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England Atomized
The Making of Modern English Society Vol. I Reformation to Industrial Revolution 1530-1780
by Christopher Hill
The Making of Modern English Society Vol. II Industry and Empire 1750 to the Present Day
by G.J. Hobsbawm
February 13, 1969 issue
All the Way with Henry the K
“He was arguably the most atrocious tyrant who ever sat on the English throne.”
Henry VIII
by J.J. Scarisbrick
September 12, 1968 issue
The Last Whig
The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century: Religion, the Reformation and Social Change
by H.R. Trevor-Roper
June 6, 1968 issue
A Hectic Revolution
The Elizabethan Puritan Movement
by Patrick Collinson
Commonwealth and Protectorate; The English Civil War and Its Aftermath
by Ivan Roots
The Fifth Monarchy Men
by P.G. Rogers
January 4, 1968 issue
Tough Job
Henry Plantagenet
by Richard Barber
Cast of Ravens
by Beatrice White
William III and the Defense of European Liberty
by Stephen B. Baxter
George the Magnificent: A Portrait of King George IV
by Joanna Richardson
June 29, 1967 issue
Habsburg Espionage
The Secret Diplomacy of the Habsburgs, 1598-1625
by Charles Howard Carter
June 17, 1965 issue
Spoiled Kings
The Tragedy of Charles II in the years 1630-1660
by Hester W. Chapman
The Stuarts in Love
by Maurice Ashley
November 19, 1964 issue
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