April 2022 Issue Mathew Lyons They Courted Trouble The House of Dudley: The Fall of England’s Most Scandalous Family By Joanne Paul LR
April 2020 Issue Linda Porter A Catholic & a Gentleman Mary and Philip: The Marriage of Tudor England and Habsburg Spain By Alexander Samson LR
October 2000 Issue Jane Dunn Need for Magnificence New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudors 1485–1603 By Susan Bridgen LR
February 2019 Issue Helen Hackett Head and Shoulders above the Rest Nicholas Hilliard: Life of an Artist By Elizabeth Goldring
September 2018 Issue Peter Marshall King Henry’s Henchman Thomas Cromwell: A Life By Diarmaid MacCulloch
December 2017 Issue David Gelber Filling in the Blanks Black Tudors: The Untold Story By Miranda Kaufmann LR
February 2017 Issue Jessie Childs Courting Disaster Young & Damned & Fair: The Life and Tragedy of Catherine Howard at the Court of Henry VIII By Gareth Russell LR
October 2015 Issue Leanda de Lisle Married to the Mob The Lost Tudor Princess: A Life of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox By Alison Weir LR
March 2003 Issue Anne Somerset A Royal Rivalry Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals Queens By Jane Dunn LR
February 2004 Issue Paul Johnson Good Queen Bess The Confident Hope of a Miracle: The True History of the Spanish Armada By Neil Hanson LR
February 2004 Issue Anne Somerset The Scottish Widow 'My Heart is My Own': The Life of Mary Queen of Scots By John Guy 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
August 2008 Issue Lucy Wooding For Queen and Country Burghley: William Cecil at the Court of Elizabeth I By Stephen Alford LR
March 2008 Issue Peter Marshall Cloistered Lives The Last Office: 1539 and the Dissolution of a Monastery By Geoffrey Moorhouse LR
February 2008 Issue John Adamson Pursuit of the Pastoral Earls of Paradise: England and the Dream of Perfection By Adam Nicolson LR
May 2012 Issue John Guy Great Matter, Small Fry Our Man in Rome: Henry VIII & His Italian Ambassador By Catherine Fletcher LR
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