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November 2021 Issue Stefan Bauer Waiting for the White Smoke Conclave 1559: Ippolito d’Este and the Papal Election of 1559 By Mary Hollingsworth LR
August 2018 Issue John Pollard Behind the Tiara Absolute Power: How the Pope Became the Most Influential Man in the World By Paul Collins LR
May 2018 Issue Damian Thompson On Shoreham Beach The King and the Catholics: The Fight for Rights 1829 By Antonia Fraser LR
August 2002 Issue John Adamson Did They Pullulate? Virgins of Venice: Enclosed Lives and Broken Vows in the Renaissance Convent By Mary Laven
March 2017 Issue Damian Thompson Holy Trail The Catholics: The Church and Its People in Britain and Ireland, from the Reformation to the Present Day By Roy Hattersley LR
August 1996 Issue Hugh Trevor-Roper What Would Have Happened If It Had Worked The Gunpowder Plot By Antonia Fraser LR
March 2009 Issue John Guy Defender Of The Brand Selling the Tudor Monarchy: Authority and Image in Sixteenth-Century England By Kevin Sharpe LR
August 2008 Issue Toby Barnard Brewing Troubles God’s Executioner: Oliver Cromwell and the Conquest of Ireland By Micheál O’Siochrú LR
September 2008 Issue Diarmaid MacCulloch Not That Nigh Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom By Tom Holland LR
March 2008 Issue Peter Marshall Cloistered Lives The Last Office: 1539 and the Dissolution of a Monastery By Geoffrey Moorhouse LR
April 2012 Issue Edward Norman King Takes Bishop Thomas Becket: Warrior, Priest, Rebel, Victim – A 900-Year-Old Story Retold By John Guy LR
May 2012 Issue John Guy Great Matter, Small Fry Our Man in Rome: Henry VIII & His Italian Ambassador By Catherine Fletcher LR
May 2012 Issue Nicholas Vincent Devil’s Advocates The War on Heresy: Faith and Power in Medieval Europe By R I Moore LR
July 2012 Issue Peter Marshall Reformation Blues The Late Medieval English Church: Vitality and Vulnerability before the Break with Rome By G W Bernard LR
April 2005 Issue Michael Burleigh Papal Fallacies The Pius War: Responses to the Critics of Pius XII By Joseph Bottum and David G Dalin (Ed) LR
February 2013 Issue Peter Marshall Come All Ye Faithful Trent: What Happened at the Council By John W O’Malley LR
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