June 2024 Issue John Guy Long Live the Late Queen! From Tudor to Stuart: The Regime Change from Elizabeth I to James I By Susan Doran LR
September 2023 Issue Sarah Gristwood The French Queen from Kent Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and the Marriage That Shook Europe By John Guy & Julia Fox
October 2022 Issue Mathew Lyons A Country Fit for a Queen Tudor England: A History By Lucy Wooding 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
November 2018 Issue Tim Richardson A Ffashion for Fflowers Gardens and Gardening in Early Modern England and Wales 1560–1660 By Jill Francis LR
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
November 2010 Issue Leanda de Lisle Courting Disaster Catherine of Aragon: Henry’s Spanish Queen By Giles Tremlett LR
March 2009 Issue Paul Johnson A Rum Lot House of Treason: The Rise and Fall of a Tudor Dynasty By Robert Hutchinson 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
November 2008 Issue Anne Somerset Trust Not the Physician The Sorcerer’s Tale: Faith and Fraud in Tudor England By Alec Ryrie 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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