OCTOBER

6 October: Althorp Literary Festival – Jessie will be talking to Helen Castor about Elizabeth I (4-5pm), and to Leanda de Lisle and Nadine Akkerman about the seventeenth century (5.30-6.30pm). click for info

SEPTEMBER

REVIEW: Thomas Cromwell: A Life by Diarmaid MacCulloch for the Guardian

JULY

PODCAST: BBC History Extra podcast about Thomas Tresham and his extraordinary building, Rushton Triangular Lodge, in Northamptonshire. Accompanies the History Explorer article in BBC History Magazine 

REVIEW: Invisible Agents by Nadine Akkerman for the Telegraph

JUNE

REVIEW: The King and the Catholics by Antonia Fraser for the Guardian.

JANUARY

REVIEW: White King: Charles I – Traitor, Murderer, King by Leanda de Lisle for the Daily Telegraph