February 2024 Issue Tim Smith-Laing 350 Years of Sodom Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe: Male–Male Sexual Relations, 1400–1750 By Noel Malcolm LR
May 2021 Issue Philip Parker The Only Way is Wessex The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England By Marc Morris LR
February 2019 Issue Barnaby Crowcroft Caravans & Cat Skins The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle Ages By François-Xavier Fauvelle (Translated by Troy Tice) A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution By Toby Green
July 2018 Issue John Man Khans & Stans The History of Central Asia, Volume Four: The Age of Decline and Revival By Christopher Baumer (Translated by Christopher W Reid) LR
March 1992 Issue Ann Geneva Nancy Reagan was Following an Ancient Tradition Courting Disaster: Astrology at the English Court and University in the Later Middle Ages By Hilary M Carey LR
September 2015 Issue Robert Irwin Onward Christian Administrators How to Plan a Crusade: Reason and Religious War in the Middle Ages By Christopher Tyerman LR
December 2003 Issue Nikolai Tolstoy The Thousand Years that Forged Europe Encyclopaedia of the Middle Ages By André Vauchez, Barrie Dobson, Michael Lapidge (Edd) LR
April 2014 Issue Nicholas Vincent Up, Up and Away Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things? Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the Reformation By Robert Bartlett LR
March 2014 Issue Martin Arnold Coming to America The Northmen’s Fury: A History of the Viking World By Philip Parker LR
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