At the head of many a printed page of history there might well be set the words, 'There is another side to all this': and nowhere more usefully than in studies of Queen Elizabeth I. Has any historian since Lingard even professed to write about her reign dispassionately? In history that is true, all sides are heard, stating their own case. Fr. Hughes has not, of course, set out to re-write the history of the reign itself; his subject continues to be the history of the Reformation.