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Levi Roach
Who’ll Take the Helm?
The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream
By Charles Spencer
July 2020 Issue
John Guy
Mystery of the Manuscript
The Book in the Cathedral: The Last Relic of Thomas Becket
By Christopher de Hamel
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July 2019 Issue
John Keay
Imprints of Persia
India in the Persianate Age, 1000–1765
By Richard M Eaton
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June 2018 Issue
Christopher Tyerman
Occupational Hazards
The Siege of Acre, 1189–1191: Saladin, Richard the Lionheart, and the Battle That Decided the Third Crusade
By John D Hosler
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Robert Irwin
Knight Fever
The Templars: The Rise and Fall of God’s Holy Warriors
By Dan Jones
October 2015 Issue
R I Moore
Doubting Thomas
The Murder of William of Norwich: The Origins of the Blood Libel in Medieval Europe
By E M Rose
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June 2008 Issue
Richard Barber
Bones and Buboes
The Black Death: An Intimate History of the Plague
By John Hatcher
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Richard Barber
A Very Busy Monarch
A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain
By Marc Morris
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May 2014 Issue
Leanda de Lisle
Mice, Locusts & Sodomy
Defending the City of God: A Medieval Queen, the First Crusades, and the Quest for Peace in Jerusalem
By Sharan Newman
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April 2012 Issue
Edward Norman
King Takes Bishop
Thomas Becket: Warrior, Priest, Rebel, Victim – A 900-Year-Old Story Retold
By John Guy
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May 2012 Issue
Nicholas Vincent
Devil’s Advocates
The War on Heresy: Faith and Power in Medieval Europe
By R I Moore
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May 2012 Issue
Leanda De Lisle
Broom for Improvement
The Plantagenets: The Kings Who Made England
By Dan Jones
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September 2012 Issue
Robert Irwin
Church Militant
The Knights Hospitaller in the Levant, c 1070–1309
By Jonathan Riley-Smith
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