August 2024 Issue Edward Vallance Parliaments Not Taken The Fall: The Last Days of the English Republic By Henry Reece LR
August 2024 Issue John Adamson Killer with a Cause Oliver Cromwell: Commander in Chief By Ronald Hutton
February 2023 Issue Edward Vallance All For the Good Old Cause The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England By Jonathan Healey LR
May 2022 Issue Linda Porter Bar the Door! The Siege of Loyalty House: A Civil War Story By Jessie Childs LR
October 2021 Issue Lucy Wooding The View from Across the Channel Devil-Land: England Under Siege, 1588–1688 By Clare Jackson
February 2020 Issue Adrian Tinniswood Doing the Lord’s Work Providence Lost: The Rise & Fall of Cromwell’s Protectorate By Paul Lay LR
July 2019 Issue Edward Vallance Regicides on the Run Charles I’s Killers in America: The Lives & Afterlives of Edward Whalley & William Goffe By Matthew Jenkinson
September 2018 Issue Edward Vallance Leveller Headed The Common Freedom of the People: John Lilburne and the English Revolution By Michael Braddick 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
June 1983 Issue Christopher Hill Missed Opportunity Revolutionary Prose of the English Civil War By Howard Erskine-Hill and Graham Storey (ed) LR
February 2009 Issue Adrian Tinniswood Days of Shaking The English Civil Wars 1640–1660 By Blair Worden 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
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
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
April 2006 Issue Charles Saumarez Smith Treasure Going Cheap The Sale of the Late King’s Goods: Charles I and His Art Collection By Jerry Brotton LR
July 2012 Issue Edward Vallance The Revolution Will Not Be Realised The Road Not Taken: How Britain Narrowly Missed a Revolution By Frank McLynn LR
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