October 2000 Issue Jane Dunn Need for Magnificence New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudors 1485–1603 By Susan Bridgen LR
April 2017 Issue John Guy Crown Estates Houses of Power: The Places that Shaped the Tudor World By Simon Thurley
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
November 2010 Issue Leanda de Lisle Courting Disaster Catherine of Aragon: Henry’s Spanish Queen By Giles Tremlett LR
April 2010 Issue Peter Marshall Married To A Monster Anne Boleyn: Fatal Attractions By G W Bernard Katherine the Queen: The Remarkable Life of Katherine Parr By Linda Porter 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
September 2009 Issue Leanda de Lisle In My Ladies’ Chambers Elizabeth’s Women: The Hidden Story of the Virgin Queen By Tracy Borman 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
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
September 2012 Issue Paul Lay Games of Thrones The History of England, Volume II: Tudors By Peter Ackroyd LR
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