September 2023 Issue Chris Given-Wilson Enter Joan of Arc The Hundred Years War, Volume V: Triumph and Illusion By Jonathan Sumption LR
December 2021 Issue Sarah Dunant Scholar in Arms The Light of Italy: The Life and Times of Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino By Jane Stevenson LR
October 2021 Issue Dmitri Levitin How Philology Changed the World The Italian Renaissance and the Origins of the Modern Humanities: An Intellectual History, 1400–1800 By Christopher S Celenza LR
September 2020 Issue Davíd Carrasco Romancing the Scribe Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs By Camilla Townsend
April 1995 Issue Richard Acton A Blue Robe For Poor Henry Lancaster & York: The Wars of the Roses By Alison Weir LR
December 2019 Issue Jonathan Sumption Bringing Up the Bodies The Brothers York: An English Tragedy By Thomas Penn Richard III: The Self-Made King By Michael Hicks LR
October 2019 Issue Anne Curry How to Lose Two Crowns Shadow King: The Life and Death of Henry VI By Lauren Johnson LR
October 2000 Issue Jane Dunn Need for Magnificence New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudors 1485–1603 By Susan Bridgen LR
July 2019 Issue Eric Ormsby Straw Men in Mufti Useful Enemies: Islam and the Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450–1750 By Noel Malcolm LR
April 2017 Issue Felipe Fernández-Armesto Handing over the Keys to Paradise The Moor's Last Stand: How Seven Centuries of Muslim Rule in Spain Came to an End By Elizabeth Drayson LR
August 2016 Issue Jonathan Sumption Man of Few Words Henry V: The Conscience of a King By Malcolm Vale LR
August 2015 Issue John Guy When England Ruled France The Hundred Years War: Volume IV – Cursed Kings By Jonathan Sumption
December 2004 Issue C A R Hills The Whole World for Their Grave A History of Portuguese Overseas Expansion 1400-1668 By Malyn Newitt LR
August 2008 Issue Allan Massie A Bellicose Bibliophile The Raven King: Matthias Corvinus and the Fate of his Lost Library By Marcus Tanner LR
July 2007 Issue Jonathan Sumption The Trouble With Goths The Fears of Henry IV: The Life of England’s Self-Made King By Ian Mortimer LR
May 2012 Issue Timothy Brook Raise the Holy Sail Columbus and the Quest for Jerusalem By Carol Delaney The Last Crusade: The Epic Voyages of Vasco da Gama By Nigel Cliff LR
September 2012 Issue Linda Porter Wearing the Breeches Blood Sisters: The Hidden Lives of the Women Behind the Wars of the Roses By Sarah Gristwood LR
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