Simon Sebag Montefiore

Colossus who Married His Best Friend’s Moll

Peter the Great: A Biography

By Lindsey Hughes

LR

October 2017 Issue

Anna Keay

Hunt of the Son

To Catch a King: Charles II’s Great Escape

By Charles Spencer

March 2017 Issue

David Gelber

The Woman Who Would Be King

Njinga of Angola: Africa’s Warrior Queen

By Linda M Heywood

LR

May 2016 Issue

Linda Porter

Like Father, Like Son

The Last Royal Rebel: The Life and Death of James, Duke of Monmouth

By Anna Keay

Charles II: The Star King

By Clare Jackson

LR

December 2015 Issue

Anne Somerset

How to Poison a King

The Murder of King James I

By Alastair Bellany & Thomas Cogswell

LR

October 2003 Issue

Douglas Johnson

Cut-Throat Courtiers

The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV

LR

April 2004 Issue

Geordie Greig

The Miniature Monarch

Christina, Queen of Sweden: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric

By Veronica Buckley

LR

February 2009 Issue

Adrian Tinniswood

Days of Shaking

The English Civil Wars 1640–1660

By Blair Worden

LR

August 2008 Issue

Jonathan Sumption

‘Can One Save a King Who is on Trial?’

A History of Political Trials from Charles I to Saddam Hussein

By John Laughland

LR

August 2008 Issue

John Adamson

A Tale of Two Houses

The Long Parliament of Charles II

By Annabel Patterson

LR

June 2007 Issue

John Jolliffe

A King, Not A Doge

Return of the King: The Restoration of Charles II

By Charles Fitzroy

LR

March 2013 Issue

John Cooper

Power Player

The King’s Henchman: Henry Jermyn – Stuart Spymaster and Architect of the British Empire

By Anthony Adolph

LR

February 2014 Issue

John Adamson

Scots at the Top

Rebellion: Britain’s First Stuart Kings, 1567–1642

By Tim Harris

LR

August 2013 Issue

John Guy

Marriages of Inconvenience

Crown of Thistles: The Fatal Inheritance of Mary Queen of Scots

By Linda Porter

LR

November 2013 Issue

Jerry Brotton

Sale of the Century

The King’s Pictures

By Francis Haskell

LR

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