2018 Issue Alexandra Gajda No Longer the Golden Boy Patriot or Traitor: The Life and Death of Sir Walter Ralegh By Anna Beer
April 2016 Issue Robert Irwin Eastern Promises This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World By Jerry Brotton LR
May 2015 Issue Anna Whitelock Machiavellian Queen? Elizabeth I: Renaissance Prince – A Biography By Lisa Hilton Elizabeth I and Her Circle By Susan Doran LR
August 2008 Issue Lucy Wooding For Queen and Country Burghley: William Cecil at the Court of Elizabeth I By Stephen Alford LR
April 2006 Issue Allan Massie Sympathy For A Devil Elizabeth’s Spy Master: Francis Walsingham and the Secret War that Saved England By Robert Hutchinson LR
April 2005 Issue Frank McLynn Year of the Sea Dog England and the Spanish Armada: The Necessary Quarrel By James McDermott LR
November 2012 Issue Peter Marshall Occult Following The Arch-Conjuror of England: John Dee By Glyn Parry LR
April 2014 Issue John Cooper Vaux A-Mercy God’s Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England By Jessie Childs LR
February 2013 Issue Paul Lay English Bullies, Spanish Bullion Elizabeth’s Sea Dogs: How the English became the Scourge of the Seas By Hugh Bicheno LR
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