April 2020 Issue Linda Porter A Catholic & a Gentleman Mary and Philip: The Marriage of Tudor England and Habsburg Spain By Alexander Samson LR
December 2018 Issue Anne Somerset Marriage Plots Rival Queens: The Betrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots By Kate Williams Devices & Desires: Bess of Hardwick and the Building of Elizabethan England By Kate Hubbard LR
October 2016 Issue Anne Somerset Iron Ladies Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe By Sarah Gristwood
May 2015 Issue Anna Whitelock Machiavellian Queen? Elizabeth I: Renaissance Prince – A Biography By Lisa Hilton Elizabeth I and Her Circle By Susan Doran LR
November 2010 Issue Leanda de Lisle Courting Disaster Catherine of Aragon: Henry’s Spanish Queen By Giles Tremlett 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
December 2008 Issue Anne Somerset Doomed From Birth The Sisters Who Would Be Queen: The Tragedy of Katherine, Mary and Lady Jane Grey By Leanda de Lisle LR
March 2008 Issue Peter Marshall Cloistered Lives The Last Office: 1539 and the Dissolution of a Monastery By Geoffrey Moorhouse LR
February 2014 Issue John Adamson Scots at the Top Rebellion: Britain’s First Stuart Kings, 1567–1642 By Tim Harris LR
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