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
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
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
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June 2007 Issue John Jolliffe A King, Not A Doge Return of the King: The Restoration of Charles II By Charles Fitzroy 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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